Private label expansion and supermarket milk prices

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Bonanno, Alessandro ^a   Lopez, Rigoberto A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Dept of Agric and Rsrc Economics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Food retailing; Milk; Pricing; Private labels

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444378123     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1085     Document Type: Article

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