食い合い

くいあい【食い合い】

biting each other; fighting; 【相場】 the long and short interests in the market; a technical position.

●この辺りにはガソリンスタンドが 5 軒も建ち並び, 互いの食い合いによって 2 軒が閉店に追いやられた. Around here there were five gas stations, one next to the other, but in the scuffle for customers two were forced to close down.