Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to identify store format attributes that impact on store format choice when consumers conduct fill-in or major trips to buy groceries. By doing so, we take into consideration that consumers patronise multiple (store-based) formats depending on the shopping situation operationalised by the type of shopping trip. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts t...

INTRODUCTION Food-borne pathogens are the leading cause of illness and death in developing countries, killing approximately 1.8 million people annually. In developed countries, food-borne pathogens are responsible for millions of cases of infectious gastrointestinal diseases each year, costing billions of dollars. The objective of this study was to screen for two major food-borne pathogens, Esc...

The paper explores a consumer search setting where the sellers have asymmetries. The model is an extension of the popular Stahl Model, which is widely used in the literature. The extension introduces sellers with heterogeneous stores number, reflecting the typical market structure. The market consists of several sellers heterogeneous in size consumers, some of which face a cost when sequentiall...

in recent years, supply chain management has developed into one of the most critical strategies for achieving competitive advantage in different industries and the supplier selection process has increasingly been distinguished as an important and vital decision in supply chain management of manufacturing and service industries. on the other hand, with so many suppliers having different capabili...

This study investigates the price effects of honey quality attributes in Spain. Price and product characteristics are collected from 264 labels found on shelves main representative retail stores available national territory. The marginal implicit prices assessed through a hedonic approach. Results show that affected by leader brands sold gourmet hypermarkets glass packages compared to producer ...

Currently, sustainability emerges as a key element on which the development of competitive advantages for businesses is based. In dynamic and turbulent environment in retail companies operate, sustainable practices are posited an opportunity their progress survival. Through this article, it intended to advance nature dimensions construct examine its influence store equity consumer satisfaction....

   The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology management elements on organizational agility using the structural equation technique. The research method was descriptive with the use of survey and the statistical population of the study consisted of all 500 managers and employees of Refah chain stores in the city of Tehran. The sample was selected through cluster <...