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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+(OP)
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.