E-commerce in agriculture is something new and evolving. As a result, it has not settled into a set of fixed practices. Three major questions are the basis for discussion: (1) Is there any order in the variety of e-commerce practices? (2) What drives the evolution of e-commerce?(3) What are the...

This paper identifies patterns of cross-sectional and temporal price dispersion-in the Spanish online grocery retail market-and evaluates the extent to which search costs and chain heterogeneity explain such dispersion. We build a data set comprising 836,074 prices for the most popular grocery...

In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives,...