Updated Supermarket Shrink Estimates for Fresh Foods and Their Implications for ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability Data. Report Summary.

摘要

This study provides supermarket shrink estimates (percentages) for fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, and seafood in U.S. supermarkets in 2011 and 2012 by comparing supplier shipment data with point-of-sale data from one large national and four regional supermarket retailers. It also analyzes the consequences to the per capita food availability estimates if the new shrink estimates were to be incorporated into the Economic Research Service’s Loss-Adjusted Food Availability (LAFA) data, replacing the current 2005-06 retail-level loss estimates.