@article{AgriculturalMarketingService:310430,
      recid = {310430},
      author = {Agricultural Marketing Service, Market Organization and  Costs Branch},
      title = {Do Trading Stamps Affect Food Costs?  },
      address = {1957-01},
      number = {2393-2021-1145},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 147},
      pages = {14},
      year = {1957},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Preface:   Food prices reached a  near-record level in the third quarter of 1956.  This  advance was part of a broad increase in living expenses  which reached a new high.  Public opinion was focused on  the increase and consumers want to know why food costs so  much.  Studies by the U. S. Department of Agriculture show  that more than half of the retail price of food goes for  processing and distribution.  Because of this, any changes  that may result in further increase in costs come in for  close attention.  In recent years a number of competitive  practices have developed or been expanded at the retail  level which may affect the cost of retailing.  One of the  most striking of these is the phenomenal expansion in use  of food trading stamps.  Because of the importance of these  developments the Agricultural Marketing Service has  undertaken a study of the effects of the use of food  trading stamps and associated practices on marketing  organization, costs, and efficiency.  This first report  seeks only to explain the basic characteristics of trading  stamp plans, to review and discuss available information  relating to the development and use of the stamps, and to  consider some of the relevant issues and economic problems  facing retailers and consumers as a result of the  widespread use of  these stamps.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/310430},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.310430},
}