Meanings
- uncountablebusinessCompetition between retailers, products or services owned by the same brand.First known use 19th c.
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However, when our product is required to compete with itself by the reckless and irresponsible commercial conduct of price cutters, our ability to compete diminishes. This self-competition among different outlets for the same branded product is morbid competition, a perverse corruption of the concept of competition itself which leads to its destruction.
1958, Paul C. Williams, Discount-House Operations (Unites States Senate), Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 389
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