Demand for and access to affordable, nutritious food is at the forefront of the food desert problem. Detroit, MI is arguably America’s worst food desert, characterized by the scarcity of nutritious foods, and unknown demand for and consumption of healthy food products. Primary data was...

Detroit, MI is arguably America’s worst food desert, in terms of size and number of people impacted, and is a city where there have been no full-service supermarket chains operating since 2007. This study addresses the knowledge gap concerning the demand for fruits and vegetables in a...

Supply relationships and e-auctions are complementary procurement forms that specialty coffee roasters can utilize when designing a procurement strategy. We model the roasters’ optimal choices of procurement strategies using an extended newsvendor model. By comparing the optimal strategies in...