The goal of point-of-purchase (POP) nutrition information is to help consumers make informed, healthful choices. Despite limited evaluation, these population-based approaches are being advocated to replace traditional, more expensive, individual behavior-change strategies. Few studies have examined the effect of POP information on buying patterns of college students, a group with high obesity r...

Many studies have explored service innovations regarding the use of information technologies, yet few have addressed the strategic leveraging in IT investment for sustaining competitiveness. The objective of this paper is to examine different strategies that firms have applied in leveraging advanced information technologies for service innovation in highly competitive market. The analysis of st...

The existing packed mail-based return mode in ecommerce has a considerable negative impact on the natural environment. In contrast, package-free accepts unpacked returns using points in-store and is more eco-friendly service. On basis of push–pull–mooring (PPM) framework, this study aims to identify key factors green communication that contribute consumers switching from mail services services....

In a recent study conducted for the Ontario Convenience Store Association I find evidence of significant average price differences in specific beer products between Ontario and Quebec, which I attribute to the near monopoly status enjoyed by The Beer Store (TBS). Back of the envelope calculations suggest the existence of significant profits enjoyed by TBS. In this paper, I study differences acr...

We assess the role of cognitive convenience in popularity and rigidity 0-ending prices settings. Studies show that are common at stores because transaction offer. Using large store-level retail CPI data, we find popular rigid even when they offer little convenience. corroborate these findings with two scanner price datasets from Dominick's Nielsen. In there more 0-endings items front-end candie...

ABSTRACT. To the best of our knowledge this is first attempt to address consistencies and inconsistencies between grocery shopping behaviour shifts in era Covid-19 across three devolved nations mainland UK. We strictness ‘lockdown style’ closure containment policies that primarily restrict people’s (stringency index). use a unique dataset transactional data (778,305 observations) drawn from 1,2...

TEL AVIV, July 17—Two Palestinian suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a convenience store on a busy pedestrian walkway in an immigrant neighborhood of Tel Aviv tonight, killing themselves and three other people. The bombings, which also injured 40, marked the second Palestinian attack against Israeli civilians in two days after a hiatus of nearly a month. The bodies of the bombers, one...