Sales of fresh food products are a predominant feature in retail pricing around the world. Price-based sales offer significant price cuts in products for a limited time and are the most popular form of promotional sales in Europe. From a consumer perspective, it is of interest to determine...

This paper looks at policy efforts used to address the food access issues plaguing urban areas commonly referred to as food deserts. The efforts are framed as retail intervention policies, and the paper follows a structured inquiry to assess retail intervention policy effectiveness in bringing...

Recently, many jurisdictions have implemented bans or imposed taxes upon plastic grocery bags on environmental grounds. San Francisco County was the first major US jurisdiction to enact such a regulation, implementing a ban in 2007. There is evidence, however, that reusable grocery bags, a...

Objective – Based on Sheth’s (1983) integrative theory of patronage preference as the central theoretical framework, this paper examines religious influences on grocery shoppers’ behavioural intentions in Mauritius. Methodology/Technique – Using stratified random sampling method a 5...

Theoretical basis: The case explores the evolution of eCommerce into qCommerce (q for quick) in the context of post pandemic online grocery sector in India. The case enables students to revisit Hollander and McNair’s hypothesis on the wheel of retailing in the era of machine learning,...

Frequent Shopper programs are becoming ubiquitous in retailing. Retailers seem unsure however about whether these programs are leading to higher loyalty, or to higher profits. In this paper we analyze data from a US supermarket chain that has used a number of frequent shopper rewards to improve...

The Traditional Grocery market consists mainly of Kirana, Wholesalers, Grahak Panchayat, and KiranaSupermarket. Kirana shops are generally situated close to or within residential areas often in the ground floors of residential buildings. Wholesalers are situated in areas which conventionally are...

Problem Definition: We study the impact of grocery-store density on the food waste generated at stores and households. Relevance: Food waste is a major contributor to carbon emissions (as big as road transport). Identifying and influencing market conditions that can decrease food waste is thus...