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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Grocery retailers"”.
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The Framing of CSR Messages and how they are interlinked with Brand Heritage and Authenticity for selected UK Grocery Retailers.
… messages and associations as they pertain to UK retailers. In phase two, a critical discourse analysis (CDA) proved an effective means to deconstruct the CSR reporting strategies that link to brand representations over an extensive time period for both UK brands. The findings from the study …
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The perceptions of customers and grocery retail managers towards private label brands in the grocery retail sector within the eThekwini municipality
… brought various opportunities and challenges for grocery retailers, however, over the years, these private label brands have often been greeted with mixed perceptions from customers; accompanied by certain skepticisms. This study aimed at identifying the current perceptions of customers and retail …
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Future of grocery retail shopping : challenges and opportunities in e-commerce grocery shopping
… has potential to significantly disrupt the grocery retail market in the U.S. by channeling sales from offline brick-and-mortar stores such as Walmart and Kroger to online e-retailers such as Amazon, Peapod, FreshDirect, and Instacart. Ecommerce grocery retailers have invested heavily in …
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Geography of urban food access : exploring potential causes of food deserts
… understood. Beyond the economics of retail grocery exist systemic, physical factors which contribute to the gaps in food access. Although grocery retailers have different models and consider varying factors when choosing where to locate, it is true that the built environment plays a part in …
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Optimization of CPG budgets in Retailer-led marketing programs
Grocery retailers and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies have a symbiotic relationship. Retailers need CPGs to supply the products, and CPGs need retailers’ customers to grow their brands. Since shelf space is limited, CPGs offer trade and marketing funds to prominently feature their brands. …
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Enhancing efficiency in the evolving grocery supply chain through vendor integration
… procurement and distribution provider servicing grocery retailers, and is the second largest grocery wholesaler in the United States.' The firm has realized average annual revenue growth of nearly 20% since 1995, and projects nearly twenty billion dollars of revenue for 2006. C&S operations are …
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From Grocery Stores to Daycares: Analyzing the Desirability and Feasibility of a Proposed Intervention to Mitigate Child Hunger in North Philadelphia
… to implement. The program being considered is grocery stores selling to daycares, at a discounted price, excess edible and redistributable produce to be distributed to the children enrolled in the daycare, providing them with fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables. To determine whether the …
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Simulation and optimization of outbound operations in an e-grocer's warehouse
A second wave of online grocery retailers ("e-grocers") emerged in late 2000's after dot.com companies, such as Webvan, Streamline and Homegrocer, failed to break into the grocery market despite investing heavily on automated warehouses and operations. The key success factors for e-grocers …
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Management of in-store replenishment systems : an exploratory study of European retailers
… supply chain. To answer this question, six grocery and non-grocery retailers from the UK, Germany and Austria were sampled. At each case, semi-structured interviews with store managers, shop floor employees and headquarter managers were conducted at their workplace. The transcribed …
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Effect of Harvest Time on the Incidence of Red Drupelet Reversion and Development of Tetraploid Linkage Maps in Blackberry
… year-round product in most major U.S. grocery retailers. This could not have been achieved without decades of diligent breeding efforts. Although the genetic improvement of fresh-market blackberries has advanced, there are still issues that need to be addressed. One issue is the …
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Three essays in operations management
… customers on pricing for fashion Internet retailers. Our analysis of clickstream data from an online fashion retailer shows that a significant proportion of sales is due to returning customers, i.e. customers who first visit an item at a particular price, but purchase the item in a later …
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The impact of national culture and industry structure on grocery retail customer loyalty: a comparative study of the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka.
… and industry structure on customer loyalty in grocery retailing has been thinly researched. This PhD is the first to investigate the influence of these factors by examining two culturally and structurally disparate markets; the UK and Sri Lanka. A sequential mixed methods research design was …