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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly

Harvard Business Review

Retail pricing evolves into what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has termed a " confusopoly :" rather than compete on price, outlets start to engage in strategies to make price comparisons more difficult. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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