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What's a little mold? Why consumers have different freshness standards at home
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Why is it acceptable for someone who would never purchase "expired" milk at the store to pour "expired" milk into a cup of coffee at breakfast? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the reasons consumers are mo ...
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Fixed costs determine structure of the supermarket industry
Sep 17, 2008 |
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In many retail industries, the most successful firms are the ones that offer the widest selection. For example, Home Depot and Staples offer a wide array of products at competitive prices. Maintaining this variety requires ...
Even in tough times, savvy shoppers reluctant to give up grocery favourites, new study shows
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Along with the price of petrol, the cost of groceries is a major concern for most Australians. New University of Western Sydney research reveals the pivotal role that emotions and brand loyalty have on our ...
Fraud exposes British to mad cow disease
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Inspectors in Britain believe widespread fraud at slaughterhouses may be exposing the public to meat contaminated with mad cow disease.
Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light nutrition labels
May 07, 2009 |
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Consumers are five times more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light nutrition labels than when labels present the information numerically by showing what percentage of the recommended daily ...
Speed matters for ice-shelf breaking
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 27, 2008 |
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It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn ...
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown
Feb 16, 2009 |
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The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, Penn State.
"Mum, buy me that chocolate, pleeeease!" New study shows the pervasive influence of children on their parents' in-store
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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The influence children wield over their parents' purchase decisions at the point of sale is grossly underestimated by parents. This was shown in a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Vienna, Austria. According ...
Salmonella: Tough to crack when it’s in peanuts
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket ...
GM rice from U.S. found in EU
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Genetically modified rice from the United States has been found in the European Union, in violation of a ban on import, growth and sale of such crops.
Greenland's glaciers losing ice faster this year than last year, which was record-setting itself
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago.
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