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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Exploring Food Purchase Behavior of Low-Income Households: How Do They Economize?
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| Autores: |
Leibtag, Ephraim S.
Kaufman, Phillip R.
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| Data: |
2005-11-30
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| Ano: |
2003
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| Palavras-chave: |
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
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| Resumo: |
This report compares food purchases by U.S. households of different income levels and finds that low-income shoppers spend less on food purchases despite some evidence that they face generally higher purchase prices. Households can economize on food spending by purchasing more discounted products, favoring private-label (generic) products over brand, pursuing volume discounts, or settling for a less expensive product (for example, less lean beef within a product class. A 1998 sample of food store purchase data shows that low-income households adhere to these practices when possible, but that the typically smaller size of food stores in urban and rural locations may sometimes preclude them from doing so.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
19321
http://purl.umn.edu/33711
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
United States Department of Agriculture>Economic Research Service>Agricultural Information Bulletins
Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 747-07; Current Issues in Economics of Food Markets
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| Formato: |
8
application/pdf
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