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| King, Robert P.; Leibtag, Ephraim S.; Behl, Ajay S.. |
| Whether the poor pay more for food than other income groups is an important question in food price policy research. Stores serving low-income shoppers differ in important ways from stores that receive less of their revenues from Food Stamp redemptions. Stores with more revenues from Food Stamps are generally smaller and older, and offer relatively fewer convenience services for shoppers. They also offer a different mix of products, with a relatively high portion of sales coming from meat and private-label products. Metro stores with high Food Stamp redemption rates lag behind other stores in the adoption of progressive supply chain and human resource practices. Finally, stores with the highest Food Stamp redemption rates have lower sales margins relative... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food prices; Supermarkets; Low-income consumers; Food Stamps; Metro; Nonmetro; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34003 |
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