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The last-mile logistical challenges of an omnichannel grocery retailer: A South African perspective

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2018
Background: The intense competition between grocery retailers to access new revenue streams has seen brick-and-mortar retailers broadening their services to offer consumers the option of ordering their groceries over the Internet.
Alicia N. Weber, J. A. Badenhorst-Weiss
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Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on household food waste behaviour in Iran

Heliyon, 2022
This research aims to determine the influence of COVID-19 on consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to food waste in Iran. From April 24 to May 24, 2020, an online survey was conducted in Iran with a standard questionnaire delivered in ...
Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari, Soroush Marzban, Hamid El Bilali, Tarek Ben Hassen   +3 more
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Consumer adoption of online grocery shopping in South Africa

South African Journal of Information Management, 2023
Background: The remarkable proliferation and utilisation of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet, has enabled businesses and customers to transact online seamlessly.
Tichaona B. Musikavanhu, Rhodrick N. Musakuro   +1 more
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Nudging customers towards healthier food and beverage purchases in a real-life online supermarket: a multi-arm randomized controlled trial

BMC Medicine, 2022
Background Nudging is increasingly used to promote healthy food choices in supermarkets. Ordering groceries online is gaining in popularity and nudging seems efficacious there as well, but is never comprehensively tested in real-life.
Josine M. Stuber, Jeroen Lakerveld, Loes W. Kievitsbosch, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Joline W. J. Beulens   +4 more
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Digital Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 2023
Like past crises, the COVID-19 pandemic has galvanized individual volunteers to contribute to the public response. This includes digital volunteers who have organized physical aid and conducted social media activities.
Stefka Schmid, Laura Gianna Guntrum, Steffen Haesler, Lisa Schultheiß, Christian Reuter   +4 more
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‘Healthier options tend to get lost in the noise of online’ – Australian shoppers’ experiences with online grocery platforms

Public Health Nutrition
Objective: We aimed to understand what influences parents’ purchasing behaviours when shopping for groceries online and potential ways to improve the healthiness of online grocery platforms.
Rebecca Bennett, Christine Driessen, Christina Zorbas, Gary Sacks, Adyya Gupta, Adrian Cameron, Clara Gomez-Donoso, Anna Peeters, Kathryn Backholer   +8 more
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ChicGrasp: Imitation‐Learning‐Based Customized Dual‐Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio‐Products

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Automated poultry processing lines still rely on humans to lift slippery, easily bruised carcasses onto a shackle conveyor. Deformability, anatomical variance, and hygiene rules make conventional suction and scripted motions unreliable. We present ChicGrasp, an end‐to‐end hardware‐software co‐designed imitation learning framework, to offer a ...
Amirreza Davar, Zhengtong Xu, Siavash Mahmoudi, Pouya Sohrabipour, Chaitanya Pallerla, Yu She, Wan Shou, Philip Glen Crandall, Dongyi Wang   +8 more
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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy, Marco Costanigro, Joshua Berning, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Pilot Study of Technology Adoption: An Analysis of Consumers’ Preference on Future Online Grocery Service

Asian Journal of Technology Management, 2017
. The huge number of smartphone users in Indonesia is the main reason that most of new online retailers choose to develop mobile application-market based grocery.
Safrani Nurfatiasari, Atik Aprianingsih
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COVID-19 and Travel: How Our Out-of-home Travel Activity, In-home Activity, and Long-Distance Travel Have Changed

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021
COVID-19 has made unprecedented impacts on our daily life. This paper investigates individuals’ immediate response to COVID-19, exploring out-of-home activities, in-home activities, and long-distance travel.
Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi, Corrie Thirkell, Md Shahadat Hossain   +2 more
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