Consumer food choices: The role of price and pricing strategies

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2220-2226

  Steenhuis, Ingrid H M ^a   Waterlander, Wilma E ^a   De Mul, Anika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumers; Low income; Pricing; Pricing policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESTAURANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857223673     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011001637     Document Type: Article

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