competitiveness of the retailing sector as competition eliminates the scope for retailers to offer variety. Mainstream consumers with … a preference for variety and consumers with eccentric tastes enjoy a symbiotic relationship. Competition over mainstream … consumers makes retailers offer more exotic goods, while eccentric consumers subsidize their carrying costs. …

which consumers accept names, typically associated with meat-legged products, for naming meat substitutes was tested …

the use of paper checks that has been quite uneven across consumers and not well understood. This paper estimates … econometric models of consumers' adoption (extensive margin) and use (intensive margin) of checks plus six other common U …

information regarding customer-specific preferences (symmetric preference recognition). Consumers would benefit from a policy … from uniform pricing (no recognition) are larger than the associated harm to consumers, regardless of which regime of …