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Excerpt from Marketing Activities, Vol. 10: October 1947 Losses from waste and spoilage are among the main cost items in the retailing of fresh fruits and vegetables. If these losses were avoided, in the long run the benefits 'would pass to consumers and producers. Although it is generally agreed that the country as a whole would bene fit from a reduction of such losses, opinions as to their extent differ considerably. In search of information on the extent of the losses, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in cooperation with the American Stores Com pany of Philadelphia has conducted a series of weekly spot checks of waste and spoilage in four bulk stores in northern New Jersey. The fruit and vegetable departments of these stores had no refrigeration equipment. The spot checks 'were made during the year ended November 1946. In April and June 1946 and January and February 1947, weekly rec ords were taken of two Philadelphia stores which were equipped with mechanical refrigerator display cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.