Jock's Place - Tescopoly and rent seeking - Comments

Well...

Jock — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:53:13 +0000

...I know there are Lib Dems involved in the "Tescopoly" campaign. They probably need informing/reminding that the party already has policy that would help incidentally rebalance the retail landscape a little and fairly at that...:)

Tescopoly and rent seeking

Tom Papworth — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:20:52 +0000

How did I know you were going to mention Land Value Taxation? ;o)

Tescopoly and rent seeking

Jock — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:48:42 +0000

I'm very busy at the moment trying to get a web database up for my old school former pupils' society, but I noticed today a lot of discussion about Tesco and its market dominance.

Personally, I patronize the Co-op and local shops as much as possible and am in some ways fortunate to be able to do so, and I abhor monopoly and monopsony, and it is clear that Tesco, ASDA and others are getting pretty close to such a position if they haven't already. But there's a simple little step that could at a stroke force Tesco and others to account properly for some of the externalities of out of town shopping...