Over the last decade, the retail industry has had a phenomenal growth. All figures show their success and efficiency and many studies have shown the role of customer reviews in encouraging ambivalent purchasers to buy items online. There have been numerous studies on why people read and trust these comments and taking for granted the important role of customer reviews in determining buying deci...

Distributed Sensor Networks (DS’.s) have been an area for active research over the past few years, due to potentially widespread applications in creating smart computing environment. In this work, we have proposed new smart computing environment for super/hyper market. The proposed system uses Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN’s) for real-time tracking of the products. While new technologies are...

Marketing research has identified several benefits of dynamic pricing strategies in the retail industry. However, today’s retailers are limited to apply them in real-time to customer needs as corresponding pricing services provided by smart product infrastructures have not been adopted so far. In addition, dynamic pricing strategies rely on a business service ecosystem of retailers, suppliers, ...

Clayton Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation Theory (DIT) is one of the most renowned frameworks in strategic management. One important question discussed in the context of this theory is whether the Internet and also the business models of pure e-banks constitute a disruptive innovation to the retail banking industry. The objective of this paper is to address this question by conceptually analy...

This paper analyses the impact of retail mergers on product variety. We show that following a merger, a retailer may want to enhance its buyer power vis a vis suppliers by delisting products and committing to a “single-sourcing” purchasing strategy. As we argue, the benefits of such a strategy may be more pronounced in case of cross-border mergers. Moreover, anticipating further concentration i...