During the period of May 16-27, 1976, interviews were completed in

Philadelphia and Boston, and interviews in Detroit were completed

June 6-9. In the three cities, a total of 26 persons in 17 retail

chains were interviewed, along with 17 people from 14 wholesale

firms. In addition, 30 individual retail stores were visited, 10

in each city, and produce managers were interviewed in each store.

It will be noted in Table 1 that one of the large national chains

was contacted in more than one city. These were region or division

offices responsible for stores in the particular market area. In

several cases, the corporate offices of other chains were included

in the interviews.


Table 1.--Firms included in study

Classifi- Philadelphia Boston Detroit
cation

Retailers A&P A&P A&P
 Acme Angelo's Allied
 Food Fair Brockton-Public Chatham's
 Genaurdi's Fernandes Farmer Jack's
 Penn Fruit First National Stores Kroger
 Shopping Cart Purity-Supreme
 Star Markets
 Stop & Shop
Wholesalers H. R. Hindle Co. Boston Celery Harry Becker
 MC Produce Community-Suffolk Company
 Norristown Wholesale Peter Condakes Co. A. Harris Co.
 Dan Storey, Inc. Lampros. Bros. MacClaren Co.
 Zuritsky & Co. Abner Wolf
 Company
 Shippers
 Service