@article{Kaufman:157042,
      recid = {157042},
      author = {Kaufman, Phillip R. and Newton, Doris J. and Handy,  Charles R.},
      title = {Grocery Retailing Concentration in Metropolitan Areas,  1954-82},
      address = {1993-08},
      number = {1488-2016-124783},
      series = {Technical Bulletin},
      pages = {53},
      year = {1993},
      abstract = {Grocery retailing concentration in U.S. cities increased  on average in 1982,
continuing a long-term trend. The  all-SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical
Area) average  four-firm concentration level in grocery retailing rose to  58.3
percent in 1982, compared with 56.3 percent in 1977,  the previous census year.
These results were obtained from  a special tabulation of the 1982 Census of Retail
Trade,  previously unpublished. The four-firm concentration level  ranged from 27
percent in Appleton, WI, to 90.6 percent in  Iowa City, IA, in 1982. Although
concentration levels have  generally increased since 1954, considerable diversity  in
concentration change of individual metropolitan areas  (SMSA's) was found. This
report analyzes grocery retailing  market concentration in 1982, as well as changes
in  concentration from 1954 to 1982.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/157042},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.157042},
}