Productivity Potential in Dry Grocery Warehouses

Gerald Grinnell and Lawrence Friedman

No 307918, Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Food distributors in the United States could substantially improve their productivity by making better use of existing technology. Direct labor costs could have been reduced by $700 million in 1981 by changing work assignments, obtaining a more balanced day-to-day workload, using new equipment, increasing use of unitized loads, altering some product handling practices, and partially mechanizing, according to this study of dry grocery warehouses.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 1982-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307918

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