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Chain-store Pricing and the Structure of Retail Markets [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 This paper examines competition between chain-stores and independent retailers in the UK retail opticians' market. We demonstrate that the pricing policy adopted by chain-stores can determine the impact their entry has on independent retailers. Crucially, in this market the chain-store retailers set an identical national price across all local markets.
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Chain-store competition: customized vs. uniform pricing [PDF]
, 2008 Retail chains essentially practice one of two broad strategies in setting prices across their stores. The more straightforward is to set a chain- or country- wide price.
Dobson, Paul, Waterson, Michael
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Private label introduction: Does it benefit the supply chain? [PDF]
Private labels, also called store brands or distributor brands, have changed the retail industry during the last three decades. Consumer data shows strong growth of private label market share, and in countries like Germany or Spain, the penetration of ...
Martinez de Albeniz, Victor +1 more
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Understanding the Key Determinants of Retail Success [PDF]
, 2013 Retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to survive and thrive in today’s cut-throat competitive environment. Singh et al. (2006, p. 457) summarize this phenomenon by stating the following: “Rapid growth of alternative retail formats, in the form ...
Obeng, Efua/B, Obeng, Efua B
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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The role of age and gender in the retail service encounter
, 2011 Research typically explores the service encounter in relation to the soft and hard skills of front line staff, yet has neglected the role the visible diversity of sales staff have on the interactions between the service deliverer and receiver. This paper
Resnick, S. +4 more
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Employee retention and the moderating role of psychological ownership in retail
, 2022 Retailing is one of the critical stages in supply chain operations, in which human resources and employee retention play a decisive role as in any organization.
Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Diep +3 more
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Retail chain pharmacy opioid dispensing practices from 1997 to 2020: A content analysis of internal industry documents. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol Depend Rep, 2023 Chiu C +4 more
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