INTRODUCTION Small food stores are prevalent in urban neighborhoods, but the availability of nutritious food at such stores is not well known. The objective of this study was to determine whether data from 3 sources would yield a single, homogenous, healthful food store category that can be used to accurately characterize community nutrition environments for public health research. METHODS We...

The literature on food stores, neighborhood poverty, and race/ethnicity is mixed and lacks methods of accounting for complex spatial and temporal clustering of food resources. We used quarterly data on supermarket and convenience store locations from Nielsen TDLinx (Nielsen Holdings N.V., New York, New York) spanning 7 years (2006-2012) and census tract-based neighborhood sociodemographic data ...

Taiwan’s rapid economic growth with increasing personal income leads increasing numbers of young unmarried people to eat out, and shopping at convenience stores for food is indispensable to the lives of these people. Thus, it is an essential issue for convenience store owners to know how to accurately market appropriate products and to choose effective endorsers for brands or products in order ...


 This study aims to find out how the marketing strategy is applied by MSME Convenience Store, and quality of delivery service for handicrafts at Store consumer purchasing decisions are made handicraft Giwangan Store. research a quantitative using survey methods until population in Handicrafts department store. Collecting data questionnaire method that has been tested validity reliability....

Two large Japanese convenience store chain (CVS) companies, namely Seven-Eleven Japan and FamilyMart, began to set up businesses in China in 2004, both companies following entirely different strategies. FamilyMart chose a team management strategy which has two outstanding characteristics. First, it has been fully utilizing the resources of FamilyMart’s Taiwan subsidiary and second, FamilyMart i...

Dykema (2000) presents several statistics that online retail sales are projected to grow from $45 billion in 2000, or 1.5% of total retail sales, to $269 billion in 2005, or 7.8% of total retail sales for that year. Besides this substantial growth in on-line sales, consumers increasingly rely on information collected on-line to research a lot of purchases that are concluded over traditional "br...

Diet is a modifiable contributor to many chronic diseases including childhood obesity. The local food environment may influence children's diet but this area of research is understudied. This study explores if distance to and the number of supermarkets and convenience stores in the local area around households are associated with dietary quality in nine year olds whilst controlling for househol...