According to IDC, there will be 30 billion connected things by 20201. The Internet of Things market for retail is expected to grow at a CAGR of 48.36% for the period 2014-2019 according to MordorIntelligence2. The adoption of IoT to create a more intelligent and connected retail ecosystem is referred to as the Internet of Retail Things (IoRT). By delivering networked information to relevant sys...

The Government’s initiative to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail has been a subject for debate for quite some time now. Indian retail sector has therefore attracted the attention of people from various fields including academia, industry, research organisations. The present study is undertaken to gain an insight about the present structure of Indian Retail ...

The increased presence of modern/Western style food retail outlets is changing the food retail environment in many developing countries. This phenomenon, known as “supermarketization,” is just recently taking off in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through a case study methodology, this research uses direct observation, retailer interviews, mapping, a food retail assessment and household surveys, first to d...

salmonella is one of the most important bacterial pathogens, especially in children and the elderly can lead to acute gastroenteritis. the natural location of this bacterium is in the digestive system, so transferring by fecal to water. a total of 180 samples of fish, shrimp and lobster was catch randomly from retail stores at isfahan city and in aseptic conditions was transported to the food l...

background: poultry products have been recognized as major sources of human gastrointestinal disease caused by salmonella spp. and several outbreaks have been reported where eggs were the source of human infection. objectives: this study was carried out to determine the prevalence of salmonella spp. in the quail egg interior contents from retail stores of semnan, iran and to characterize the is...

Current approaches to retail productivity measurement have long been controversial because of difficulties in identifying the level of retail services. Data Envelopment Analysis, an operations research-based performance evaluation methodology, is introduced as one solution for resolving this problem and assessing managerially useful measure of storelevel retail productivity. Data Envelopment An...

Guest editorial Preface This special issue of the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) is devoted to the long-standing applied field of retail geography. The five papers in this special issue address three areas of retail geography: namely, the identification of retail structure, the tracking of retail change and the development of retail location decision support tools....

In this paper, an incentive policy is proposed to coordinate ordering, lead time, and pricing strategies in a two-echelon manufacturing supply chain (SC) consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. The system is faced with a stochastic demand which depends on both price and lead time. The manufacturer decides on production size and manufacturing acceleration rate while the retailer determi...