Segmentation of Retail Food Store Formats in Qingdao, China

Junfei Bai, Thomas Wahl and Jill McCluskey

No 21233, 2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This study empirically estimates a multivariate binary choice model for four categories of food shopping store formats. The results indicate that in the Qingdao market, traditional counter parts such as wet markets and small grocery stores have been dominated by supermarkets and hypermarkets. At the same time, the rapid growth of hypermarkets in Qingdao is significantly challenging current supermarkets in this city, but they do not compete extensively with wet markets and small grocery stores. Further development of various categories of the food shopping store format is linked to store owned characteristics, potential interrelations among existing retail formats, as well as consumers' demographics and shopping habits.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.21233

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