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Volatile market forces produce mixed cost indicators for food distributors

Published Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Perhaps providing a mirror of volatile fuel prices and other market forces, key performance indicators for wholesale grocers and retail supermarket chains are mixed for 2004. The cost per mile for retail supermarket chain fleets rose 36 cents to $2.41, but the same cost indicator fell 14 cents to $2.01 for wholesale grocery distribution fleets. The same holds true for transportation cost per route, with cost rising $99 per route for retail chain fleets to $537 but dropping $13 per route at wholesale grocers to $456 per route. This data is reported in the 2004 Food Industry Transportation ...

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