Is the reason most restaurants in the US don't have pay toilets the same
as the reason that many grocery stores in the US don't have a bring your
own bag/buy a bag policy? Both pay systems seem to be more common in
Europe.
Also, both the grocery stores and the types I restaurants that would
The July 2002 issue of Consumer Reports (not yet on their website) has an
article on p.30 on Deregulation with a summary Why consumers suffer most
in a free market - and what you can do about it. Their strongest argument
is a graph on p.30 on titled Prices: A long-term decline. Consumer
prices
Do they define their use of free market and deregulation?
Has the deregulation talked about resulted in a freemarket?
Bryan
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Also relevant is quality and availability of service. Previously prices
may have been cheap/falling but the range of offering, customer
treatment or availability may have constrained enjoyment of the service
to a sub optimal level. Deregulation could/should change this. (I think
it has in my
Also relevant is quality and availability of service. Previously prices
may have been cheap/falling but the range of offering, customer
treatment or availability may have constrained enjoyment of the service
to a sub optimal level. Deregulation could/should change this. (I think
it has in my
A few suggestions follow.
for deregulation across several industries:
Robert Crandall and Jerry Ellig, Economic Deregulation and Customer Choice (1996),
Fairfax, VA: Center for Market Processes, George Mason University. This article has
many useful references.
for airline deregulation:
