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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Online Retail"”.
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Product Returns Management in Online Retail
… rate using the products’ visual information. In online channels, products are returned at high rates. Shipping, processing, and refurbishing are so costly that a retailer’s profit is extremely sensitive to return rates. Using a large dataset from a European apparel retailer, we observe that …
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Order Fulfillment Algorithms for Online Retail
We study an order fulfillment problem in an online-retail setting where the retailer’s fulfillment system includes warehouses that hold inventory (fulfillment centers), and a transportation network composed of node facilities and transportation arcs. To minimize the total transportation costs for …
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Large-scale optimization in online-retail inventory management
… placement and inventory replenishment in online retail. The placement decision focuses on the selection of fulfillment centers in which to place items, while the replenishment decision concerns the amount of inventory to order for each item. In contrast with traditional retail, a …
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An Examination of Price Dispersion in an Online Retail Marketplace
… three essays that analyze price dispersion in an online retail marketplace. Price dispersion is a measure of the variation in prices that sellers charge for products. Online price dispersion has been thoroughly analyzed in the past decade as it has numerous implications for firm pricing strategy …
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Analyzing Inventory Placement of Low-Volume Items in Online Retail
… consistently difficult challenge for many large online retailers. This problem is exacerbated when dealing with low-volume items, which often occupy a disproportionately large proportion of inventory space and resources. This research lays out a foundation for investigating how to optimally place …
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Unveiling data quality dynamics in online retail: An exploration of product attributes
… style, and gender classification within an online retail environment, where inaccurate or incomplete attributes can disrupt decision-making, inventory management, and customer experience. The research aims to (1) identify relevant data quality dimensions for assessing product attributes, (2) …
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising
… dynamic pricing problem commonly faced by online retailers. Customers arrive sequentially to the selling platform, and for each arrival the seller must make an immediate pricing decision for that customer. The seller aims to learn the demand as a function of price and customer covariates …
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Data-Driven Decision Making for Online Retail Operations in Sourcing, Distribution and Assortment Personalization
In the current world, online retailing accounts for the major share of retailing due to the unique benefits it provides to customers. However, its success is highly dependent on how it manages its operations. Compared to traditional retailing, online retailing requires new decision-making models to …
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Lowering outbound shipping costs in an online retail environment by making better fulfillment and replenishment decisions
As online retailing - or e-tailing - continues to grow as more and more customers buy physical goods on the internet, finding ways to reduce the cost and environmental impact of outbound shipping in this sector will become increasingly important. We investigate the impact of making poor fulfillment …
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The prevention of internal identity theft-related crimes: a case study research of the UK online retail companies.
… leave countless victims in their wake, including online retail companies and consumers. With the rapid growth in the use of credit and debit cards in e-commerce, the online retail has been a key target for the IIDTRC perpetrators. IIDTRC involve the misuse of information systems (IS) by the …
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Intelligent product placement strategies for Amazon.com's worldwide fulfillment centers
Online retail has radically changed traditional supply chain operations by providing a direct-to-consumer model that eliminates the need for traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores. With this new order, retailers have had to design warehouse solutions that fit the changing operational …
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Market research of commercial recommendation engines for online and offline retail
… preferences have had a revolutionary impact on retail businesses by making "personalization" a reality. As recommendable engines enable retailers to develop an unprecedented 360 degree understanding of their consumers at an individual level, retailers that are early adopters of recommendation …
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The Impact of AI on Online Customer Experience and Consumer Behaviour. An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Online Customer Experience and Consumer Behaviour in a Digital Marketing and Online Retail Context
… This new technology has the potential to enhance online customer experience and outcomes of customer experience. However, research relating to the impact of AI is still developing and empirical evidence sparse. Taking a consumercentred approach and by adopting Social Response Theory as theoretical …
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study
… B2C firms in China’s e-commerce industry, where online retail markets have seen exponential growth over the last two decades. It shows that firms in Chinese online retail markets are facing heightened price competition due to reduced search costs for consumers and minimal differentiation in …
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Local Interactions Between Firms And Consumers
… markets. In the first chapter, I study whether online retail is a complement or substitute to local offline economies by studying how consumers reorganize their trips to grocery stores and coffee shops after they become online grocery shoppers. To do so, I use new, detailed data on the daily …
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Case analysis studies of diffusion models on E-commerce transaction data
As online merchants compete in the growing e-commerce markets for customers, attention to data generated from merchant and customer website interactions continues to drive ongoing online analytical innovation. However, successful online sales forecasting arising from historical transaction data …
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The promise of digital technology in brick and mortar retail
… technology is having on brick-and-mortar fashion retail. Retailers that (i) understand the implications of these changes and (ii) can adapt their retail business models to the new paradigm of the marketplace will be successful. Most retail research concentrates on online retail. Instead this …
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A quantitative analysis of Augmented Reality visual merchandising on online purchase intention: A consumer neuroscience approach
The rapid evolution of e-commerce has led retailers to fixate on how to differentiate themselves and provide an enhanced and engaging experience for their customers. In this dynamic industry, emerging technologies and innovation have become crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. The …
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The Effect of 3D Virtual Environments on Consumer Perceptions and Purchase Intent
… Internet easier and more engaging as a consumer online shopping experience. An innovation with increasing availability is the three-dimensional (3D) representation of an area where the user has an agent, called an "avatar," to navigate in a computer-generated environment. As technical options …
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Structural changes in online retailing and the marketing mix
The online retail environment is expanding, enhancing the possibilities for customers to shop online. On the one hand, a proliferation of online channels establishes a multichannel online retailing landscape, which offers customers more alternatives in terms of where to shop online. On the other …
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