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Abstract
This research addresses two important issues for the future expansion of
organic consumption in France. The first one is related to knowing whether the organic choice
is a permanent feature of consumer’s attitude or not: Do organic buyers occasionally pick one
organic product or do they choose organic for “several” categories? The second issue
concerns the impact of prices on buying organics which is revisited, distinguishing between
capturing new consumers and increasing the demand coming from people already involved in
organic markets. These questions are examined using the market basket approach; the price
issue requires further estimations of demand models. The study relies on two staple food
products, eggs and milk. The findings are : (i) choosing organic for one of the two items
reinforces the probability of purchasing also the organic version of the second item; (ii)
marginal reductions of the organic price have no impact on the decision of buying organic
rather than conventional products; (iii) on the contrary, when people already purchase organic
products, price elasticities are rather high; (iv) organic buyers’ demographic profile is not
related to income neither to age nor to family size, but to the educational level.