Location is an impactful but irrevocable driver of retail store performance. Unless retailers rely on their gut feelings for finding high potential locations, they have to invest in extensive location research, calibrating performance models on expensive rich data (e.g., income or education of...

A product's position on the shop shelf relative to other products in the category is an important yet understated factor affecting product demand. We present a parametric demand model that interprets the location of shelf facings as a set of (potentially irregular) lattice data and thereafter...

We consider the location problem for retail service facilities, consumer-facing storefronts that provide a service and compete with other retailers to some degree or the other. Location is one of the most important strategic decisions for a retail firm. It is a risky and often an irrevocable...

We analyze the contracting problem between a shopping mall and potential anchors (large stores) in a market where consumers with high search costs must choose shopping destinations prior to learning prices. Our model incorporates the interaction between contracting and asymmetric firm sizes into...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a relative measure of efficiency applied to a set of decision units and is being used more and more frequently in the supermarket sector. Nonetheless, given how strongly the sector's financials depend on demand, companies need to combine this measurement with...

This Article examines how the law can help reduce retail vacancy rates in volatile urban real estate markets. Two potential drivers of high vacancy rates along retail corridors in otherwise healthy real estate markets are identified: (1) location risk, and (2) positive feedback effects. The...

With few exceptions, today's retailers sell products across multiple categories. One strategic consideration of such retailers is product location, which determines how easy or difficult different categories are for customers to access. For example, grocery or department stores determine which...

Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...

"The retail sector is an integral part of a national economy. From the political economy perspective, all consumer goods have surplus values locked up in them; the surplus values are not realized until the consumer goods are purchased by consumers through various distribution channels. As such,...

Geomarketing has become a critical domain for most of companies dealing with retailing and services for the three last decades. Usually, retail and service companies utilize geomarketing to make decisions about store location, trade area delineating, and customer plotting. Little by little new...

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We develop a game-theoretic model to explore why retail clusters are so popular in developing economies and when governments should facilitate the formation of retail clusters to improve social welfare. First, we find two determinants of retailer clusters: valuation-cost ratio (consumers'...

This paper makes a review of the main types of location, respectively of probability models, gravity models, utility models, location- allocation, but also of new spatial analysis instruments. In this context, we emphasize the fact that the new location models, based on a geographic information...

We survey the recent empirical literature on structural models of market entry and spatial competition in oligopoly retail industries. We start with the description of a framework that encompasses various models that have been estimated in empirical applications. We use this framework to discuss...

This paper explores the role of retailers as an urban amenity. Using data for Swedish rural and city municipalities for 2002-2008, "accessibility to shops" measures are constructed for the shops in the municipalities and in the hosting regions separately to examine the relationship between...