Grocery store credit service: Credit, like delivery, telephone, and sales service, offered customers is related to characteristics of individual stores

Dunsing, M; Coles, J

Grocery store credit service: Credit, like delivery, telephone, and sales service, offered customers is related to characteristics of individual stores

Authors

Marilyn Dunsing
Jessie V. Coles

Authors Affiliations

Marilyn Dunsing is Assistant Professor of Home Economics, University of California, Davis; Jessie V. Coles is Professor of Family Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 12(2):13-14. DOI:10.3733/ca.v012n02p13. February 1958.

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Abstract

The following article is the third of a series of reports of a survey of characteristics of and services offered by retail grocery stores in five counties in California made cooperatively by the Department of Home Economics, University of California, and the United States Department of Agriculture under the authority of the Research and Marketing Act as part of Western Regional Research Project WM-26.

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