When consumers search for and check expiration dates, the risk of purchasing a stale and diminishing quality product reduces. The authors use a simulated eye tracking enabled IT mediated environment to understand the underlying motivation of consumers for checking expiration dates while purchasing groceries. Preliminary findings suggest that expiration date plays an important role in consumers'...

ABSTRACT We investigate whether firms manage stock prices in anticipation of share issuance. Warrant exercise results issuance and warrant expiration dates are fixed years advance, which precludes market timing. predict to prevent (induce) when is dilutive (anti-dilutive) existing shareholders. To test our prediction, we examine returns around dates. find that the difference between out-of-the-...

In a supplier-retailer-buyer supply chain, the supplier frequently offers the retailer a trade credit of  periods, and the retailer in turn provides a trade credit of  periods to her/his buyer to stimulate sales and reduce inventory. From the seller’s perspective, granting trade credit increases sales and revenue but also increases opportunity cost (i.e., the capital opportunity loss during cre...

The American Medical Association has questioned whether expiration dating markedly underestimates the actual shelf life of drug products. Results from the shelf life extension program (SLEP) have been evaluated to provide extensive data to address this issue. The SLEP has been administered by the Food and Drug Administration for the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for 20 years. This p...

Household food waste is a major sustainability problem to solve. Smart labels can alleviate the contributing factor of incorrect interpretation expiration date labels. However, so far little research has studied consumer handling practices and perceptions such in context use. We address this through qualitative, asynchronous text-based focus group study with 18 UK smart label early adopter main...

The expiration-based caching model of the web is generally considered irreconcilable with the dynamic workloads of cloud database services, where expiration dates are not known in advance. In this paper, we present the Cache Sketch data structure which makes expiration-based caching of database records feasible with rich tunable consistency guarantees. The Cache Sketch enables database services...