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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
wiley   +1 more source

‘Healthier options tend to get lost in the noise of online’ – Australian shoppers’ experiences with online grocery platforms

open access: yesPublic Health Nutrition
Objective: We aimed to understand what influences parents’ purchasing behaviours when shopping for groceries online and potential ways to improve the healthiness of online grocery platforms.
Rebecca Bennett   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the adoption of sustainable omni-channel grocery technologies among generation Z in Malaysia: the moderating role of risk mitigation for perishability

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
Advancements in technology have allowed businesses in Malaysia to shift from a multi-channel strategy to an omni-channel approach. Despite this change, there have been limited studies on Malaysian consumers' readiness to embrace omni-channel retailing ...
Nornajihah Nadia Hasbullah   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship Between Grocery Shopping Frequency and Home- and Individual-Level Diet Quality Among Low-Income Racial or Ethnic Minority Households With Preschool-Aged Children [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2020
J. Banks   +7 more
openalex   +1 more source

Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-border shopping: evidence from household transaction records

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Cross-border shopping expands product variety and lowers prices for consumers in high-price countries, but it diminishes domestic tax revenues, reduces sales, and shifts demand away from local retailers.
Frédéric Kluser
doaj   +1 more source

Digital transformation in food retail: a case study of Lithuania e-grocery buying behaviours

open access: yesEntrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
This study addresses the evolving landscape of food consumption in the context of digital transformation, focusing on how online platforms are reshaping grocery shopping preferences and perceptions towards local and temperature-controlled foods.
Valentas Gružauskas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Income, Inequality, and Food Prices: A Critique of Broda, Leibtag, and Weinstein's "The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor's Living Standards" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In "The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor's Living Standards," Christian Broda, Ephriam Leibtag, and David E. Weinstein (2009) use proprietary data -- the 2005 Nielsen Homescan dataset -- to analyze differences by income level in the prices paid for ...
Shawn Fremstad
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