The world of retailing has undergone deep changes over the last twenty years in terms organization marketing channels. Two models are today characterized by a strong dynamism: brick & click model and pure player model. An important literature focuses on logistical dimensions associated with these two models, indicating that performance physical distribution service is key to success. This a...

Energy markets are systems for effecting the purchase and sale of electricity using supply and demand to set the price. A typical energy market involves a wholesale market for electricity generation, when competing generators offer their electricity output to retailers, and a retail market for electricity retailing, when end-use customers choose their supplier from competing electricity retaile...

Shopping mobility is an essential component of urban trip system, for both personal and goods flows. Although several works exist on general trips, mainly related to work-based trip chains or professional deliveries, the literature on kids and young mobility in terms of shopping trip behaviour is scarce. Moreover, this segment of population presents the particularity that systematic trips are n...

Electronic retailing is expected to affect consumer behaviour many ways through creating new consumer value. In this paper, we adopt a mixed value approach to the consumer value problem in the context of electronic retailing of clothing. We attempt to discover the dominant value patterns that best characterize the underlying consumer value patterns motivating consumers in their purchase situati...

Purpose – To place the research on radio frequency identification (RFID) usage in supply chains within a specific business and market context; in this case, the grocery industry. Design/methodology/approach – This paper considers RFID research within the context of the grocery industry and outlines the market drivers that affect the way the grocery industry approaches RFID and also specific are...

Fashion has touched every sphere of modern consumers globally. Marketers have realized the immense potential to yield business in this booming segment. In present scenario irrespective of the class Indian consumers are adopting fashionable items quickly and conveniently with the rise in competition. The main purpose of the paper is to focus on recent developmental trends in fashion marketing in...

This paper examines the use of consumer-driven innovation networks within the UK foodretailing industry using qualitative interview-based research analysed within an economic framework. This perspective revealed that by exploiting information gathered directly from their customers at point-of-sale and data mining, supermarkets are able to identify consumer preferences and co-ordinate new produc...