Of course another store could open -- but it greatly raises the barrier to entry if the competitor has to build on new land from scratch; most won't do it. Or m

Of course another store could open -- but it greatly raises the barrier to entry if the competitor has to build on new land from scratch; most won't do it. Or maybe they'll open some small store that isn't really a threat to the Vons > when you read something that's so comic-book-villain evil, something about the story is being misrepresented or is just wrong seriously? companies pull stuff like that all the time to try to shut out the competition. It's not much different than Microsoft bundling IE with Windows to kill Netscape -- forgoing revenue on something it could charge for, to kill the competition and then have a pretty lousy browser for a long time