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| Kinsey, Jean D.; Senauer, Benjamin; King, Robert P.; Phumpiu, Paul F.. |
| This paper contains two chapters related to changes in retail food delivery and sales. The first discusses trends in consumer demographics and lifestyles and how these continue to drive changes in the way food is prepared and delivered to consumers. Retail stores are responding with new formats: providing more ready to eat foods; more convenient store layouts; lower prices and better service in niche markets across the country. Their demands send signals up the food chain to processors and producers that alter their production and inventory decisions. Electronic information technology speeds these changes and leads to more efficient operation with, allegedly, better service for consumers. The second chapter discusses how advances in information... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14352 |
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| Phumpiu, Paul F.; King, Robert P.. |
| Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) is an industry-wide, collaborative initiative to re-engineer the grocery supply chain. This report presents findings from a study of ECR adoption in Minnesota grocery stores. Data were collected through interviews with managers of forty stores that are broadly distributed over store sizes, locations, and organizational forms. The interviews focused on business practices and technologies related to inventory management and ordering, shelf-space allocation and product assortment decisions, and product pricing and promotions. Findings are presented from three distinct perspectives: (1) stores grouped by location (metro and out- state), (2) stores grouped by organizational form (corporate chain, independent chain, and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14311 |
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