About the Author

Gordon Falk Bloom earned a PhD in Economics and a JD from Harvard. He was former President of Elm Farm Foods and Chairman of the Board of the National Association of Food Chains, and headed a real estate development firm. A Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, he co-chaired the MIT panel that developed the format for the Universal Product Code. Bloom authored numerous books and articles on the food industry, labor relations and productivity. 

Bloom, Gordon F. "Black capitalism and black supermarkets." Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1969.