IT is having a tremendous impact on most forms of business and the literature suggests large benefits from innovative applications. One major sector of the UK economy, retailing, is undergoing vast technological changes with the introduction of EPOS equipment and the associated developments in banking and financial services. However, the broader conceptual importance of IT in retailing is less ...

This paper aims to categorize some of the fundamental information systems (IS) challenges with the development of consumer-oriented electronic commerce or online retailing. With the emergence of new online intermediaries such as America Online, Amazon and eBay, many traditional firms are at risk and need to respond. Despite their size and retailing experience most of the incumbent retailers suc...

This research aims to develop some suitable metrics for the measurement of market power in the online retailing business. While it is obvious that market power exists in the online retailing business, especially among the market leaders, the factors that drive that market power have been considerably less analyzed. One of the main reasons why existing research in this area has concentrated on c...

R policies are common in many sectors of retail distribution. Padmanabhan and Png (1997) showed that with demand uncertainty, a returns policy could improve manufacturer profitability under certain conditions. Wang (2004) showed that returns policies do not change manufacturer profitability when demand is certain and retailing is competitive. We show that returns policies do increase manufactur...

Indian Retail Industry is ranked among the ten largest retail markets in the world. The attitudinal shift of the Indian consumer and the emergence of organized retail formats have transformed the face of Retailing in India. With the sign of re-emergence of economic growth in India, consumer buying in retail sector is being projected as a key opportunity area. As a consequence, Indian corporate ...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming more prevalent for retailers in their use for both day-to-day and strategic decision-making. Given the array of internal and external databases they use, as well as the amount of organisational development, system implementation is a most apposite description of how a GIS supports retailing decision-making. System implementation has been one o...

Information systems in the context of retailing are, though often overlooked as such, some of the most complex systems in the corporate information landscape – this solely on the basis of their geographical and probably also cultural span across nations, traditions, fiscal systems and workforce regimes (Joshi, 2009; Tambo, 2011). When retail information systems are expanded into being able to c...

INTRODUCTION Researchers and policy-makers are interested in the influence that food retailing around schools may have on child obesity risk. Most previous research comes from North America, uses data aggregated at the school-level and focuses on associations between fast food outlets and school obesity rates. This study examines associations between food retailing and BMI among a large sample ...