The paper addresses political issues related to policy interventions for food system
sustainability. It presents the results of a literature review, which explores how the concept of …

The success of retail business is influenced by its fast response and its ability in
understanding consumers' behaviors. Analysis of transaction data is the key for taking …

We examine the effect of supercenter market share on consumers' food‐at‐home
purchasing habits in the United States. We measure healthfulness several different ways to …

Ecolabels address the asymmetry of information between producers and consumers
regarding credence attributes. If consumers prefer a product with an ecolabel, the label will …

The nutritional quality of Americans' diets has increasingly become a focus of economic
research due to its effects on health outcomes. Health care and other costs associated with …

This article examines the determinants and impacts of rising market concentration in food
retail. We argue that the differentiated nature of food retail complicates the common …

The US food retail sector has experienced substantial change in market concentration over
the last three decades. To understand how the change in concentration might impact …

OBJECTIVE It is unknown whether any association between neighborhood food
environment and obesity varies according to individual income and/or race/ethnicity. The …

A growing literature in health and nutrition suggests that healthy foods are less available
and more expensive at nontraditional store formats such as supercenters, convenience …

We examine how estimates of household food demand elasticities and store profit margins
vary with alternative geographic market extents using structural models of household store …