The top priority of any business is a constant need Increase sales and profitability. one the causes reduction in profit occurs when an existing customer stops trading. When leaves or terminates company, potential cross-selling opportunities are lost. store without advice. It can be difficult for companies to respond take corrective action. Ideally, should act proactively identify themselves ch...

Packaging companies must carefully monitor retail and consumer trends to best utilize, direct, or prioritize their research dollars in developing packaging and packaging systems to meet these demands. This paper reviews packaging developments that are resulting from numerous trends taking place in the meat industry and in the retail sector. Current case ready packaging solutions that meet the n...

Over the past several years, physical retail outlets have seen a noticeable decline in shoppers, as digital shopping has provided a newer and less costly shopping alternative for consumers. Online digital shopping provides immediate product information but lacks the experience of a physical product. Newer immersive digital shopping environments bring together digital product information with ph...

Executive Summary No matter how you slice it, banking is a dataheavy industry. But despite the proliferation of data, effective mining of insights has remained elusive. Given the tremendous advances in analytics software and the processing power generated by cloud-based utility computing architectures, the banking industry is ripe for change. As the industry works its way out of the financial c...

This paper examines the extent to which companies in various industries are using the World Wide Web and its associated technologies to conduct retail business. Using the framework of an Electronic Commerce Architecture (ECA), a variety of commercial Web sites are analyzed to determine which commerce processes are being supported online in each industry and each type of industry. The results of...