Dollar stores have become the fastest-growing retail format in United States. However, there is considerable controversy regarding their entry, particularly into markets without grocery stores, and concerns that dollar-store entry decisions are motivated by preemptive incentives. In this paper, we aim to study market of dollar as an equilibrium phenomenon examine impact on competing store forma...

The Covid-19 pandemic represented a crisis that was handled in very different ways by retailers. purpose of this comprehensive empirical study is to explore how Swedish retailers adapted their retail formats, activities and governance over the course pandemic. Three types adaptations were observed: physical store environment, new services connected store, reduction store. We also found developm...

Previous studies on the activation mechanism of canonical transient receptor potential (TRPC) channels have often produced conflicting conclusions. All seven have been shown to be activated by phospholipase C (PLC)-coupled receptors, but TRPC1, TRPC2, TRPC3, TRPC4, TRPC5, and TRPC7 have also been proposed to function as store-operated channels.(1)1Although PLC activation inevitably leads to act...

BACKGROUND Food environment studies have focused on ethnic and income disparities in food access. Few studies have investigated distance travelled for food and did not aim to inform the geographic scales at which to study the relationship between food environments and obesity. Further, studies have not considered neighborhood design as a predictor of food purchasing behavior. METHODS Atlanta ...

transactions in a retail system are a comprehensive set of store applications. These applications include point-of sale operations and back-room activities. Store performance is described by the throughput rate of transactions and the delay in the processing of any particular transaction. Two techniques of performance analysis are discussed: analytic evaluation atzd store simulation. A n import...