Much of the literature on attractiveness and pleasantness retail stores has focused critical influence store atmosphere or ambient attributes, which customer satisfaction choice. However, little is known about environmental cues that customers’ in different shopping contexts. In this context, present research aims to answer following questions: “Are atmospheric variables equally relevant hedoni...

Research in retailing suggests that atmospherics influence store image and and Weitz, 1995), with recent empirical results suggesting that cues in the store environment contribute to customers’ percepexpectations of service and merchandise (Baker, Grewal, and Parasuraman: The Influence of Store Environment on Quality Inferences and Store tions of merchandise and service quality (Baker, Grewal, ...

regarding the importance of the customer in today'scompetitive world, and considering the previous researches whichindicated the cost of attracting new customers is far more than the costof maintaining customer loyalty, studying the methods of obtainingand maintaining customer loyalty in various businesses has received ahigh priority. the purpose of this study is to determine thecomponents...

Retail stores are segmented using socioeconomic characteristics of the environmental variables both within and outside the store. trade area, and it is shown that the effects of store environment on store The internal retail environmental variables include retailers’ performance vary across segments. Store performance is measured by a micro-marketing strategies and the external retail environme...

The ability to store energy enables organisms to deal with temporarily harsh and uncertain conditions. Empirical studies have demonstrated that organisms adapted to fluctuating energy availability plastically adjust their storage strategies. So far, however, theoretical studies have investigated general storage strategies only in constant or deterministically varying environments. In this study...

The CMS experiment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is currently setting up a Data Grid which will provide access to several Terabytes of data, distributed and replicated. In the real production environment data will be produced in different countries on both sides of the Atlantic by the end of year 2000. The stringent requirements of data consistency, security and high-...