The Effect of Retailer Concentration and Store Format on Consumers’ Food Purchasing Decisions

Volpe, Richard J.,, Abigail Okrent () and Ephraim Leibtag

No 103448, 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: We examine the effect of the market share of supercenter stores on consumers’ food-at-home purchasing habits in the United States. We measure healthfulness several different ways to ensure robustness, but all measurements place a greater value on fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains than on processed foods high in sugar and sodium. The results show that consumers, on average, purchase less healthful foods at supercenters than they do at supermarkets. Moreover a one-percent increase in the local market share of supercenters results in a decrease in purchase healthfulness for groceries of 0.5 to two percent.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Industrial Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.103448

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