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Supply chains in the presence of store brands
European Journal of Operational Research, 2013Abstract Increased competition from store brands is forcing manufacturers to re-evaluate their strategies in regard to pricing and contracting with trade intermediaries. We analyze a supply chain in which a retailer accepts (with the appropriate contractual agreements) a national brand for resale and then determines whether to introduce a store brand,
Xiang Fang +2 more
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Assortment planning for multiple chain stores
OR Spectrum, 2017zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Modeling and analysis of a supply–assembly–store chain
European Journal of Operational Research, 2007zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Xiaobo Zhao +3 more
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, 1997 In their seminal solution of the chain store paradox Kreps and Wilson assumed that the incumbent monopolist is predisposed, with a small probability, to fight entry. Milgrom and Roberts suggested to view this predisposition to fight as a result of precommitment to an aggressive course of action.
Elmar Wolfstetter, Brigitte Adolph
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Essentially, I run a shop. I open the doors in the morning and I make sure that all of the services are in place: that we have got people there to serve customers with goods that we hope they want to buy; and that we manage to take their money in as friendly and open an atmosphere as possible.
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Essentially, I run a shop. I open the doors in the morning and I make sure that all of the services are in place: that we have got people there to serve customers with goods that we hope they want to buy; and that we manage to take their money in as friendly and open an atmosphere as possible.
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The Chain Store and Distribution
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1924principal factors in the movement towards the simplification of distributive functions. As such, it has caused pronounced concern among manufacturers, jobbers, and retailers. It has been the subject of litigation, of recrimination, and of endless discussion. The manufacturer has hesitated to make full use of the chain store system as an outlet, because
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Clusterwise pricing in stores of a retail chain
OR Spectrum, 2007Clusterwise pricing is characterized by prices of each brand of a category being equal in stores belonging to the same cluster. Expected sales necessary to compute profits are estimated using coefficients of a multilayer perceptron which performs better than several parametric models.
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Store Wars: The Chain Tax Movement
The Journal of Law and Economics, 1986nothing to about 25 percent in only a couple of decades. Chains had become particularly important in the grocery business, where by 1929 they accounted for almost 40 percent of retail grocery sales.1 In an earlier article in this Journal I discussed, in some detail, the struggles between independent retailers and the chains of this period.2 There my ...
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Are Chain Stores Good Citizens?
Journal of Marketing, 1943NE OF the main criticisms of chain stores has been that they have been poor citizens of the communities in which they operate. Chain stores are said to be operated by absentee owners who are not interested in the communities that support their stores. "They do not support community enterprises." "The chain's only interest is to make a profit which is ...
P. D. Converse, T. Eugene Beattie
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Profit Maximization in Chain Retail Stores
The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1978BECAUSE they handle a large number of products and because of the multiplant nature of their operations, chain retail organizations face special problems in pricing and in profit maximization. The primary purpose of this paper is to offer a model based on the actual policies and practices of such organizations.
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