Melachrinoudis, Emanuel; Olafsson, Michael - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 25 (1995) 1, pp. 34-50
Labour scheduling in supermarkets is a difficult task since most employees work various shift lengths instead of standard eight‐hour shifts. With front‐end cashiers, it is even more difficult, since the umber of needed cashiers is based on customer volume, which is constantly fluctuating. To...