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Here in Eastern Europe we are having fewer and fewer of those during the last 30 years. My favorite cheese maker closed her small shop and started selling direct from home since local authorities started demanding test and workshop inspections (bribes really). She's planning to switch to selling the milk directly to one of those big name supermarket diary processors soon. Less money but fewer headaches.

>>nickpp+(OP)
I have an impression that regulations related to that kind of stuff usually have exemptions for those exact cases -- small operators, direct to customer or self-consumed produce, etc, etc. As a fellow enjoyer of bribe-infested jurisdictions I get the point zo. In my country the balance between more regulation/less bribability tends to tip towards less bribability for those exact reasons.

>>nickpp+(OP)
Given that around me, they keep going, how much of it is caused by regulations, and how much of it is caused by major supermarket chains being deployed all over the place?

Around me, meaning DACH countries, Iberian Penisula and some Mediterranean countries.

>>pjmlp+oH
They're connected, of course: regulation favours incumbents, big players who can afford the cost and headache of compliance. Small players and startups are slowly pushed out, they never grow to become strong, competition thins out and then people complain and wonder where are the little guys and ask for more regulation against the big hypermarkets to solve the problem regulation created in the first place.

The mind boggles.