by Anna-Lena Sachs : Retail Analytics: Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) ISBN : #3319133047 | Date : 2014-12-18 Description : PDF-668c6 | This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scann...

This paper presents a model conceptual framework that is aimed at promoting trust in the online retailing environment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Despite rapid Internet growth, the development of online retailing in Saudi Arabia continues to progress very slowly compared to that of the developed and leading developing countries. To determine the reason behind the sluggish growth of on...

Retailing in India came with evolutionary patterns from Kirana store to super market. This sector was un-organized in the initial stage, and after that it is carried forward and now it is growing as supermarket and hypermarket. The paper will depict the main drivers of the retail revolution in India and how this revolution changes the buying behavior of the customer, increase in disposable inco...

Purpose: the main purpose of study was to examine factors that affect customer satisfaction in online retailing Indian context and identify relative influence factors. A theoretical model derived accordance with literature tested empirically. Methodology/Approach: data collected convenience through a structured questionnaire administered both personal mode. Exploratory Factor Analysis done meas...

With the increasing importance of ecommerce (electronic commerce) for marketing and distributing consumer goods to end users, companies will have to face new challenges. Traditional retailers and manufacturers have to develop a corporate strategy to establish their presence on the Internet. Companies entering e-commerce have different prerequisites, assets and capabilities. Depending on their o...

The Web is increasingly being viewed as a tool and place to enhance customer relationship. In this paper we define a model to analyze the Web characteristics that aid in building customer relationships and then used this model to examine consumer relationship building mechanisms in online retailing (e-tailing). Through a survey of 177 shoppers who had bought books, CDs, or DVDs online, the caus...

Retailing is witnessing a transformation due to rapid technological developments. Retailers are using smart technologies to improve consumer shopping experiences and to stay competitive. The biggest future challenge for marketing and consequently for retailing seems to be generation Z, since members of this generation seem to behave differently as consumers and are more focused on innovation. T...

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting allowances in many retail markets ar...

As a highly customer-sensitive business, retailing is one of the most socially active industries. Nevertheless, when addressing retailers as brands, the retailing literature has failed to account for their unique social orientation, exposing a gap in the literature. This paper utilizes the sociological view of brands to socially construct a conceptual retail brand model from the customer standp...