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Abe, Joji. "Administrations of the Large-scale Retail Store Locating Law." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 38 (2003): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/cpij1.38.0.44.0.
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Abe, Joji. "Administrations of the Large-scale Retail Store Locating Law." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 38.3 (2003): 259–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.38.3.259.
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Ryoji, YASUKURA. "Store Opening Adjustment of a Large-Scale Retail Store based on the Large-Scale Retail Stores Location Law: Front of Takanohara Station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line." E-journal GEO 11, no. 1 (2016): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4157/ejgeo.11.3.
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Tsuchiya, K., and P. Riethmuller. "The Japanese food distribution system and the Large Scale Retail Store Law." International Journal of Social Economics 24, no. 1/2/3 (January 1997): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03068299710161214.
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Odagiri, Tokumi, and Paul Riethmuller. "Japan's Large Scale Retail Store Law: a cause of concern for food exporters?" Agricultural Economics 22, no. 1 (January 2000): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2000.tb00005.x.
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Morimoto, Akinori, and Hirotaka Koike. "Establishment of Local Standard of traffic concerns on the Large-Scale Retail Stores Location Law." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 41 (2006): 264. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/cpij1.41.0.264.0.
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Morimoto, Akinori, and Hirotaka Koike. "Establishment of Local Standard of traffic concerns on the Large-Scale Retail Stores Location Law." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 41.3 (October 25, 2006): 133–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.41.3.133.
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Marques, Pedro Alexandre, André M. Carvalho, and José Oliveira Santos. "Improving Operational and Sustainability Performance in a Retail Fresh Food Market Using Lean: A Portuguese Case Study." Sustainability 14, no. 1 (December 31, 2021): 403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14010403.
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This paper presents a real application of a lean–green improvement initiative conducted at a large Portuguese hypermarket store. It explores how lean tools and techniques may be used to not only improve the operational performance, but also sustainability. A case study was carried out in one store of a multinational retail enterprise, with the aim of enhancing both the operational and sustainability performance in the cold meat section, one of the most relevant areas of the fresh food markets. The Gemba Kaizen event approach, which comprises three main stages, was adopted. During the workshop stage, the structured problem-solving methodology was followed, and was recorded in an A3 format. As a consequence of this project, food waste in the cold meat market was reduced by half, whereas the out-of-stock index decreased by a third. In addition, the pilot store hit top performance within all stores of the company in Portugal, ranking first in all key indicators for the cold meat market. The lean–green scope and performance improvement procedures developed and implemented in the pilot store were later deployed to other stores of the company. This is one of the first publications regarding the application of lean management in the food retail sector for improving both the operational and sustainability performance.
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Avlijas, Goran, Vesna Vukanovic Dumanovic, and Miljan Radunovic. "Measuring the Effects of Automatic Replenishment on Product Availability in Retail Stores." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (January 29, 2021): 1391. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031391.
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Maintaining product availability is one of the biggest challenges in retail business because it directly relates to lost sale and decrease in customer loyalty. A solution that ensures a more accurate prediction and eliminates costly stock-outs and wasteful overstocks is an automatic replenishment system. The goal of this paper is to measure the impact that the automatic replenishment system can have on product availability in retail business, especially when it comes to specific product and store related risk factors. A large quantitative study measured the performance of manual and automatic replenishment processes in a sample of 85 stores and 95 products of a major retail chain in Serbia. The study concluded that utilization of an automatic replenishment system can reduce stock-outs for the retail chains up to 60%. Specifically, when ordered through an automatic replenishment system, fast-selling products recorded 40% greater availability, products on promotion 48% higher availability, and products in a high-density retail stores 59% higher availability. The findings extend current understanding of automatic replenishment systems, and especially their performance related to high-risk retail conditions.
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Osada, Teppei, Akinori Morimoto, and Hirotaka Koike. "Research on Local Standard for Calculation of Parking Capacity under the Large-Scale Retail Stores Location Law." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 40.3 (2005): 385–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.40.3.385.
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Osada, Teppei, Akinori Morimoto, and Hirotaka Koike. "Research on Local Standard for Calculation of Parking Capacity under the Large-Scale Retail Stores Location Law." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 40 (2005): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/cpij1.40.0.65.0.
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Clark, Sean. "Financial Viability of an On-Farm Processing and Retail Enterprise: A Case Study of Value-Added Agriculture in Rural Kentucky (USA)." Sustainability 12, no. 2 (January 18, 2020): 708. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12020708.
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Value-added processing and direct marketing are commonly recommended strategies for increasing income and improving the economic viability of small farms. This case study uses partial budgeting to examine the performance of an on-farm store in Kentucky (USA) over a six-year period (2014–2019), intended for adding value to raw farm ingredients through processing and direct sales to consumers. Three primary product supply chains were aggregated, stored, processed, and sold through the farm store: livestock (meats), grains (flours and meals), and fresh produce (fruits, vegetables, and herbs). In addition, prepared foods were made largely from the farm’s ingredients and sold as ready-to-eat meals. Whole-farm income increased substantially as a result of the farm-store enterprise but the costs of operation exceeded the added income in every year of the study, illustrating the challenges to small farms in achieving a sufficient economy of scale in value-added enterprises. By the final two years of the study period, the enterprise was approaching break-even status. Ready-to-eat items, initially accounting for a small fraction total sales, were the most important product category by the end of the study period. This study highlights the importance of adaptability in the survival and growth of a value-adding enterprise as well as the critical role of subsidies in establishing similar enterprises, particularly in low-income, rural areas.
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Riesenegger, Lena, and Alexander Hübner. "Reducing Food Waste at Retail Stores—An Explorative Study." Sustainability 14, no. 5 (February 22, 2022): 2494. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14052494.
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Grocery retailers are in a dilemma. They often prioritize availability over other aspects due to strong competition in this sector and the imperative of realizing sales. The target for many grocery retailers has been high on-shelf availability and large variety to increase customer satisfaction. However, this policy contributes to a significant share of overstock. The economic pressure of unsold products, the environmental impact of wasted resources, and the ethical questions arising from discarding edible food, have increasingly thrown the spotlight on grocery retailers to change their strategies. Grocery retailers are thus facing a trade-off between increasing attractiveness via high availability on the one hand, and the environmental, social, and financial impacts of overstock, on the other. One common practice in dealing with overstock is mainly being reactive to mitigate the impact, using initiatives such as price promotions or donations. This explorative study investigates options for how grocery retailers can proactively reduce food waste via better planning of their store operations. Seven case companies participated in this qualitative study, where we focused on ultra-fresh products as the most important waste category. Face-to-face interviews with managers were the primary source for data collection. The heterogeneity of our sample enabled us to build a common understanding of proactive options to reduce food waste with enhanced operations. The analysis reveals six coherent and distinct topics. A basis for all proactive operational planning processes is (1) the use of a comprehensive database and information systems. This builds the foundation for (2) tailored demand forecasts related to perishable product-specific requirements. Subsequently, consideration is needed of (3) the enhanced planning of assortment sizes, (4) the definitions of differentiated service levels and (5) the tailored ordering and replenishment processes that impact food waste. Finally, (6) salvage options, such as dynamic pricing, secondary usage, and sustainable waste streams constitute valuable mitigation strategies. We formulated 15 propositions that could support the decisions of grocery retailers developing proactive food waste reduction practices. These propositions will guide future research, as they provide a coherent and cohesive picture of related topics in grocery retail operations.
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Heydari, Mohammad, Kin Keung Lai, and Xiaohu Zhou. "Creating Sustainable Order Fulfillment Processes through Managing the Risk: Evidence from the Disposable Products Industry." Sustainability 12, no. 7 (April 3, 2020): 2871. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12072871.
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Retailers face a major operational challenge in fulfilling online orders while managing their traditional store-based distribution processes. In this context, the following order fulfillment options available to retailers are considered: store-facing distribution centers (DCs), dedicated order fulfillment facilities (DTCs), retail stores, and direct-fill by vendors. The current study provides an order fulfillment evaluation for the Disposable Products Industry, which is one of the industries that have a tremendous effect over the downstream industries, as it is the source for production. Also, the differences in the factor focus are provided for various parties and countries. The results show that the order fulfillment risk factors identified from various research studies are good enough for the Disposable Products Industry, even though they are not intentionally designed for this highly diversified industry. Among them, sustainability is the most important factor that the companies in the Disposable Products Industry should pay attention to. This is because sustainability is believed to lead to large deviations in various types of order fulfillment losses and incur a higher chance of having the order fulfillment failure for the companies with an international customer base. The companies should focus on how to improve the sustainability (long-term relationships with the various parties along the chain) rather than over-emphasis on the short-term documentation accuracy as the long-term improvement is likely to result in an overall improvement in performance on order fulfillment.
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Álvarez-González, Luis, Nuria García-Rodríguez, and María Sanzo-Pérez. "Online Voluntary Transparency in Spanish Retail Firms. Measurement Index and CSR-Related Factors as Determinants." Sustainability 10, no. 10 (October 2, 2018): 3542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10103542.
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Information transparency is a key aspect of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy. The new information and communication technologies, such as the Internet, allow companies to disseminate relevant corporate information to different stakeholders and society, promoting voluntary online transparency. The analysis of social responsibility information published on corporate websites permits, among other issues, the development of disclosure and transparency indexes that facilitate comparisons between companies, and the assessment of potential drivers of the transparency strategy. In this sense, this study has two main objectives: (1) To develop a measurement index of voluntary online transparency, and (2) to identify relevant factors that influence on such transparency. The empirical research was carried out by analyzing the websites of a 176 large Spanish retail companies. Regression analysis was used to test the proposed hypotheses. The results obtained show that online voluntary transparency is encouraged by the implementation of CSR principles in store management and by the particular type of contributions in which the social commitment of the retail is materialized (monetary versus non-monetary), as well as by the fact that employees and/or society as a whole represent the main beneficiaries of CSR activities.
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Carpinelli, Camilla, Einar Torfi Einarsson Reynis, Anna Sigríður Islind, Hlynur Stefánsson, and María Óskarsdóttir. "Green Intentions: Field Research and Data-Driven Analysis of Customers’ Purchasing Patterns." Sustainability 14, no. 16 (August 10, 2022): 9863. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14169863.
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Sustainability and sustainable consumption have become key factors in the battle with global warming in general and environmental pollution in particular. To motivate consumers to make sustainable purchasing decisions, it is necessary to understand consumers’ attitudes and purchasing behavior towards green products. This study analyzed if the environmental impact of select products had measurable effects on consumers’ purchasing behavior by analyzing purchasing data from a large retail store in Iceland spanning two years. To gain insight into consumers attitude and intentions towards green products, a survey was conducted which received 166 responses, and will be used in comparison with the purchasing data analysis and testing. The main goal of this study is to analyze the gap between consumers’ intent to consumers’ actual green purchasing. The results of this study will demonstrate that there is an actual difference in this field.
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Gong, Yande, Yidan Ma, and Zhe Wang. "Omnichannel Retail Strategy Considering Cost-Sharing and Consumer Heterogeneity under Different Power Structures." Mathematics 10, no. 21 (October 28, 2022): 4004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math10214004.
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This paper explores two Omnichannel retail models consisted of one online platform and one brick-and-mortar store under different power structures considering cost-sharing mechanisms. In retail supply chain dominated by the online platform and brick-and-mortar store, respectively, under a “Buy online and pick up in store” strategy, the influences of the cost-sharing ratio and the proportion of traditional consumers on pricing and service decisions, the demands of various groups of consumers, and the performance of the retail system have been examined. In addition, the results of decision-making and profitabilities of retailers under different power structures have also been considered. The key findings show that the optimal price and service level first increase and then decrease with the cost-sharing ratio in a retail system dominated by the online platform. In contrast, the price and service level increase with the cost-sharing ratio only when the proportion of traditional consumers is relatively large in a retail system dominated by brick-and-mortar store. The symmetry demand increases as the scale of traditional consumers shrinks when the cost-sharing ratio is relatively large in a retail system dominated by the online system. At the same time, it only increases when the cost-sharing ratio is in the range of (5/8,5/6) in a retail system dominated by the brick-and-mortar store. No matter what the power structure is, the profit of the retail system always first increases and then decreases with the proportion of traditional consumers. Additionally, when the cost-sharing ratio and the proportion of traditional consumers are relatively small, the total demand in the retail system dominated by the online platform is higher than that in the retail system dominated by the brick-and-mortar store. The total profit is larger in the online platform-dominated retail system than that in the brick-and-mortar store-dominated retail system when the cost-sharing ratio is relatively high. However, when the cost-sharing ratio is relatively low, the profitability of the brick-and-mortar store-dominated retail system is stronger.
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MirHassani, S. A., and S. Mohammadyari. "Reduction of carbon emissions in VRP by gravitational search algorithm." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 25, no. 6 (September 2, 2014): 766–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-08-2013-0086.
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Purpose – Nowadays, global warming, due to large-scale emissions of greenhouse gasses, is among top environmental issues. The purpose of this paper is to present a problem involving the incorporation of environmental aspects into logistics, which provides a comparison between pollution reduction and distance-based approaches. Design/methodology/approach – In green vehicle routing problem (VRP), the aim is to model and solve an optimization problem in order to minimize the fuel consumption which results in reducing energy consumption as well as air pollution. The Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) is adapted and used as a powerful heuristic. Findings – Here, it is shown that a set of routes with minimum length is not an optimal solution for FCVRP model since the total distance is not the only effective factor for fuel consumption and vehicle's load plays an important role too. In many cases, a considerable reduction in emissions can be achieved by only an insignificant increase in costs. Research limitations/implications – Green transportation is a policy toward reducing carbon emissions. This research focussed on routes problem and introduce FCVRP model. GSA is used as a powerful heuristic to obtain high quality routes in a reasonable time. Considering other factors that affecting fuel consumption could make this study more realistic. Practical implications – When a distribution center receives all the information it needs about the demand from all the retail stores it supplies, a VRP is produced. So the models are valid for use by all goods producers and distributors. The preliminary assessment of the proposed model and method carried out on benchmark problems up to 200 nodes. Originality/value – Fuel consumption is one of the most influential factors in transportation costs. This paper introduces an innovative decision-making framework to obtain optimum routes in a vehicle routes problem considering air pollution. The results were compared from fuel consumption as well as total travel distance viewpoints.
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Kusano, Atsushi. "Japan's Nontransparent Markets and the Large-Scale Retail Law." Japanese Economic Studies 22, no. 3-4 (May 1994): 67–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/jes1097-203x22030467.
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Anusha, S., D. Satish Kumar, P. Bindu, D. S. Rao, and H. Niranjan. "A Descriptive Study of Customer’s Opinions on Factors Influencing Purchasing Decisions in Corporate Retail Stores in a City of Vijayawada." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.10 (October 2, 2018): 1029. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.10.26664.
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Corporate retail stores are today the focal points for purchasing decisions of middle and high-income groups in urban India. However, each corporate retail store has its own model of retailing. Storing different varieties of products at same locality, location advantage, self-servicing outlets, window shopping, large scale discount, specialty stores are some of the models retailing stores adopted, but all these retail models are not being popular among the consumers. Consumer’s preferences and choices are varying across different retail models. In this context the present study wants to explore significant difference among corporate retail stores in Vijayawada in consumer preference and choices.
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Satish Kumar, D., P. Bindu, D. S. Rao, S. Anusha, and J. Srinivas. "A Comparative Study of Factors Influencing Purchasing Decisions at D-Mart and Metro in Vijayawada City." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.10 (October 2, 2018): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.10.20900.
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Corporate retail stores are today the focal points for purchasing decisions of middle and high-income groups in urban India. However, each corporate retail store has its own model of retailing. Storing different varieties of products at same locality, location advantage, self-servicing outlets, window shopping, large scale discount, specialty stores are some of the models retailing stores have adopted. But all these retail models are not being popular among the consumers. Consumer’s preferences and choices are varying across different retail models. In this context the present study wants to explore significant difference among corporate retail stores in Vijayawada in consumer preference and choices.
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Miao, Sentao, Stefanus Jasin, and Xiuli Chao. "Asymptotically Optimal Lagrangian Policies for Multi-Warehouse, Multi-Store Systems with Lost Sales." Operations Research 70, no. 1 (January 2022): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.2161.
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Simple Algorithms for Complex Multiwarehouse, Multistore Inventory Control Problems Retailers (both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce) have always faced the problem of allocating inventories in their warehouses (or central distribution centers) to the stores (or smaller local warehouses) in order to minimize total costs. The problem is particularly challenging when the network structure is large and complex, the selling season is long, and the replenishment is frequent. For example, giant retail chains such as Macy’s typically have many warehouses and hundreds of stores across the United States, and online retailers such as Amazon have many distribution centers and over one hundred fulfillment centers. The authors develop algorithms to solve this multiwarehouse, multistore (MWMS) inventory control problem. Their algorithms are computationally efficient and asymptotically optimal as the problem becomes large and complex. This feature is very appealing to today’s fast-moving retail industry with rapidly expanding business scale.
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Sanz, Guillem, Rafael Pastor, and Bruno Domenech. "A step-by-step guide to assist logistics managers in defining efficient re-shelving solutions for retail store deliveries." International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management 48, no. 9 (October 1, 2018): 952–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpdlm-09-2017-0286.
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Purpose City logistics is a challenge in many cities. Literature works focus on the analysis of large or local-scale solutions to increase the efficiency of freight transport. However, store deliveries from the perspective of practitioners, particularly retail stores, are still an issue. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to propose a decision framework to assist logistics managers in defining efficient re-shelving solutions for store deliveries, according to the emplacement characteristics, city administration constraints and social issues. Design/methodology/approach An iterative step-by-step decision framework is developed, which allows taking decisions in a clear and structured way, including the preferences of key stakeholders. Moreover, a “what if” procedure is proposed, aiming to modify some initial conditions of the target store to achieve more efficient solutions. Findings The proposed decision framework is applicable in practice and helps users (mainly logistics managers) to identify solutions for efficient re-shelving in urban settings. Research limitations/implications The decision framework is applied by the logistics manager of two Spanish food retail stores, but it could be used in different logistics sectors and cities/regions, although adapting the decisions taken at each phase. Practical implications Logistics managers have a support tool when addressing re-shelving solutions for store deliveries. Social implications A balance can be found between company interests (minimise costs) and citizens quality of life (less contamination, noise, traffic, etc.). Originality/value This study simultaneously deals with large- and local-scale decisions faced by logistics managers in their day-to-day activity, considering details about the store location, its surroundings and the company it belongs.
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Jiang, Xiaolong, and Mishal Sohail. "Evaluation Method of Human Resource Management Efficiency of Chain Retail Enterprises Based on Distributed Database." Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 2022 (February 1, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1860426.
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The calculation of human resource management efficiency evaluation method is large, which affects the technical efficiency and scale efficiency of evaluation results. Based on distributed database, an evaluation method of human resource management efficiency of chain retail enterprises is proposed. Genetic algorithm is applied to the design of distributed database to realize the best data allocation scheme. The distributed database is used to store the human resource information of chain retail enterprises to ensure the data consistency and information availability. Select the input and output elements that can best reflect the human resource management status of chain retail enterprises in the distributed database, design the management efficiency evaluation index system, and construct the DEA evaluation model. After testing, the technical efficiency and scale efficiency of the design method in this paper are higher than the evaluation methods of human resource management efficiency of chain retail enterprises based on principal component analysis and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, which is conducive to management decision-making.
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Wang, Rui, Xuanli Xie, and Hao Ma. "Evolution of omni-channel business models: a new community-based omni-channel and data-enabled ecosystem." Journal of Contemporary Marketing Science 4, no. 3 (December 7, 2021): 385–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcmars-11-2020-0045.
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PurposeThe authors seek to crack the model of new retail by outlining the unique business model known as community-based omni-channel and data-enabled ecosystem.Design/methodology/approachThe study’s analyses of Hema cases and other examples reveal a new omni-channel model, a community-based and data-enabled ecosystem model.FindingsThe ecosystem targets local customers within a limited geographical range. It is also data-enabled and effectively leverages large-scale data on consumers, store operations, supply chains and logistics to ensure the smooth functioning of the ecosystem.Originality/valueThe authors hope the typology brings new insights to the development of omni-channel retail.
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Parker, James, David Glew, Martin Fletcher, Felix Thomas, and Christopher Gorse. "Accounting for refrigeration heat exchange in energy performance simulations of large food retail buildings." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 38, no. 3 (October 28, 2016): 253–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624416675389.
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Heat exchange between chilled food storage and conditioned spaces in large food retail stores is not currently required as part of design stage regulatory compliance energy performance models. Existing work has identified that this exchange has a significant impact on store energy demand and subsequently leads to unrealistic assessment of building performance. Research presented in this article uses whole building dynamic thermal simulation models that are calibrated against real store performance data, quantifying the impact of the refrigeration driven heat exchange. Proxy refrigerated units are used to simulate the impact of these units for the sales floor areas. A methodology is presented that allows these models to be simplified with the aim of calculating a realistic process heat exchange for refrigeration and including this in thermal simulation models; a protocol for the measurement of chilled sales areas and their inclusion in the building models is also proposed. It is intended that this modelling approach and the calculated process heat exchange inputs can be used to improve the dynamic thermal simulation of large food retail stores, reduce gaps between predicted and actual performance and provide more representative inputs for design stage and regulatory compliance energy calculations. Practical application: The modelling methodology and research findings presented in the article are of practical use for building energy modelling engineers using dynamic simulation models to design and/or evaluate the energy performance of large food retail stores. The methodology can be used in the design of new facilities or the evaluation of large scale retrofit projects. It is also of practical interest to energy and facility managers within large food retail organisations as it will aid their understanding of applied energy performance models.
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Hirche, Christian F., Tammo H. A. Bijmolt, and Maarten J. Gijsenberg. "When Offline Stores Reduce Online Returns." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (June 27, 2022): 7829. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14137829.
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Among the dark sides of contemporary multi-channel retailing are the vast amounts of product returns, especially in the online channel. High product returns not only put pressure on the retailers’ profitability, but also come at high societal and environmental costs. A central question then is whether multi-channel retailers can use their offline stores to help reduce product returns in the online channel without harming online sales. In an empirical study, we address this issue using data from a large Dutch shoe retailer. We develop a novel spatial model to estimate the influence of proximate retail stores on customers’ online shopping behavior, while controlling for spatial and customer heterogeneity. Results demonstrate that an increased offline channel presence indeed reduces online returns, depending on the product’s risk profile, without significantly lowering online sales. Offline stores can thus be an effective and appealing way for retailers to mitigate the negative impact of online shopping related to product returns.
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Guo, Xinmei, Bo Rong, Yang Cheng, and Xiaofeng Zhang. "RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCE FACTORS OF FRESH STORE LAYOUT ON CONSUMERS' BEHAVIOR IN BEIJING." International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 25, Supplement_1 (July 1, 2022): A101—A102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyac032.137.
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Abstract Background In recent years, the development of online retail has faced difficulties, intensified competition and reduced dividends. At the same time, the development situation of offline retail is still grim, retail enterprises are forced to transform, and the new retail format of deep integration of online and offline has developed rapidly in China. Fresh hippo is its typical representative. It implements the sales model of “supermarket + catering”, and stores provide fresh retail, processing and takeout services. Studying the spatial layout of fresh HEMA store can provide a scientific reference for the location of new retail enterprises. This study examines the influence mechanism of consumer emotion and emotion from the perspective of consumer psychology. Subjects and methods Using the POI data of 2021 Beijing fresh blood horse store, the spatial distribution of fresh blood horses was described by standard deviation ellipse analysis, buffer analysis, kernel density estimation and average nearest neighbor index. Combined with consumer psychology, this paper discusses the factors affecting their location choice, and uses binary logistic model to verify it. At the same time, in order to verify the impact of spatial layout on consumers' emotion, this study uses relevant scales to investigate. (1) Positive emotion scale. The Panas emotion scale developed by Wason and others is widely used to measure emotion. The scale includes two dimensions of positive emotion and negative emotion as measurement indicators. There are 6 questions in this dimension, which are scored by Likert 5 points (1 means “very inconsistent”, 5 means “very consistent”, the same below). In this study, the clonbach coefficient of the questionnaire is 0.90. (2) Motivation scale. The topic of measuring motivation mainly refers to the entrepreneurial motivation scale compiled by Phan, which has 8 questions and adopts Likert's 5-point scoring. (3) Social support scale. The scale is adapted from the social support scale prepared by Ye Yuemei and others. It has 8 questions and is scored by Likert 5 points. Clone Bach of the scale α the coefficient is 0.87. (4) Behavioral propensity scale. Entrepreneurial orientation dimension in intention measurement [4]. The scale has 6 questions and is scored by Likert 5 points. The clonbach coefficient of the scale is 0.95. Results The fresh blood horse shop was distributed in the Northeast southwest direction around the center of Beijing, with a low high low radial distribution; Its high-value core density area is located between the second ring road and the Fourth Ring Road in Beijing, close to large commercial areas or communities, presenting a multi center structure. The distribution of stores is mutually exclusive and scattered. In urban areas, the location of stores is greatly affected by the population, subway traffic environment and store rent level, while the distribution of traditional retail competitors has little impact, which can meet the convenience needs of consumers Conclusions “Supermarket + catering” new retail stores should increase the layout of residents' activity places such as main business districts and office buildings, and launch convenience stores that more meet the needs of the site; Strengthen the layout of the suburbs and reduce the operation cost of stores while occupying the new retail market in the suburbs; Increase the layout in areas with convenient transportation, take advantage of transportation advantages, expand the distribution scope, consider the distribution of competitors in space, and avoid excessive competition, so as to optimize the layout of stores and expand enterprise profits. The suggestions of this paper can not only provide reference for the spatial layout and location improvement of “supermarket + catering” new stores, but also provide reference for the layout of other new stores, which has certain practical significance. However, the research scope of this paper is relatively small. This will be improved in future research. In short, the important influence of spatial layout design factors on consumers' emotions should be fully taken into account, the changes of their psychological emotions and behaviors and their impact on positive and active behaviors should be actively concerned, and efforts should be made to tune builders, managers, coordinators and collaborators. Acknowledgments Supported by a project grant from the key project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission’s Social Science Program “Research on the Reasonable Utilization of Space for Evacuation and Retreat in Beijing” (SZ201910011004), the key project of the National Social Science Fund “Study on the extended trend, structural causes and countermeasures of currency fluctuations in the new era”; and Beijing Philosophy and Society Phased Achievements of Scientific Capital Circulation Industry Research Base (JD-YB-2021-40).
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Cummins, Steven, Anne Findlay, Cassie Higgins, Mark Petticrew, Leigh Sparks, and Hilary Thomson. "Reducing Inequalities in Health and Diet: Findings from a Study on the Impact of a Food Retail Development." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 40, no. 2 (February 2008): 402–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a38371.
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The health and diet impacts of a large-scale food retail development within a deprived area of Glasgow (Springburn) are reported. The study used a prospective quasi-experimental design which compared changes in diet and psychological health in an area where a new hypermarket was built (the intervention area) with a similarly deprived comparison area in Glasgow (Shettleston). A postal survey was undertaken both before and one year after the hypermarket was built, to assess changes in diet, self-reported health, and perceptions of neighbourhood. Changes in the retail structure of both areas were assessed through a ‘before-and-(repeated)-after’ intervention shop count survey. Qualitative data on diet, the neighbourhood, and the impact of the store were collected through focus groups. The quantitative study found limited improvements in diet and health. There was weak evidence for the impact of the hypermarket on population diet. There was weak evidence that poor psychological health in the intervention area reduced. Amongst those who ‘switched’ to the new hypermarket there was weak evidence of a small improvement in mean fruit and vegetable consumption but good evidence of psychological health improvement. Qualitative and retail survey results reinforce this, identifying perceptions of areal improvement through redevelopment and a small positive impact of the new store on the retail structure of the intervention area.
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양만식. "The Implication and Business Regulation on the Large Scale Store - In Japanese law -." Dankook Law Riview 38, no. 4 (December 2014): 3–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17252/dlr.2014.38.4.001.
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Nagyová, Ľudmila, Jana Stávková, and Zuzana Tonkovičová. "Selected characteristics of Slovak consumers purchasing behaviour." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 56, no. 6 (2008): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun200856060069.
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Objective of the paper is to point out selected patterns of Slovak consumers based on analysis of buying behaviour. Results of presented survey of consumer buying patterns and preferences have pointed out key characteristics of buying behaviour of Slovak consumers. We’re able to confirm that new business companies as hypermarket and supermarket became main place for food shopping. Totally 72% of respondents indicated them as the type of store where they spend largest share of food expenses. The self-service shop, traditional business units, is still the shopping place for 14% of respondents. The most important factors influencing selection of the type of store are closeness and location of the store, assortment and product quality, store personnel and price level. More than half of the respondents consider opening times the key service for choosing the place for shopping. 49.6% of respondents is using car to do shopping, 35.5% of respondents walk. 32.5% of respondents is using advertising leaflets to plan what to buy. 14.6% of respondents answered that even though receiving leaflets, they don’t read them. 31.3% of respondents are holders of loyalty cards. Most visited retail chain is Tesco.Currently building of large-scale business formats slowed down and retail chains try to get closer towards customer not only by reducing floor space but above all by locating the stores in the centre of cities with lower population.
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Kaul, Subhashini. "Measuring Retail Service Quality: Examining Applicability of International Research Perspectives in India." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 32, no. 1 (January 2007): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920070102.
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Service quality is being increasingly perceived as a tool to increase value for the consumer; and as a means of positioning in a competitive environment to ensure consumer satisfaction, retention, and patronage. Existing research indicates that consumers satisfied with the store�s service quality are most likely to remain loyal. However, despite its strategic importance, Indian retailers do not have an appropriate and established instrument to measure service quality. This study examines the Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS) developed in the US for applicability in India. RSQS has five dimensions and six sub-dimensions and has been found appropriate in a variety of settings — across different countries such as South Africa and Singapore and across a variety of store types such as supermarkets, department stores, and hyper stores. The five dimensions — Physical Aspects, Reliability, Personal Interaction, Problem Solving, and Policy�are believed to capture distinct though correlated aspects of retail service. Each of the first three dimensions has two sub-dimensions. These six sub-dimensions, also called the first-order factors, are labelled as Appearance, Convenience, Promises, Doingit-Right, Inspiring Confidence, and Courteousness/Helpfulness. The dimensions and sub-dimensions provide strategic focus areas for retailers, enabling them to improve certain aspects of store service where performance is relatively poor. Data using a survey questionnaire from 144 adult shoppers at large format apparel stores in the city of Bangalore indicates that: The RSQS dimensions and sub-dimensions are not clearly identifiable. The dimension of �Physical Appearance� is the only one that is relatively clear. All other dimensions are ill-defined. The dimension of ‘Problem-Solving’ is hazy and all the remaining dimensions of RSQS comprise one factor. RSQS has limited diagnostic application. Consequently, retailers would find RSQS a poor instrument to help identify strategic areas requiring focus to improve service levels. The scale can, at best, be employed to assess overall service quality levels and for tracking overall improvements over a period of time. RSQS is inappropriate for application in Indian retail. Pre-test interviews of shoppers indicate that several service aspects mentioned by shoppers during interviews are not included in RSQS. Much future research is needed to develop a scale appropriate for the Indian context.
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Asano, Shuhei, and Akinori Morimoto. "A Study on the Assessment of Urban Function Induction Zones Based on the Maneuver of Large-Scale Retail Store." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 53, no. 3 (October 25, 2018): 1000–1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.53.1000.
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Akatsu, Norio. "An approach to application of simulation techniques for a parking lot layout change of the large-scale retail store." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 49, no. 3 (2014): 387–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.49.387.
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HORIIKE, Shun, and Katsunori NAGANO. "DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ONE OF THE LARGEST GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS IN A LARGE-SCALE RETAIL STORE." Journal of Environmental Engineering (Transactions of AIJ) 80, no. 709 (2015): 249–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3130/aije.80.249.
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Murillo, Bianca. "‘THE MODERN SHOPPING EXPERIENCE’: KINGSWAY DEPARTMENT STORE AND CONSUMER POLITICS IN GHANA." Africa 82, no. 3 (July 27, 2012): 368–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972012000290.
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ABSTRACTDespite the perception that department stores are a recent phenomenon in West Africa, modern indoor retail spaces have existed in its major cities since the mid-twentieth century. This article uses the history of Kingsway Department Store in Accra as a lens to understand emerging political, economic and social tensions in post-colonial Ghana. Drawing on United Africa Company (UAC) records, staff reports and inspection findings, as well as local newspapers, advertising and oral interviews, I demonstrate how legacies of colonial capitalism, struggles for political independence and negotiations over what constituted the ‘modern’ fuelled both local and foreign support of the project. For the UAC, investment was an opportunity to legitimize its activities in a newly independent Ghana and a means to shed its image as a colonial merchant firm. While local authorities were divided on whether large-scale retail developments should be part of an expanding post-colonial city, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah thought the store might provide a key component in constructing his vision of a new modern nation. However, the presence of white-collar working women, young managers supervising older employees, and the mixing of white expatriate and African shoppers exacerbated social conflicts – challenging local and colonial notions of authority based on race, gender and age.
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Grodzki, Erika, Stefanie Powers, and Andrew Burnstine. "Attracting millennial consumers in the digital age." Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia, no. 18 (February 7, 2019): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/snp.2018.18.02.
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This study focuses on the recent fall of many large scale department stores (Macy’s, J. C. Penney Company, Sear’s, Kmart) and other retail, pharmacy and grocery stores (Bebe, Whole Foods, CVS, Chico’s, Limited, Radio Shack, Game Stop) across the United States. The researchers set out to discover why stores that have existed for years suddenly had to shut down physical locations. The researchers hypothesized that these retail outlets have failed to properly attract millennial consumers. Marketers are endlessly attempting to find solutions on how to best attract millennials in this digital age. What appears to be evident, though, is that the habits of this demographic prefer the ease provided by online shopping. Secondary sources were reviewed to determine exactly why the stores have fallen. The millennial culture was a key component of the study. The results suggest that the stores failed due to improper targeting and in-store attraction.
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Jena, Sanjay Dominik, Andrea Lodi, Hugo Palmer, and Claudio Sole. "A Partially Ranked Choice Model for Large-Scale Data-Driven Assortment Optimization." INFORMS Journal on Optimization 2, no. 4 (October 2020): 297–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ijoo.2019.0037.
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The assortment of products carried by a store has a crucial impact on its success. However, finding the right mix of products to attract a large portion of the customers is a challenging task. Several mathematical models have been proposed to optimize assortments. Most of them are based on discrete choice models that represent the buying behavior of the customers. Among them, rank-based choice models have been acknowledged for representing well high-dimensional product substitution effects and, therefore, reflect customer preferences in a reasonably realistic manner. In this work, we extend the concept of (strictly) fully ranked choice models to models with partial ranking that additionally allow for indifference among subsets of products, that is, on which the customer does not have a strict preference. We show that partially ranked choice models are theoretically equivalent to fully ranked choice models. We then propose an embedded column-generation procedure to efficiently estimate partially ranked choice models from historical transaction and assortment data. The subproblems involved can be efficiently solved by using a growing preference tree that represents partially ranked preferences, enabling us to learn preferences and optimize assortments for thousands of products. Computational experiments on artificially generated data and a case study on real industrial retail data suggest that our proposed methods outperform existing algorithms in terms of scalability, prediction accuracy, and quality of the obtained assortments.
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Bartels, Jos, Machiel J. Reinders, and Mariet Van Haaster- De Winter. "Perceived sustainability initiatives: retail managers’ intrinsic and extrinsic motives." British Food Journal 117, no. 6 (June 8, 2015): 1720–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-11-2014-0362.
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Purpose – Although awareness of environmental sustainability has increased over the past few decades, the current market share of sustainable products remains low. Because of their market position, large-scale and high-volume consumer interactions, food retailers are appropriate venues to entice consumers to buy more sustainable foods. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which food retailers are perceived to have embedded sustainability initiatives in their marketing strategies and to have taken sustainable tactical measures on the store floor. In addition, the study considered the roles played by social identification (SI) and by perceived external prestige (PEP). Design/methodology/approach – Based on a literature review and semi-structured qualitative interviews with the chief executive officers (CEOs) of Dutch food retailers, the authors conducted an online panel survey among the managers of these food retailers. Findings – The results of the study show the positive impacts of managers’ SI with a sustainable consumer group and managers’ PEP on the perceived environmental sustainability initiatives of Dutch food retailers. The study finds that managers’ SIs are powerful ways to engender employee loyalty. Moreover, organisations that are perceived to have more external prestige are perceived as being more capable of developing sustainability policies. Originality/value – The current study combines views from CEOs of large Dutch food retailers with supermarket manager’s perceptions of sustainability initiatives on a strategical and tactical level of an organisation. It uses insights from CSR, food retail and SI theory literature to explain these perceptions.
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Erdogan, Murside Rabia, Selin Metin Camgoz, Mehmet Baha Karan, and M. Hakan Berument. "The switching behavior of large-scale electricity consumers in The Turkish electricity retail market." Energy Policy 160 (January 2022): 112701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112701.
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Anand, Shruti. "Mystery Shopping: A Marvelous Tool in the Hands of Organized Retailers." International Journal of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Research 1, no. 1 (October 24, 2015): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/ijmier.2015.114.
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Customer engagement is a key to the success of organized retail. Now-a-days, retailers engage their customers by luring them with various facilities. It is through customer engagement that they are able to provide a long lasting experience to customers. This provides a competitive advantage and becomes the ultimate reason for customer attraction. It is the in-store experience of customer that adds on to the frequency of their visit. Experience though once gained has a long effect, but it needs to be replicated to give an everlasting effect. Feedback received from customer is not only a prime source of information but also an effective tool to manage customer relation in a manner where it would fulfill expectations of customer and organization as well. Often the large size of operation becomes a challenge for the organized retailer in maintaining close relationship with each customer. Notwithstanding various technological involvements in the working environment of retailers, they still lag behind in getting feedback of customer experience in the store. Feedback given to them is generally in a hurry or mostly vague. Absence of feedback is slowly and gradually creating a lacuna between organized retailers and customers. The concept of mystery shopping has evolved in order to cope with this challenge. This paper is conceptual in nature and hovers around mystery shopping. The objective is to explain in detail its relevance and significance for organized retailers. Application of mystery shopping might prove to be a significant tool in the hands of organized retailers as it provides first-hand information which helps to bridge the communication gap between the organized retailer and customer.
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Kommey, Benjamin, Elvis Tamakloe, and Eliel Keelson. "A Supermarket Anti-Theft Scanner : digiSCAN." Journal of Innovation Information Technology and Application (JINITA) 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.35970/jinita.v4i1.1314.
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Supermarket shopping is an essential part of the livelihood of most people around the world. Consumers can acquire items essential for their daily activities. However, in an ever-evolving world with an increasing population and increasing crime rates, supermarket theft is becoming a prevalent problem with supermarket owners spending large sums of money on hiring security often with little effect. Organized Retail Crime (ORC) costs the retail industry approximately $30 billion each year, with 71.3% of retailers reporting an increase in ORC year-over-year. With the current global economic conditions, high labor costs are longer feasible. Consumers also face the issue of paying for items they did not select. Advanced camera systems, for some, may be an escape however, this approach is not feasible for all aspects of shopping and in underdeveloped countries that have technical constraints. The advent of digitization has helped improve the livelihood of consumers in Ghana. Currently, many large-scale retailers are oblivious to some of these advancements. The oblivion of the management of such retail services results in the loss of products, customer dissatisfaction, and the mismanagement of untracked products by employees. To reduce theft and the mismanagement of products by employees, a smart antitheft system should be deployed in supermarkets; at the till and before the exit of supermarkets to ensure all products leaving the store are paid for and accounted for. The system consists of a deactivation and theft detection system. The product is deactivated by the store attendant at the till when the customer pays for the product. However, if a customer crosses the initial warning zone without paying, a warning sound is triggered and after the customer crosses the final warning zone, the alarm is triggered indicating an attempted theft by the customer. A log of products is also kept ensuring employees are not stealing products. This paper presents a smart way of detecting theft during supermarket shopping using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and tags, a microcontroller-based control system, a database server, and an Integromat.
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Kommey, Benjamin, Elvis Tamakloe, and Eliel Keelson. "A Supermarket Anti-Theft RFID Scanner : digiSCAN." Journal of Innovation Information Technology and Application (JINITA) 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.35970/jinita.v4i1.1428.
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Supermarket shopping is an essential part of the livelihood of most people around the world. Consumers can acquire items essential for their daily activities. However, in an ever-evolving world with an increasing population and increasing crime rates, supermarket theft is becoming a prevalent problem with supermarket owners spending large sums of money on hiring security often with little effect. Organized Retail Crime (ORC) costs the retail industry approximately $30 billion each year, with 71.3% of retailers reporting an increase in ORC year-over-year. With the current global economic conditions, high labor costs are longer feasible. Consumers also face the issue of paying for items they did not select. Advanced camera systems, for some, may be an escape however, this approach is not feasible for all aspects of shopping and in underdeveloped countries that have technical constraints. The advent of digitization has helped improve the livelihood of consumers in Ghana. Currently, many large-scale retailers are oblivious to some of these advancements. The oblivion of the management of such retail services results in the loss of products, customer dissatisfaction and the mismanagement of untracked products by employees. To reduce theft and the mismanagement of products by employees, a smart antitheft system should be deployed in supermarkets; at the till and before the exit of supermarkets to ensure all products leaving the store are paid for and accounted for. The system consists of a deactivation and theft detection system. The product is deactivated by the store attendant at the till when the customer pays for the product. However, if a customer crosses the initial warning zone without paying, a warning sound is triggered and after the customer crosses the final warning zone, the alarm is triggered indicating an attempted theft by the customer. A log of products is also kept ensuring employees are not stealing products. This paper presents a smart way of detecting theft during supermarket shopping using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and tags, microcontroller-based control system, a database server and an Integromat
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Ishfaq, Rafay, C. Clifford Defee, Brian J. Gibson, and Uzma Raja. "Realignment of the physical distribution process in omni-channel fulfillment." International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management 46, no. 6/7 (July 4, 2016): 543–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpdlm-02-2015-0032.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the realignment of the physical distribution process for store-based retailers in their efforts to integrate the online channel into their business model. Multiple attributes of the physical distribution process are evaluated to identify associations with order fulfillment methods adopted by omni-channel retailers. Design/methodology/approach – A multi-method approach is used which includes qualitative evaluation of 50 interviews of supply chain executives from large retailers. Additionally, secondary data about firm size, store and distribution networks, online sales, distribution configuration, and order delivery options are used. The findings of qualitative analysis are incorporated into a quantitative classification-tree analysis to identify associations among distribution attributes, order fulfillment methods and order delivery services. Findings – Retailers are developing a consistent omni-channel physical distribution process in which stores undertake a bigger role in order fulfillment and delivery. Level of online sales, size of distribution network, number of sales associates at a store, and number of years engaged in the online channel are identified as having strong associations with the type of order fulfillment method used by omni-channel retailers. The study finds that retailers are focussed on integrating their store and DC inventories and have the benefit of scale with a large store network. Practical implications – Retailers are reconfiguring their physical distribution processes in the complex omni-channel environment can use the findings of this study to evaluate their strategy and identify the level of realignment effort that is needed. A better understanding of the requirements of physical distribution in an omni-channel setting will guide retailers in developing requisite operational capabilities. Originality/value – This paper provides a first in-depth look at order fulfillment choices in omni-channel retail and identifies efforts that are underway to realign key elements of the physical distribution process.
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Spilková, Jana, and Radim Perlín. "Czech Physical Planning at the Crossroads: Towards the Regulation of Large-Scale Retail Developments?" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2010): 290–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c08116.
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The second half of the 1990s saw a dynamic development of Czech retailing and its spatial structure. Recent massive development of large-area commercial outlets in particular has revealed some problematic aspects and has also raised the question of whether their construction needs to be regulated. The role of local government in the decision processes concerning such developments is extremely weak and these processes are also complicated by a notably high level of bureaucracy. Although legislative documents proclaim the concept of sustainability as a key principle of future spatial development, its practical application will always depend on the will of the individual participants in the negotiation process. The authors argue that if a regulative approach to planning is chosen in the Czech Republic, planning offices must be respected bodies with enforceable rights and bound to act as strong authorities and effective agents of spatial plnning.
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Takahashi, Kohei, and Yusuke Goto. "Embedding-Based Potential Sales Forecasting of Bread Product." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 26, no. 2 (March 20, 2022): 236–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2022.p0236.
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In this study, we investigate the potential sales forecasts of unhandled bread products in retail stores based on factory shipment data. An embedding-based forecasting method that uses large-scale information network embedding (LINE) and simultaneously considers first- and second-order proximities is developed to define similar neighboring stores using their product–store relationship and to predict their potential sales volume. LINE is a network-embedding method that transforms network data into a low-dimensional distributed representation and requires a low computation time, even when applied to large networks. The results show that our proposed method outperforms a simple prediction method (Baseline) and t-SNE, a well-known dimensionality reduction method for high-dimensional data, in terms of accurate product sales prediction via simulation experiments. Furthermore, we conduct a sensitivity analysis to verify the applicability of our proposed method when the forecasting target is expanded to products sold in fewer stores and in stores with less product variety.
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Araldi, Alessandro. "Towards an Integrated Methodology for Model and Variable Selection Using Count Data: An Application to Micro-Retail Distribution in Urban Studies." Urban Science 4, no. 2 (April 28, 2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4020021.
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Over the last two decades, a growing number of works in urban studies have revealed how micro-retail distribution is significantly related to specific properties of the urban built environment. While a wide variety of urban form measures have been investigated using sophisticated analytical approaches, the same attention has not equally been found in statistical procedures. Several essential features of micro-retail statistical distribution and modelling assumptions are frequently overlooked, compromising the statistical robustness of outcomes. In this work we focus on four main aspects: (i) the discrete, non-negative and highly skewed nature of store distribution; (ii) its zero-inflation; (iii) assessment of the contextual effect; and (iv) the multicollinearity generated by the inclusion of highly related urban descriptors. To overcome these limitations, we propose an integrated methodological framework for both modelling and variable selection assessment based on generalized linear models (GLMs) and elastic-net (Enet) penalized regression (PR), respectively. The procedure is tested via a real case study of the French Riviera, which is described using a large dataset of 105 street-based urban form measures. The outcomes of this procedure show the superiority of the zero-inflate negative binomial count regression approach. A restricted number of urban form properties are found to be related to the micro-retail distribution depending on the specific scale and morphological context under analysis.
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Lu, Weite, Masaru Kiyota, and Koji Ishibashi. "The Limit of Disabled Parking Identification Card System at a Large-scale Retail Store and Making a New Design Concept of Disabled Parking." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 49, no. 1 (2014): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.49.59.
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Stern, Dieter. "‘Nado minimum!’." Inner Asia 17, no. 1 (April 21, 2015): 5–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340031.
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This article deals with the impact of a major redesign of public space at a cross-border market on the Russian—Chinese border on customer—seller interrelations. The location in question is the Chinese border town of Manzhouli, which, over the last two decades, has risen to become a bustling town of cross-border tourism and retail trade. It will be shown that the large-scale replacement of makeshift market stalls by huge, ostentatious department store buildings is paralleled by the way Chinese traders try to impose a more restricted and rule-governed price regime in their interactions with Russian customers. Russian customers react to this recent shift in appearance and behaviour by sticking to received perceptions of the border as a place outside orderly society and will accordingly reject the Chinese reinterpretation of the cross-border market location.
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Yang, Xu, and Zhang. "Can Design for the Environment be Worthwhile? Green Design for Manufacturers Brands When Confronted with Competition from Store Brands." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (February 3, 2020): 1078. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12031078.
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To contribute to global sustainability, many manufacturers are starting to implement green product development and trying to provide environmentally friendly products. Although green products are environmentally beneficial to our society, the performance of green product development remains poor because of cannibalization from traditional alternatives at lower prices. This is particularly the case in the current unforgiving marketing reality in which many brand retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, and Carrefour, offer their own store brands as traditional alternatives. Although a large stream of research has studied the effects of competition on manufacturers’ green design, to the best of our knowledge, there is a dearth of research on the effects of competition from retailers’ store brands on manufacturers’ green design. To fill this gap, we present two models in which the manufacturer has an incentive to design for the environment, and the retailer has the flexibility to sell store brands (Model S), or it does not (Model N). Surprisingly, our analysis indicates that the presence of store brands may stimulate the manufacturer to release a new greener version of the national brand. Moreover, we find that although the presence of store brands is beneficial to the retailer and industry, it always hurts the manufacturer’s profitability. To incentivize the manufacturer to support Model S, we propose a two-part tariff contract.