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2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2012 A supermarket game is considered with N FCFS queues with unit exponential service rate and global Poisson arrival rate Nλ. Upon arrival each customer chooses a number of queues to be sampled uniformly at random and joins the least loaded sampled queue.
Xu, Jiaming, Hajek, Bruce
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The EMBO Reports, 2013 Recently I witnessed an elderly lady in my local supermarket, fighting back the tears while her husband looked on blankly. The cause of her distress was and remains totally unknown to me. Maybe the couple had had a trivial argument over what brand of yoghurt to buy.
Jacobs Howard, Jacobs Howard
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Loyalty in the supermarket [PDF]
BAR - Brazilian Administration Review, 2007 Loyalty has been a hot topic in marketing management, not only for academics, but also for managers. In that sense, the main goal of this paper is to identify the variables that discriminate loyalty groups. Therefore, seven hypotheses have been proposed which might have an impact on loyalty groups. Based on discriminant analysis, the paper analyzes and
Vieira, Valter A., Damacena, Cláudio
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Trends in the Range of Zero Alcohol Products Available in Supermarkets and Alcohol Stores in Australia. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol RevINTRODUCTION: With some exceptions, alcohol cannot be sold in Australian supermarkets. The emerging availability of zero alcohol products (ZAP) in supermarkets is therefore introducing alcohol brands into this previously protected domain. The aims of the
Pettigrew S +9 more
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Diagnostic tools of energy performance for supermarkets using Artificial Neural Network algorithms [PDF]
, 2013 Supermarket performance monitoring is of vital importance to ensure systems perform adequately and guarantee operating costs and energy use are kept at a minimum.
Mavromatidis, G, Shah, N, Acha, S
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Food environments in Southeast Asia's emerging economies are rapidly evolving, alongside fast-paced socioeconomic and demographic changes. The widespread expansion of supermarkets and parallel restructuring of traditional markets in Vietnam are likely to
Huong T. Trinh +7 more
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Access to healthy food and adult obesity: A secondary evidence synthesis with clinical implications for endocrinology [PDF]
Medicinski Glasnik Specijalne Bolnice za Bolesti Štitaste Žlezde i Bolesti Metabolizma "Zlatibor"Background: Obesity is highly prevalent and determined, in addition to individual factors, by characteristics of the food environment. Understanding how the availability of healthy foods affects obesity risk is important for endocrinology practice ...
Milić Marko Kimi +4 more
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2012 Brand personality is recognized as a key platform for developing a loyal customer base for service organizations. When it comes to the modern retail sector, self-service supermarkets are highly concerned about branding strategies for attracting customers
W. M. C. Bandara Wanninayake
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Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundSupermarkets are businesses, and any voluntary changes to increase the healthiness of their food offerings must align with retailers’ commercial needs.
Moosa Alsubhi +7 more
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The Effects of Depression and Anxiety in Business Management: Iraqi Kurdistan as A Case Study
Journal of Philology and Educational Sciences, 2023 Race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and disability are just a few of the many issues that fall under the umbrella of "cultural issues." We refer to a group's beliefs and practices as having a distinct culture.
Goran Yousif Ismael +2 more
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