JAPANESE CONVENIENCE STORES AND E-RETSUS An Alternative Approach to Capturing an E-Commerce Advantage

Japanese Business Models for Electronic Commerce: Laying the Foundation of a Ubiquitous Networking Infrastructure with Mobile Phones and Convenience Stores

A Classification of Internet Retail Stores

We describe an empirical method for classifying Internet retail sites for electronic commerce. The technique used 35 observable Internet retail site attributes and features of on-line stores as the raw data to classify the on-line stores into meaningful groups. This paper presents a classification of on-line retail stores based upon an August 1996 convenience sample of 137 Internet retail store...

The Study of Customer Segmentation Examined by Catastrophe Model

Convenience stores in Taiwan have made remarkable successes with retail delivery services by integrating E-commerce and logistics systems to form a new retail delivery model: “On-line shopping with pick-ups at convenience stores.” Although choice behavior has been discussed in marketing, few studies describe the non-linear characteristic of choice behavior. The catastrophe model was used to ana...

The 3D virtual environment online for real shopping

The development of information technology and Internet has led to rapidly progressed in e-commerce and online shopping, due to the convenience that they provide consumers. E-commerce and online shopping are still not able to fully replace onsite shopping. In contrast, conventional online shopping websites often cannot provide enough information about a product for the customer to make an inform...

Attaining Fast and Successful Searches in E-commerce Environments

Current online stores suffer from a cardinal problem. There are too many products to offer, and customers find themselves lost due to the vast selection. As opposed to traditional stores, there is little or no guidance that helps the customers as they search. In this paper, we propose a new approach for searching in online stores. This approach is based on algorithms commonly used in recommenda...