@article{Shaffer:312094,
      recid = {312094},
      author = {Shaffer, Paul and Bouma, John C. and Karitas, James J. and  Flynn, Gordon },
      title = {Handling Groceries from Warehouse to Retail Store Shelves},
      address = {1961-05},
      number = {2393-2021-1790},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 473},
      pages = {56},
      year = {1961},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Summary:  Improved handling of  groceries from the warehouse to the retail grocery store  shelves offers the opportunity for substantial savings  An  estimated five billion cases of grocery products are moved  each year from warehouses into retail food stores.   Handling time per case ranges from 3 to 6 man-minutes  depending on the method used.  If this time were reduced by  1 minute and the time saved used effectively, an annual  savings in food handling costs would total $160 million.   Eight combinations of methods of handling groceries were  studied.  Costs ranged from $124.50 to $155.70 per thousand  cases, a difference of 25 percent.  The eight systems were:  (1) Merchandise assembled and shipped on pallets and priced  In the storeroom; (2) merchandise assembled and shaped on  pallets and priced at the store shelf; (3) merchandise  handstacked in trailer. And priced In the storeroom after  receiving; (4) merchandise handstacked in trailers and  priced at the store shelf; (5) merchandise loaded on  trailers with a multiforklift truck and priced in the  storeroom after receiving; (6) merchandise loaded with a  multlforkllft truck and priced at the shelf, (7)  merchandise handstacked in trailers and priced as received;  and (8) merchandise loaded with multifork truck and priced  as received.  Of the eight systems, loading by multifork,  receiving by conveyor, and pricing at the shelf using  4-wheel stock trucks (Number 6) was the lowest cost system  ($124.40 per thousand cases) when the warehouse was 30  miles from the retail store.  Second lowest cost system  ($125.90 per thousand was handstacking in the delivery  truck, receiving by conveyor and pricing at the shelf  (Number 4).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/312094},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.312094},
}