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Abstract
As seen in many developing countries, concentration and globalization have substantially increased in
food retailing in Turkey. Foreign direct investment, incentives to reduce informal economy through modern retailing,
income, education, economic crises and urbanization are the main drivers for structural change of retail supply
chain. Market shares of global retailers have increased in general and also food sub-sectors. The restructuring and
concentration in food retailing have changed the marketing system and conditions facing firms. Concentration is also
expected to increase in the future. With increasing concentration, anti-competitive practices has appeared in the
food supply chain in Turkey: listing fees, shelf fees, advertising and announcing fee, discount pressure, unconditional
product restoration and forces for own private label product package have been commonly used anti-competitive
practices. Based on the interviews and literature survey and news gathered from newspapers, it is found that several
anti-competitive practices are executed by supermarket in Turkey when these practices are compared with the anticompetitive
practices determined by the United Kingdom Competition Commission (2000). It is observed that at the
margin 16 of 52 practices are executed by supermarkets against the suppliers. Moreover, price flexing and sales
below cost can be reflecting the monopoly power in consumer market segment.