mailing list of 977 retail stores most likely to sell pesticides for household, lawn, or garden use was generated. The list included general merchandise stores such as Wal-Mart, hardware stores such as Ace Hardware, home improvement centers such as Home
nursery/greenhouse firms operate on “thin profit margins” ( Sturdivant, 2013 ), it is important to understand how local labeling and the intrinsic value, if any, associated with an outlet type (i.e., home improvement center/mass merchandiser vs. nursery
examples of new trends that are shaping consumer expectations when making retail purchase decisions regarding green industry and nongreen industry products. Understanding how IGCs compare with home improvement centers (HICs), such as Home Depot (Atlanta, GA
improvement of tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) for phytonutrient content at AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center Ekin J. 2 2 1 10 Hardigan, M.A. Bamberg, J. Buell, C.R. Douches, D.S. 2015 Taxonomy and genetic differentiation among wild and
viewed as having better customer service, more knowledgeable staff, higher-quality products, and more expensive products relative to plants from less specialized retailers ( Campbell and Campbell 2019 ; Yue and Behe 2008 ). Conversely, home improvement
challenged individuals. Materials and methods Expt. 1 (HRV) Subjects. The Daegu Rehabilitation Center for mentally challenged people is located in Daegu, South Korea. The vocational rehabilitation team is composed of 50 mentally challenged individuals. They
externality is that the recession has caused many young adults to move back home, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center (2008) . Through mid-2009, households had lost $12 trillion, or 19% of their wealth, because of the collapse in housing
purchasing at mass merchandiser/home improvement centers and nursery/greenhouse garden centers, we used a two-limit tobit model developed by Rossett and Nelson (1975) . A pollinator-friendly plant purchasing value was obtained by asking survey respondents
’s theories is the establishment of international genebanks where genetic resources belong to humanity. Private funding such as that from the Rockefeller and the Ford Foundations was provided to establish centers for research and crop improvement by the
( Whitinger and Cohen 2021 ). Quarantine measures from the COVID-19 pandemic are partly responsible for the increased interest in home vegetable gardening in recent years ( Whitinger and Cohen 2022 ), with 75% of independent garden centers reporting increased