[126] Nevertheless, given that independent retailers must compete with major supermarket chains in their vicinities, particularly Woolworths and Coles stores, Metcash encourages the independent retailers it supplies to «benchmark» their standard
shelf prices according to the standard
shelf prices charged by Woolworths or Coles, particularly in relation to «key value
items» that represent
particular products whose prices are known and used by consumers to assess the value
on offer from a
particular store.
Books in a research library are no longer simply books, expendable commodities replaced or substituted for as easily as cans of soup
on a grocer's
shelf, or volumes in a bookshop; they are scarce or unique
items built carefully into a complex structure of knowledge in which each one serves a
particular purpose.