Oligopoly price discrimination in the retail market prevents a manufacturer from inducing optimal retail margins through any wholesale price. This motivates the manufacturer to impose resale price maintenance. In a model of third-degree price discrimination by rival retailers, a retail price ceiling (or floor) enables the manufacturer to restore the first best. Imposing a fixed retail price is ...

Article history: Received 13 January 2016 Received in revised form 20 August 2016 Accepted 28 September 2016 Available online 20 October 2016 This investigation offers an initial foray into the application of geo-tagged Twitter data for generating insights within two areas of retail geography: establishing retail centre locations and defining catchment areas. Retail related Tweets were identifi...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of obesity is higher in rural than in urban areas of the United States, for reasons that are not well understood. We examined correlations between percentage of rural residents, commute times, food retail gap per capita, and body mass index (BMI) among North Carolina residents. METHODS We used 2000 census data to determine each county's percentage of rural resident...

Luxury retail strategy differs from other retail strategies not merely in distinctive formulations of product, price, distribution, and appeals to customer distinction. Instead, it increasingly stands or falls on the legitimacy of a charismatic creative director. The director offers an aesthetic brand ideology. Luxury retail draws on the principles of art and magic to assemble the charismatic p...

The issue of retail banking is extremely important and topical. Across the globe, retail lending has been a spectacular innovation in the commercial banking sector in recent years. The growth of retail lending, especially, in emerging economies, is attributable to the rapid advances in information technology, the evolving macroeconomic environment, financial market reform, and several micro-lev...

Background: Studies have reported that women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not wearing NHS supplied therapeutic footwear; therefore it is likely they are wearing footwear sourced through retailers. Previous research gives limited information (largely associated with cosmesis) on people’s perceptions on the relationships that exist between retail footwear, well-being and quality of life. Th...

OBJECTIVES To better understand the impact of retail clinic use on a patient's annual total cost of care. STUDY DESIGN A propensity score matched-pair, cohort design was used to analyze healthcare spending patterns among CVS Caremark employees in the year following a visit to a MinuteClinic, the retail clinics inside CVS pharmacies. METHODS De-identified medical and pharmacy claims for CVS ...

perc.tamu.edu 1 any states have opened retail electricity markets to competition so that households can choose their electricity provider. As a result, consumers have the ability to choose their retail provider at unregulated prices, creating new markets where entrant retailers procure wholesale energy and market that energy to consumers. Across the world, the retail electricity sector is being...

BACKGROUND Studies have reported that women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not wearing NHS supplied therapeutic footwear; therefore it is likely they are wearing footwear sourced through retailers. Previous research gives limited information (largely associated with cosmesis) on people's perceptions on the relationships that exist between retail footwear, well-being and quality of life. Thi...

Partnerships, alliances and Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) are concepts that have been prominent in the marketing and logistics literature in the 1990s. One element of relationship building between vendor and purchaser is the outsourcing of activities within the supply chain. Although outsourcing was one of the topics discussed in the major retail trade conferences in the US (National Retail...