Sentences with phrase «local monopolies»
"Local monopolies" refers to situations where a single company or provider has exclusive control over a particular product, service, or industry within a specific geographic area. This means that consumers in that area have limited or no choice in selecting alternative options, resulting in less competition and potentially higher prices. Full definition
This is because there are plenty of locations where ASDA and Sainsbury are the dominant local players and the authorities would likely be wary of allowing the creation of local monopolies.»
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Before the rise of e-commerce, many brick and mortar retailers enjoyed local monopolies or oligopolies based solely on geography.
11.30 am Matt Sinclair on CentreRight fires back against Nick Herbert: Supermarkets confront a million little local monopolies and cut prices for customers, allowing the income of the poorest Britons to go a little further each time
Local monopolies clearly allow many schools to coast on their current trajectories without trying new approaches or investing more effort.
It is one of the only industries that are allowed to maintain local monopolies!
So do the business practices of telecoms: AT&T and Verizon have been accused in lawsuits and other legal actions of bilking the system of millions of dollars, while many smaller companies have taken advantage of local monopolies and generous federal subsidies.
I'm not the only one who has noted that the American newspapers — maybe because they have been local monopolies — are concerned more about respectability than their British peers.
Murray Goulburn also points to Fonterra as an example of allowing a local monopoly to compete on the world stage.
This move may have been intended to avoid criticism from policy makers, both Republican and Democrat, who have aligned themselves with large Internet providers such as AT&T and Comcast that stand to suffer when their local monopolies are broken.
Public schools have always been a local monopoly on the education and innovation has been stifled as a result.
This crowd would stifle the openness and global reach of digital learning in the name of district empowerment and local monopoly.
Protections for teachers are a «natural outcome of a local monopoly.»
Other Colorado school boards may have begun to realize that moving on without a local monopoly of teachers union power may not be as difficult as previously thought.
Praise (government made) local monopolies!
That seems high, but then why should a local monopoly care about waste?