This thesis explores how a `change-over-fixture', a store fixture that transforms its shape and purpose, will help retailers keep up with the various aspects of merchandising needs as well as create a competitive advantage over many years. With Big Box retailers on the rise and an abundance of...

This project began with the question: What keeps us from achieving sustainable happiness, happiness for ourselves and future generations?I have chosen to focus on the citizen/consumer conflict which occurs when our consumer choices are incongruous with our moral obligations to society. This...

State trading is a common feature in the management of imports and exports of agricultural products and it has been a long-standing feature of China’s agricultural trade regime. While the use of state trading was modified by China’s accession to the WTO, it remains a dominant feature for...