The conduct of this survey provided an alternate viewpoint to that represented by organised consumer groups, a viewpoint that has been absent in the processes guiding the direction of maternity care reform, resultant in a concentration of consumer opinion advocating for a move away from obstetric care in healthy pregnancy.
Even here in Maryland, which is one of the wealthiest states in the country, there are areas with high concentrations of consumers who are subjected to costly services and a lack of mainstream banking options.
Further concerns are about the direct observability of price-cost margins and whether high profits (i.e. firm performance) should be associated with good or bad market performance (Bresnahan 1989, p. 1013), thus questioning the effect of concentration on consumer welfare.
A concentration of rich consumers should lead to better salaries for low-skilled jobs like waiters or manicurists.
Instead, Google has divided Kansas City into 204 districts (which it annoyingly insists on calling "fibrehoods"), has invited consumers who want the one-gigabit service to register in advance, and will deliver service to the 46 areas with the highest concentration of interested consumers.
It might be anticipated that in these national contexts this may result in a lower density of outlets but with a greater social discrepancy due to the concentration of targeted consumers and alternative land use planning strategies.
The consequences of economic concentration for consumers are complicated by more difficult-to-trace impacts on small businesses, American workers and small businesses.
However, the reductions in CRP concentrations of adult consumers in tertile 2 and tertile 3, although present, were not significantly different from non-consumers (Table 4).
Kerry Killinger, chairman, chief executive and president of Washington Mutual, said the purchase of Dime would allow his company to offer its products to "the largest concentration of middle-market consumers in the nation".
