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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Grocery Store"”.
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grocery store
This is my agenda. My "code of ethics". A structure of intentions. I think it's why I'm here. I'm not serious but take me seriously. Cheez Whiz and potted meat, fluorescent lights and vinyl siding. I'm not laughing at it. I fall for the hype. I'm down with the bonus buys. I don't get anywhere …
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Increasing access to healthy food at a cooperative grocery store
… project, I worked with representatives of a grocery cooperative and interviewed social services staff and low-income residents from the surrounding community in order to develop programming and policy suggestions for the co-op that could make it more inclusive and affordable, thereby helping …
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Architectu(Re)mergence: A Solution for the Modern American Grocery Store
Imagine a grocery store that physically helps you to make healthy decisions for you. Your Twinkies, Hoho's, and other processed foods are all available and within sight, but you've got to work for them. In the wake of challenges that Americans face every day, this thesis project is putting a …
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A method for analyzing the delivery frequency from a distribution center to a retail grocery store
… exists for determining how frequently a retail store in a supermarket chain should receive deliveries from its distribution center. Existing methods neglect many crucial constraints, such as the necessity for deliveries to fall on fixed days of the week, severely limited shelf space, and the …
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How Do the Perceived Barriers, Attitudes, and Knowledge of Grocery Store Personnel Affect Availability of Organic Food Products?
… local characteristics affect the attitudes of grocery store personnel toward organic food products and how these attitudes affect availability. Grocery store personnel were surveyed about their attitudes toward organic foods, their perceptions of the barriers to offering organic foods, their …
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A Grocery Store Intervention Designed to Increase Fruit, Vegetable, and Healthy Snack Purchases among Parents of Young Children
… time-series design was used in one intervention grocery store. The intervention consisted of two components, a Healthy Kids Kiosk and food sampling. Subjects/Setting: Patrons of Ukrop's Inc. Grocery store in Roanoke, Virginia. May-September 2009 Measures: The study measures consist of three …
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Exploring the Grocery Store Satisfaction of England's Older Population: An Evaluation of Antecedents and Consequences Using Structural Equation Modelling
… to the health and wellbeing of older people is grocery retail (Khan, 1981). However, little previous research has addressed how older people rate the service delivered by their grocery provider, particularly in regard to satisfaction. To reconcile this gap in theoretical understanding, a …
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"The Virtual Grocery Store: A Proposal to Improve the Quality of Life for Retail Customers through a Virtual Environment"
… customer and the space in the actual, physical store which does not yet occur in the virtual store (Raijas, 2002). Customers' increased use of new technology and the Internet illustrates that an incredible growth potential exists in the electronic grocery store industry. Currently, electronic …
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Life in the City: Housing, History and the Supermarket, an Episode in Urban Architecture
… to a proposal to construct a suburban style grocery store and surface parking lot in the middle of an existing residential neighborhood, including the substantial demolition and 'strip-mall' conversion of a historic theater located on the Washington, DC site. The Thesis evolved as an …
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Food Insecurity in the District of Columbia: Do Community Gardens Help?
… the highest levels of food insecurity, with one grocery store per 60,000 residents versus other wards with one grocery store per 10,000 residents (Sustainable DC, 2019). Community gardens are sometimes referred to as part of the solution to food insecurity. This study explored if there was an …
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Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
<p>With the growing popularity of dollar stores, concerns have surfaced over the potential relationship between dollar stores and the closures of grocery stores. Healthy food accessibility for consumers, particularly those in rural areas, has additionally become of great interest. This thesis aims …
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Building Sustainable Behavior through Social Marketing: Encouraging Reusable Shopping Bag Use at Stadium Thriftway in Tacoma, WA - A Case Study
… on one ubiquitous single-use disposable - grocery store shopping bags. The environmental science demonstrates that single-use shopping bags, both paper and plastic, incur unnecessary environmental costs because there is a more sustainable alternative in reusable bags. However, in order to …
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ESSAYS ON NUDGING CUSTOMERS’ BEHAVIORS: EVIDENCE FROM ONLINE GROCERY SHOPPING AND CROWDFUNDING
… is customers’ purchase behaviors in an online grocery store and the other is customer’ contribution behaviors in a reward-based crowdfunding platform. In both contexts, we study how to actively nudge their behaviors. In Chapter 2, we investigates how, when dealing with products that are …
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Adult- and teen-led education use in healthful grocery shopping and menu planning for parents and their adolescents
… effectiveness of a menu planning workshop, and a grocery store tour, to be led by young adolescent leaders to parents and their young adolescent children. Methods. The menu planning workshop was evaluated using a randomized study design, where a convenience sample of 32 participants (15 parents …
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Community transportation : alternative transportation provision in a low-income neighborhoods in southeast Atlanta
… residents in the Study Area, getting to the grocery store or to suburban job centers, for example, is difficult or impossible. This exploratory thesis approaches transportation access problems in these neighborhoods from a community-based perspective. In response to the ineffectiveness of …
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Modeling the Efficacy of the 15-Minute City Using Large-Scale Mobility Data from the Perspective of Accessibility and User Choice: A Case Study on the Urban Food Environment
… an individual’s choice to visit their closest grocery store, and the extent to which certain sociodemographic variables contribute to their choice. Using logistic regression models on ∼ 7𝑀 grocery store visits from ∼ 72, 000 people in the Greater Boston area, we show that proximity is not a …
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Banana transshipment model
… are the number one selling produce item in the grocery store. On average, bananas account for 6% of produce department sales and 1% of total grocery store sales. According to The Packer’s “2010 Fresh Trends”, 88% of consumers in all categories purchase bananas. Also, 94% of consumers in the …
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Food and Nutrition-Related Beliefs, Attitudes, Practices, and Perceived Needs of Food Stamp Recipients in Virginia
… made food-related decisions while in the grocery store. Explanations for incidences of food resource scarcities included beliefs that the amount of food stamps was insufficient and that poor food purchasing decisions were made. Predominant food behavior changes that had been previously …
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The impact of food geography on consumer and producer welfare
… I use the 2012 IRI InfoScan that records weekly store-level sales in a nationally representative sample of counties at over 15,000 retailers to identify the products available and prices of these products offered in each census tract. In doing so, I calculate a census-tract level Exact Price …
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Multi-Use complex: East Lubbock, Texas
… consists of a mixed-use complex including a grocery store, retail shops, offices, bazaar area, rooms for commimity interactions, restaurants, and plazas create a positive atmosphere for the commimity. The facility will incorporate an anchor grocery store, restaurants, retail shops, and …
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