Updated Supermarket Shrink Estimates for Fresh Foods and Their Implications for ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability Data

Authors :: Campuzano, Jennifer
Ammon, Cara
Buzby, Jean C.
Bentley, Jeanine T.
Padera, Beth
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: ERS examines how using updated supermarket shrink-loss data in the agency's Loss-Adjusted Food Availability series would affect estimates of U.S. fresh food items available for consumption.

Subjects :: Marketing
vegetables
poultry
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Conversion factor
food availability
retail
fruit
Food Security and Poverty
FOS: Economics and business
meat
supermarket
food loss
seafood
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

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