How Retailers Responded to Taxes on Sweetened Beverages: A Tale of Two Cities

Jeanette Holdbrook, Dana Petersen, David Jones and David Frisvold

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Abstract: This issue brief discusses how beverage retailers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Oakland, California, implemented excise taxes on the distribution of sweetened beverages and how they responded to the taxes by changing product prices, store inventory, and marketing strategies.

Keywords: Sugar-sweetened beverages; child obesity; soda tax; added sugars; Philadelphia; Oakland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
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