We study an increasingly popular retail practice called pickup partnership that allows online retailers to offer an in-store pickup service by partnering with a physical store. In practice, online retailers use two policies for such partnerships: (i) paying a fixed fee for each pickup order to...

Firms such as Wal-Mart and Campbell's Soup have successfully implemented vendor managed inventory (VMI). Articles in the trade press and academic literature often begin with the premise that VMI is ‘beneficial'; but beneficial to which party and under what conditions? We consider in this paper...