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J'étais président, l'an dernier, du Conseil canadien du commerce de détail, et nous faisions tout simplement... Au Canada, le numéro un dans chaque segment de marché a tendance à détenir une plus grande part du marché que ce n'est le cas aux États-Unis, où le marché est plutôt régional.
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Mr. Larry Stevenson: Let me talk about the retail side. We have tended to look more at comparisons laterally, with other retail industries in Canada. That's the one we've tended to watch more. You'll find in almost every sector of retail...I was the chairman of the Retail Council last year, and we just watched.... The market leader in each segment in Canada tends to have higher market share percentages than is true in the U.S. The U.S. tends to be a regional market. If you looked at food retail, you'd say that's a very, very fragmented business if you looked at the U.S. market as a whole. But actually, if you looked at California, you'd end up saying no, actually, California, which is larger than all of Canada, is a very concentrated market. So the U.S. statistics are tough, I think, to look at.
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