IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uersab/308641.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Costs of and Reasons for Rewrapping Prepackaged Meats, Poultry, and Cheese

Author

Listed:
  • Dobbins, C. E.
  • Hoecker, R. W.

Abstract

Excerpts from the report Summary: A study was undertaken to measure the amount and cost of rewrapping required for prepackaged meats, poultry, and cheese and to find the reasons why rewrapping was necessary. This study is one of a series designed to aid retail store operators in the handling of prepackaged foods. Reduction of the amount of rewrapping required would reduce the cost of retailing foods and help to hold down the cost of marketing farm products. Such a reduction in costs normally permits either lower prices to the consumer, or higher prices to the producer, or the provision of additional services to the consumer without extra costs. Observations of the time required to rewrap previously packaged meat were made in three Washington, D. C., supermarkets which have self-service meat departments. Reasons for rewrapping, as well as the cost of rewrapping, were obtained for 4 weeks in each of two supermarkets, and for 2 weeks in a third, during the period April 10 through June 24, 1950. This information was obtained for all the various cuts of the principal types of meat, as well as for poultry and cheese.

Suggested Citation

  • Dobbins, C. E. & Hoecker, R. W., 1951. "Costs of and Reasons for Rewrapping Prepackaged Meats, Poultry, and Cheese," Agricultural Information Bulletins 308641, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersab:308641
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.308641
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/308641/files/aib77.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.308641?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uersab:308641. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.