Price search in the retail grocery market

Journal of Marketing

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-104

  Urbany, Joel E ^b   Dickson, Peter R ^b   Kalapurakal, Rosemary ^a  

^a Women's Ink   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030551803     PISSN: 00222429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1251933     Document Type: Article

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