In many developing countries, supermarkets are increasingly replacing traditional markets as preferred points of food purchases in urban areas. This has welfare implications on smallholder farmers that supply supermarkets. While previous studies have analyzed the welfare effects of smallholder...

Ziel dieses Berichts ist die Darstellung der - im Rahmen des Dialogforums Groß- und Einzelhandel, unter Mitwirkung der teilnehmenden Handelsunternehmen - erhobenen Daten zu Lebensmittelverlusten im Handelssektor in Deutschland für das Jahr 2019. Darüber hinaus sollen die Erkenntnisse der...

This empirical paper analyzes the existence (and persistence) of price dispersion in the Spanish food retail market as well as the extent to which search costs and vertical product differentiation contribute to explain that price dispersion. Our data set comprises six months of daily prices from...

Depok is now considered as one of Metropolitan cities with huge development in Indonesia. This statement leads to a fact that can be seen from the proliferation of various food retails. There are about 114 food retails in Depok. Unfortunately, the proper food waste management cannot balance the...

The aim of this study has been to analyze important aspects of buying behavior of food retailers, i.e., trade buyers' evaluation of product and vendor attributes, based on a number of background variables, when choosing a new supplier of an already well-known product category. The study...