摘要：Fifteen lettuce and bagged salad shippers were interviewed as part of a larger study onchanges in produce marketing. Retail consolidation, changes in technology, and increasedconsumer demand for convenience, product diversity, and year-round availability have allinfluenced shipper-retailer relations. The interviewed firms provided more fees and servicesto retail buyers in 1999 than 1994. Most of the bagged salad shippers paid slotting fees,while none of the lettuce shippers were currently doing so. Bagged salad firms tended tooffer services to their customers, while lettuce firms generally complied with the servicerequests made by retailers.
