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paid 'business gurus', etc., seem to be blind to this fact and are often incapable of thinking it through. In Tesco's sector, for instance, there is an ultimate finite limit of room for further expansion when retail saturation point is approached. Smaller competitors either fall into niches or capitulate and a major fear is that food retailing in the U.K. will become even more of a cartel (monopoly of the few) where the customer will be left with only token differences in choice and price in the resultant market. Likewise, producers will have their profit margins dictated to them by a small, close, selection of buyers who are maximising their own profit margins. paid 'business gurus', etc., seem to be blind to this fact and are often incapable of thinking it through. In Tesco's sector, for instance, there is an ultimate finite limit of room for further expansion when retail saturation point is approached. Smaller competitors either fall into niches or capitulate and a major fear is that food retailing in the U.K. will become even more of a cartel (monopoly of the few) where the customer will be left with only token differences in choice and price in the resultant market. Likewise, producers will have their profit margins dictated to them by a small, close, selection of buyers who are maximising their own profit margins.