The history of retailing has become an area of growing scholarly interest over the last few decades, with publications mainly concerning the national historiography of retail and wholesaling. On the other hand, although the retail sector is considered to be one of the most historically...

This paper studies the single-warehouse assortment selection problem that aims to minimize the order fulfillment cost under the cardinality constraint. We propose two types of fulfillment-related cost functions, which correspond to different preferences toward spillover fulfillment and...

An Online Grocery Store permits a customer to submit online orders for items and/or services from a store that serves both walk-in customers and online customers. The online store system presents an online display of all the items they want to sell. This Application helps customers to choose...

The rapid transformation of retail sector as an organized business segment shows the importance of supply Chain Management. In this context the progress in developing trust with the customer plays a vital role. In recent years, competency level of retail sectors is influenced by the Supply Chain...

In der Marketingpraxis und der Marketingwissenschaft sind in den vergangenen Jahren Fragestellungen der strategischen Marketingplanung in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses gerückt. Kenntnisse über Grundbegriffe der strategischen Marketingplanung, Informationssysteme, Aufbau und Systematik von...

From the perspective of an existing retailer, the optimal size of a cluster of retail activity represents a trade-off between the marginal increases in consumer attraction from another store against the depletion of the customer base caused by an additional competitor. We estimate opening and...

Using a stimulus-organism-response (S–O–R) framework, this study examines the S–R relationship of consumer retail behavior. In particular, we focus on how the multi-attributes of department store in customer perception effect their preference by studying three department stores in Central...

I estimate the aggregate income elasticity of Wal-Mart's and Target's revenues using quarterly data for 1997-2006. I find that Wal-Mart's revenues increase during bad times, whereas Target's revenues decrease, consistent with Wal-Mart selling "inferior goods" in the technical sense of the term....

Online prices are increasingly being used for a variety of inflation measurement and research applications, yet little is know about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. This paper presents the results of the first large-scale comparison of...

Online prices are increasingly being used for a variety of inflation measurement and research applications, yet little is know about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. This paper presents the results of the first large-scale comparison of...

The purpose of this paper is to explore knowledge about the influences of e-service quality and technology acceptance model (TAM) on e-satisfaction, loyalty, and online purchase intention in online department store in Bangkok, Thailand. The online model was developed based on e-service quality...

“Profit without profit” – there are innumerable examples of entrepreneurial initiatives under the headings of social entrepreneurship and social business that provide a market-economy perspective, in the best sense, to support charitable and governmental efforts to solve social problems....