Dominick’s

From 1989 to 1994, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the now defunct Dominick’s Finer Foods entered into a partnership for store-level research into shelf management and pricing. Together, they conducted randomized experiments in more than 25 different categories throughout all stores in this 100-store chain. As a by-product of this research cooperation, approximately nine years (September 14, 1987 to May 14, 1997) of store-level data on the sales of more than 3,500 UPCs are available through this resource.

These data are for academic research purposes only. Users must acknowledge in their working papers and/or publications the Kilts Center for Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

The Dominick’s dataset covers store-level scanner data collected at Dominick’s Finer Foods over a period of more than seven years. The dataset contains two types of files: category-specific files and general files. The general files contain information pertaining to all the categories in the project.