Inventory Information Frictions Explain Price Rigidity in Perishable Groceries

The authors thank the seminar participants at Northwestern University, London Business School, Indiana University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Boston University, University of Virginia, and Amazon Science. The authors also thank the participants at Harvard’s 2021 Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing. Finally, the authors thank Kathleen Li, Kanishka Misra, Christopher Ryan, Steve Gilbert, Diwakar Gupta, and Lingxiu Dong for their feedback on the manuscript. The authors have no funding to disclose. This article was formerly titled “Inventory Record Inaccuracy Explains Price Rigidity in Perishable Groceries.”