4 BULLETIN 1411, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
metropolitan stores : Fruit-and-vegetable specialists, two-thirds of the 
total; independent grocery stores, one-fourth of the total; and chain 
grocery stores, one-tenth of the total. 
Distribution of Fresh Fruits 
and Vegetables 
New York Metropolitan Area 
Passaic 
Brooklyn 
P)) Primary Wholesale Market 
Jobbino Markets: (W, Wallabout, Brooklyn; G, Gansevoort, Manhattan; 
H. Harlem, Manhattan, N. Newark, N.J.) 
@ Retail stores included in this studu 
Fig. 2. — From the primary New York wholesale market, P, channels of distribution lead through 
regional jobbing markets— W, G, H, N, (Wallabout in Brooklyn, Gansevoort and Harlem in 
Manhattan, Newark Market in Newark, N. J.) to local retailers. Location of stores supplying 
retail price data is shown by dark circles. 
BASIS OF ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTION EXPENSE 
_n attempting to determine the influence of various factors on the 
expense of distributing perishables, the plan was to collect a large 
number of original price records for several commodities from stores 
