This paper discusses and empirically evaluates the relevance of shopping-related logistics for consumers of store-based retail formats. Based on a literature review a conceptual model was developed and subsequently tested using a survey of more than six hundred consumers in the grocery retail sector. Respondents were those primarily responsible for grocery shopping in their households located i...

Since the late 1990s, online shopping has taken off as an increasing number of consumers purchase increasingly diversified products on the Internet. Given that how to attract and retain consumers is critical to the success of online retailers, research on the antecedents of consumer acceptance of online shopping has attracted widespread attention. There has yet to be a holistic view of online s...

Mobile phones are becoming, if not already, an integral part of our lives. They have a wide range of applications, such as communication, gaming and commerce. Shopping in particular is a rapidly growing domain. Today, shoppers use their phones to make more informed shopping decisions by researching products and merchants, save money using price comparison, mobile coupons and daily deal apps, ev...

The positive effects of social popularity (i.e., information based on other consumers’ behaviors) and deal scarcity (i.e., information provided by product vendors) on consumers’ consumption behaviors are well recognized. However, few studies have investigated their potential joint and interaction effects and how such effects may differ at different timing of a shopping process. This study exami...

Few studies in the literature on electronic commerce provide empirical investigation of consumer behavior in the international online shopping context. This study identifies and discusses factors that influence international online purchases and profile the characteristics of those who purchase and those who do not purchase from online stores overseas in three main categories: the online shoppi...

Research has shown that grocery shopping is the most stressful form of shopping and it is an activity that most individuals perform on a regular basis. Grocery shopping via the Internet has the potential to reduce a number stressors associated with grocery shopping. This research confirms that shopping over the Internet reduces these stressors but creates a new list of potential stressors for c...

since the energy consumption has become one of the crisis of modern buildings, modeling the iranian past architecture patterns could be helpful. the shopping streets as one of the main sectors consuming energy locate near the open spaces it seems, therefore, they need more thermal comfort. however, using passive techniques, the iranian traditional bazaars architecture solved the problems regard...

With the improvement of telecommunication and wireless Internet-access technologies, smart mobile terminals have been extensively applied for mobile shopping. In this paper, PPM Model is taken as a theoretical framework and an empirical research method is employed to determine the antecedents influencing consumers’ decisions on migrating from PC-based shopping to mobile shopping. We found that ...

Some Internet shoppers use online shopping aids to help them search for products and services, and to assist them in making in-depth comparisons among alternatives. By presenting comparison information on salient criteria (e.g., price) from multiple vendors of a specific product, online shopping aids can increase the number of alternatives considered, while reducing search time and costs. In th...

The influence of large sub urban shopping center toward the decline of inner city commercial center has attracted many researchers. To prevent the decline of the city center due to urban sprawl, it is necessary to understand the influence of sub urban shopping mall development in competition with the city commercial center. This paper reports the investigation on the transportation effect on th...