Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Packaging and Price-Marking Produce in Retail Food Stores: A Study of Improved Methods of Marketing Agricultural Products
When apples are 23 cents per pound, up to 33 cents per box Of size 150 or size 163 apples can be saved by individually price-marking each 3-pound (approx imete) bag Of apples, compared with hand filling and estimating the weight or machine filling and weighing and labeling the filled bag with the separate label printer and scale combination. In addition, all underweight bags are eliminated. This applies to all produce where the retailer has an Option Of estimating the weight by count or Of weighing out and accurately pricing the item.
Packaging potatoes and onions on a semiautomatic bagging machine was the most efficient method Of packaging these at the retail level. It was ih percent more efficient than the most efficient hand filling method (using a hand scoop on a specially designed table) for 3-pound onions, 39 percent more efficient for 5-pound potatoes, and percent more efficient for 10-pound potatoes.
This machine is equally effective for bagging oranges, grapefruit, and apples, provided steps are taken to prevent bruising.
Seven methods Of preparing bananas for sale were studied. Ending with gummed kraft tape and prepricing the bunches resulted in lower combined costs for labor, materials, and shrinkage than other methods.
When citrus is sold in bulk displays or in a bulk and packaged combination the most effective method Of price-coding the bulk citrus is with a citrus coder developed by the research staff. Use of the citrus coder increased pro duction by 150 percent for handling oranges and 60 percent for handling grape fruit.
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