Will die Europäische Union ihr erklärtes Ziel erreichen, sich zur wettbewerbsfähigsten und dynamischsten wissensbasierten Wirtschaft der Welt zu entwickeln, dann muss sie ihre Wettbewerbsleistung drastisch steigern. Obwohl sie die besten makroökonomischen Bedingungen des Jahrzehnts und...

Will die Europäische Union ihr erklärtes Ziel erreichen, sich zur wettbewerbsfähigsten und dynamischsten wissensbasierten Wirtschaft der Welt zu entwickeln, dann muss sie ihre Wettbewerbsleistung drastisch steigern. Obwohl sie die besten makroökonomischen Bedingungen des Jahrzehnts und...

Executive Summary The Food Industry Center established the Supermarket Panel in 1998 as the basis for an ongoing study of the supermarket industry. Since 2000 the core of the Panel has been a random sample of stores drawn from the approximately 32,000 supermarkets in the U.S. that accept food...

Many changes are occurring in food retailing. Forces driving these changes include the sales gains by supercenter, membership club, and convenience stores, the growing popularity of foodservice, the expansion of private label products (and the response by branded food manufacturers), and the...

This paper looks at performance at the individual restaurant level from the perspective of management, customers and employees. The results are based on surveys of each of these three groups conducted between June and September 2001 at a sit-down, casual restaurant chain. There are several key...

Higher union density (the percentage of employees in an area who belong to unions) is known to raise the wages of union members. We find that in the supermarket industry, higher density locally also leads to higher wages for non-union members. Despite this, workers who are not in unions lose...

Specialty food aficionados, who use the Internet to gather information or place orders, resemble those who rely on mail order catalogs, except for being younger. Both groups are well- educated, wealthy, and frequent specialty food buyers. Among those studied, nearly all of the Internet users...

Slotting allowances are a relatively recent trend, particular to the retail food industry. These allowances are lump-sum up-front transfer payments from manufacturer to retailer when the manufacturer launches a new product. The practice has attracted some scrutiny because of uncertainty about...

The adoption of Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) practices by Minnesota convenience store (C- store) is explained in this study. Data were collected through a mail survey distributed to more than 250 Minnesota C-stores ranging in size from single, independently owned stores to over 100 store...