The Impact of Supermarkets on Farm Suppliers

Griffith, Garry R.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8462.2004.00334.x

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“…To gain clarity and insight into the connotations associated with M&A activity, we interviewed 19 specialty crop producers. While much of the accumulated empirical evidence lacks consensus on the effects of retail consolidation on farmers, there is an abundance of anecdotal testimonies that confirm M&A activity can have serious negative implications [30]. Our discussions with specialty crop growers further support this finding.…”

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Retail Mergers and Acquisitions, and Specialty Crop Producers: Evidence from California

Volpe

Alman²,

Cai

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Relatively little is known about the economic impact of mergers and acquisitions in the food retail industry on upstream agricultural producers. We study the potential impact of the 2014 merger between Safeway and Albertsons on California specialty crop growers. There is a consensus among the 19 growers that we interviewed that merger events are unfavorable since they lead to uncertainty, lower prices, lost revenue, and higher transaction costs. State-level analysis of USDA crop price data provides support for these contentions.

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Retail Mergers and Acquisitions, and Specialty Crop Producers: Evidence from California

Volpe

Alman²,

Cai

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…Due to the scale of their operations and their territorial expansion, supermarkets and large FSE were able to impose predatory contracts, “promotion prices,” and unilateral price changes on the PPS&I. They also transferred the cost of their inventories to their providers and could make them assume legal responsibility whenever there were problems of contamination in fresh fruits or vegetables (Dimitri, Tegene, & Kaufman, ; Dixon, ; Griffith, ; Reardon & Berdegue, ). This positioning of the retailers allowed them to obtain an “oligopolistic rent” and expand into so‐called developing nations, where they obtained higher profit rates (Gibbon & Ponte, ; Lawrence & Burch, ).…”

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What socioenvironmental impacts did 35 years of export agriculture have in Mexico? (1980–2014): A transnational agri‐food field analysis

González

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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In this article, I propose to study environmental degradation and the deterioration of the health of workers and other inhabitants in regions of Mexico where intensive fruit and vegetable production for export has been developed. My proposition is that to understand the unsustainability of such agricultural practices in all their complexity, it is necessary to analyse historically the total agri‐food field of relations established by producers, distributors, and consumers in codependency with the natural environment. This analysis of the agri‐food field allows a multidimensional and multiscale study to be conducted of the hierarchical distribution of power and of economic benefits among the different social actors of the food system. This analysis also allowed us to study the development of the capitalist regime without going into the dichotomy of centre and periphery and to propose that it is a decentralized process with a multiplicity of locations that operates on the basis of mutual associations and influences between human and non‐human elements, with the active participation of a great variety of independent, collective, and institutional actors who have differentiated motivations, ranges of power and scales of value. The case study of Mexican export agriculture was the result of long‐term research based on a wide review of regional studies, field work statistics, and archives in Mexico and the United States. This cross‐border study makes it possible to identify asymmetrical transnational relations in a context in which the Mexican government has renounced its territorial and agri‐food sovereignty and Mexican consumers face greater vulnerability.

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“…La posible existencia de poder de negociación de los distribuidores frente a los fabricantes ha sido uno de los elementos de atención preferente en los estudios del sector realizados en países como Australia o el Reino Unido (Griffith 2004, Competition Commission 2008. En el caso español, el informe más completo lo constituye el informe que la CNC (2011) dedicó esta cuestión, en el que se constata que en los últimos años la distribución ha aumentado su poder de negociación frente a los fabricantes.…”

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Poder de mercado en la distribución alimentaria: consecuencias y causas

Alda¹

2014

CICE

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The Impact of Supermarkets on Farm Suppliers

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Retail Mergers and Acquisitions, and Specialty Crop Producers: Evidence from California

Retail Mergers and Acquisitions, and Specialty Crop Producers: Evidence from California

What socioenvironmental impacts did 35 years of export agriculture have in Mexico? (1980–2014): A transnational agri‐food field analysis

Poder de mercado en la distribución alimentaria: consecuencias y causas

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