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2. Obfuscation and retail pricing
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Richards, Timothy J. (author), Klein, Gordon (author), Bonner, Celine (author), and Bouamra-Mechemache, Zohra (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10026
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 44 pages., Authors examined retail sales data in several product categories (e.g., coffee and soft drinks) to learn how margins can vary with package size. They cited evidence of "strategic obfuscation" through slight differentiations of product sizes or flavors.