Nowadays Russian retail industry is going through its own "Walmart revolution" when chains are gaining a dominant position on the market crowding out small local shops. While retail markets of the US and Europe have reached stable stage of the development with only minor changes in the market...

Grocery retailing is undergoing rapid changes. New store formats and market channels, the entry of additional large players, and increasing multichannel activities on the supply side are accompanied by heterogeneous and changing consumer preferences. Retailers are increasingly competing in both...

In many developing countries, food environments are changing rapidly. One emblematic trend is the proliferation of supermarkets and other modern retailers. While changing food environments likely influence the types of foods supplied and consumed, research on the implications for people's diets...

This paper documents substantial time variation in price elasticities of demand and therefore markups. We propose a two-step procedure to identify time-varying markups. Using data of US grocery stores from 2001-2020 we first estimate elasticities at the market-good-year level. We then...

Online retailers throw out food that has not yet expired. This gives rise to the question whether online retailers generate more food waste than offline retailers, who typically throw out food only after it has expired. We focus on the food waste at the retailer which inherently ensues from the...

Improving the efficiency in the links in the supply chains of agri-food products is relevant in terms of the assessment methodology and practical aspects for ensuring and supporting sustainable supply chains of products not only in individual channels of product movement but also in the...

Background: E-commerce has emerged as a good response to the pandemic of COVID-19. However, the costs of providing a service, which includes a driver and a vehicle, in a regular vehicle that can transport goods that need positive cold (0° to 5°C) are very high. Objectives: This paper aims to...

stablishing innovative fulfillment options for online orders has become a key challenge for bricks-and-mortar retailers. A mere focus on store sales is no longer affordable due to the competition by pure online players. Retailers are continuously developing new approaches for online order...

This study investigates the relationship between household utilization of food services and retailers and the healthfulness of purchases using data from the 2013 Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey. Overall, our findings suggest that the associations between food service or retailer utilization...

Purpose: The Supply chain channel serves to strengthen positioning in competing to serve customers. This study examines the business unit in the supply chain channel in producing food products from Cowhide in Indonesia. There are many business units with high demand for rawhides from cattle for...

Produce that does not meet sellers' esthetic standards may be redirected to alternative uses or wasted, but consumer trends indicate potential marketability of blemished produce. We conduct a nonhypothetical experimental auction to elicit consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for produce of varying...

I use a structural econometric model together with sales, perishability, and marginal cost data from a grocery chain’s artisan bread category to compare two approaches for reducing grocery-store waste: dynamic pricing and organic-waste landfill bans. I estimate that switching to dynamic...

How a sustainable business model (SBM) is created for last-mile deliveries (LML) has been highlighted for a long time. However, research is limited regarding understanding the value creation process and the importance that both firms and customers are considered when creating a sustainable...

Firms often need to promise a certain level of service quality to attract customers, and a central question is how to design promises to balance the trade-off between customer acquisition and customer retention. For example, most E-commerce platforms need to promise a certain delivery time....

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,...

We analyze the impact of a temporary shock to food supply on households’ dietary choices. We use hurricane-induced closures of grocery stores, focusing on temporary closures. Results show that store closures influence households’ purchasing patterns even after the grocery store has reopened....

The Russian grocery retail industry has developed dynamically over the past two decades. The accompanying changes in competition and consumer behaviour make it an interesting subject for analysis, but full-fledged empirical studies in this area have not yet been conducted. This is largely due to...

Research on food waste has attracted particular interest in recent years. This development is relevant not only to reach the aim of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to halve food waste by 2030 but also to tackle associated problems such as the wastage of other...

This paper examines a grocery retailer’s management of a premade food product. The retailer’s goal is to maximize a weighted sum of direct profit and customer welfare. Multiple items of the product are produced in batches and displayed for sale. Considering that each item’s quality...

We study a multi-period, multi-product, dynamic pricing problem with price adjustment costs known as menu costs. In this setting, we assume that decision makers (e.g., retailers, online platforms) incur a fixed menu cost whenever prices are updated between periods, as well as a variable menu...

Although the ageing and digital age subject are increasingly discussed, there is a lack of empirical evidence focused on online food shopping behaviour among retirees. The study aims to narrow this research gap by mapping the literature on aging and online food shopping and providing insights...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on grocery retailers, forcing them to make many operational changes in response to public health concerns and the shift in customers' shopping behavior. Grocery retailers need to understand the impact of pandemic conditions on their operations, but...

This present research examines the behavioral intentions of Filipinos to use online grocery applications during the novel COVID-19 pandemic. The study proposes an integration of the health belief model (HBM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) to identify the...

Using data from a sample of residents targeted to be representative of the United States population and collected in 2019, this study examines whether the proportion of grocery shopping done online can be explained, in part, by household’s demographics and consumer’s beliefs. Thirty-one...

Ziel dieses Berichts ist die Darstellung der - im Rahmen des Dialogforums Groß- und Einzelhandel, unter Mitwirkung der teilnehmenden Handelsunternehmen - erhobenen Daten zu Lebensmittelverlusten im Handelssektor in Deutschland für das Jahr 2019. Darüber hinaus sollen die Erkenntnisse der...

The aim of this report is to map food waste in the retail and wholesale sector in Germany for the year 2019 collected as part of the Dialogue Forum on wholesale and retail trade, with the participating retail companies. In addition, the findings regarding the data basis and data collection...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie stellt die Weltwirtschaft seit Anfang 2020 vor ungekannte, massive Herausforderungen. Zwar ließ der Weltagrarhandel insgesamt keine fundamentalen Verschiebungen gegenüber Vorjahren erkennen, dennoch geht die Weltbank in Folge der Pandemie vom ersten Anstieg globaler Armut...

The Covid-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to the global economy. While aggregated agricultural trade patterns remained largely unaffected by the pandemic, the World Bank still expects global poverty to rise for the first time in more than twenty years. Since late 2020, several...