I saw Shane Robison give a talk about the HP+Compaq merger. [1] He advantage that came from the merger was getting more shelf space in retail stores. Having s

I saw Shane Robison give a talk about the HP+Compaq merger. [1] He advantage that came from the merger was getting more shelf space in retail stores. Having some influence and/or control of what got displayed in the HP shelfspace and the Compaq shelfspace was considered valuable. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shane-robison https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shane-robison