Retailing Innovations in a Globalizing Retail Market Environment Werner Reinartz a,∗, Benedict Dellaert b,1, Manfred Krafft c,2, V. Kumar d,3, Rajan Varadarajan e,4 a Department of Retailing and Customer Management, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz 1, 50923 Cologne, Germany b Department of Business Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Nether...

This paper is concerned with the risk management practices of an electricity retailer motivated by Dutch market. We examine effectiveness existing base- and peak-load futures contracts as a tool for retailers. analytically characterize retailer’s optimal hedging policy function serial correlation prices demand profiles its customers. find that typically over-hedges in market, over-hedging amoun...

Transshipment in retailing is a practice where one outlet ships its excess inventory to another with shortages. By balancing inventories, transshipment can reduce waste and increase fill rate at the same time. In “Separation of Perishable Inventories Offline Retailing Through Transshipment,” Li, Yu, Du explore idea transshipping perishable goods fixed finite lifetime offline grocery retailing. ...

Sales by small volume sellers are systematically undercounted in public and private surveys of ecommerce. The twin results are that the contribution of small sellers to the ecommerce marketplace is considerably larger than generally assumed and the overall market is larger by this difference. As the costs of selling things online have fallen with cheaper equipment and communications fees, and w...