Affiliated Chains

Affiliated Chains -   affiliated chains are retail operations that are none competing with each other, and act as a single entity when purchasing services and goods.  Affiliated chains pool their purchase in order to obtain a volume discount on their purchases, lowering their costs, and therefore increasing their profit.  No single affiliate has authority over the other one, and in some cases have a third party overseeing operations…Affiliated chains operate as a single business in a normal retail operation, but ban together with their affiliates to lower cost of doing business