Work

Supermarket Characteristics and Operating Costs in Low-income Areas

Year: 2004

Type: preprint

Abstract: Some hypothesize that poor consumers pay more for food because stores that serve them have higher costs. We assess how supermarket characteristics and operating costs differ with the percentage of sales from food stamp redemptions. Results do not support the hypothesis that costs are higher for stores serving the poor.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20361

Authors: King, Robert P., Leibtag, Ephraim S., Behl, Ajay S.

Language: English

Topic: Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Subfield: Marketing

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: No poverty

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Minnesota

OpenAlex ID: W2244258876

Cites:

Cited by: 15

Related to: 10