In this study, the distribution of shopping centers is optimized in terms of realizing the shortest car-based shopping trips in an urban area. Modal split is performed between road and public traffic networks is calculated, and then the interaction between land-use and transportation in the context of choice of shopping destinations is modeled to build the optimal function. Parallel genetic alg...

This research aims at improving online shopping. In general, people have a range of motives for shopping. They also have a number of reasons for finding shopping disagreeable, and one of these is sales pressure. We argue that, contrary to normal prejudice, the role of the salesperson is important. If exercised properly, it encourages us to examine our objectives and values when contemplating a ...

This study aims to identify cellular phone users’ shopping motivating factors towards online shopping. 100 university students located in Klang Valley, Malaysia were involved as the respondents. They were required to complete a set of questionnaire and had to own a cellular phone in order to be selected as sample in this study. Three from five proposed hypotheses were supported: purchasing info...

There is a tremendous growth of online group-buying (OGB) in recent years. Under the intensive market competition, customer’s revisit behavior is essential for OGB websites to survive. Drawing upon the shopping value perspective, this paper identifies the unique features of OGB and investigates the impacts of these features on customer shopping value and revisit behaviors. A theoretical model w...

Neben dem klassischen Ladenverkauf hat sich insbesondere für Konsumgüter der Verkauf von Waren über das Internet (eCommerce) als Verkaufsweg etabliert. Der Artikel startet mit der These, dass diese Vertriebswege, insbesondere in den kundennahen Prozessen, völlig getrennt voneinander ablaufen. Diese These wird durch eine Feldstudie belegt. Die Anreicherung des Ladenverkaufs durch eCommerce-Ansät...

This paper presents the Shopping Assistant, the prototype of a platform which provides personalized advertisements, ontology based product recommendations and user support to find a (non–web) store selling desired products. The benefits are satisfied consumers, better advertising revenues and fine grained TV usage statistics which enable broadcasters to provide a more user centric program compo...

This study documents that men and women experience and perform consumer shopping differently, and in ways consistent with adaptations to the sexually dimorphic foraging strategies utilized during recent human evolution. There is an abundant literature on sex differences in spatial abilities and object location that follow from the specific navigational strategies associated with hunting and gat...

BACKGROUND Compulsive and addictive forms of consumption and buying behaviour have been researched in both business and medical literature. Shopping enabled via the Internet now introduces new features to the shopping experience that translate to positive benefits for the shopper. Evidence now suggests that this new shopping experience may lead to problematic online shopping behaviour. This pap...

A large proportion of online consumers tend to abandon their virtual shopping carts instead of finalizing their purchases. In this research in progress paper, we investigate how online shopping hesitation can be alleviated to promote product sales in the context of social shopping. Particularly, we attempt to address the research gap by exploring how online review characteristics (i.e., review ...