The UK independent cafe and coffee shop market is an example of monopolistic competition because:
firms sell completely homogeneous goods
the market is dominated by a small number of large firms
there are low barriers to entry and exit
firms are unable to influence the price of their product
92 exam-style questions on Edexcel A A Level Economics 3.4 Market structures, covering 3.4.1 Efficiency, 3.4.2 Perfect competition, 3.4.3 Monopolistic competition, 3.4.4 Oligopoly, 3.4.5 Monopoly, 3.4.6 Monopsony, and 3.4.7 Contestability. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.