price war
price war
price war
price′ war`
n.
| Noun | 1. | price war - intense competition in which competitors cut retail prices to gain business |
| 单词 | price war | |||
| 释义 | price warprice warprice warprice′ war`n.
price warprice warAn aggressive competition between two or more providers of goods or services, in which the price is lowered to a minimum, as a means of earning more money. The NHS has traditionally fixed prices between trusts, which has allowed quality of service to remain high. The NHS Operating Framework for 2011/2, aims to bring “…new flexibility being introduced opportunity for providers to offer services…” at less than the mandatory tariff prices.price warprice wara situation of aggressive price cutting by a group of rival suppliers as a means of gaining sales at each other's expense. Since price wars, however, tend to be mutually ruinous by destroying the profitability of the market, they are normally avoided, with suppliers preferring to compete instead through various PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION strategies. See OLIGOPOLY, CARTEL, COLLUSION, PRICE LEADERSHIP.price warany competition between rival suppliers centred on aggressive PRICE cutting. Price wars often break out when demand for a product is depressed and there is EXCESS SUPPLY capacity in the market. If FIXED COSTS are a high proportion of total costs, suppliers may be tempted to cut their prices to maintain full capacity working.Price warfare is beneficial to the consumer and to RESOURCE ALLOCATION within the market insofar as it serves to eliminate inefficient, high-cost suppliers. The problem from the suppliers’ point of view is that cut- throat price competition reduces the profitability of the market and everybody finishes up worse off. For this reason, suppliers, particularly OLIGOPOLY suppliers, will normally try to avoid price wars and direct their competitive efforts into PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION activities. See COMPETITION METHODS, PRICE LEADERSHIP. price war
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