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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Online grocery"”.
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A strategic analysis of online grocery and its future outlook
(cont.) are suggested to help future online grocers avoid the mistakes made by the earlier attempt, align their business strategy with the growing consumer interest in specialty foods and wellness services and find the niche market that is best for their business. Finally, a vision of future online …
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ESSAYS ON NUDGING CUSTOMERS’ BEHAVIORS: EVIDENCE FROM ONLINE GROCERY SHOPPING AND CROWDFUNDING
… and nudge customers’ behaviors in two types of online engagement platforms. The first one 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 …
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Is the price right? : a study of pricing effects in online grocery shopping
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Using Data To Optimize The Fulfillment And Location Decisions Of An Online Grocery Retailer
This dissertation empirically examines how an online grocer can improve its fulfillment and location-related operational decisions. In the first chapter, we examine whether fulfillment issues lead to customer defection. Based on our findings, we develop an inventory allocation rule to improve the …
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Exploring how incremental innovation can be used to enhance growth in the Nigerian online grocery business
… with low new invention drive. However, for online grocery businesses operating in Nigeria, creativity and ideas are often not matched with innovation and this in most cases results in uncoordinated and futile efforts, that give rise to ambiguity in innovation knowledge and application, which …
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Three essays on nutrition and health: sugar-sweetened beverages, postpartum military wellness, and online grocery shopping
… investigates the socioeconomic determinants of online grocery shopping adoption and usage patterns among consumers in the United States. We employ a multivariate probit model to examine three interrelated dimensions of online grocery shopping: (1) the decision to shop for groceries online, (2) …
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"The Virtual Grocery Store: A Proposal to Improve the Quality of Life for Retail Customers through a Virtual Environment"
… and integration of the Internet in our lives, online shopping has become a popular and convenient method of obtaining goods. However, there is an important experience that occurs between the customer and the product as well as the customer and the space in the actual, physical store which does …
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Essays on Sustainability in Agriculture and Food Systems
… waste. In Chapter 3, we explore the impact of online grocery shopping on household food waste. Using large-scale Nielsen Consumer Panel data and instrumental variable analysis, we establish a statistically significant causal relationship, showing that households with higher frequency of online …
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Platform thinking and business of selling groceries online : assessing US and China based platforms
… USD sales generating industry by 2023¹. The online marketplace faces various challenges - a) low profit margins, b) changing consumer habits, c) the onerous task of managing customer experience on the site, and customer delivery experience in logistics, and d) massive scale of operations …
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Developing vehicle routing and outbound fulfillment systems for an E-grocery company
… the outbound fulfillment network of an emerging online grocery ("e-grocery") company offering home delivery to the customer. In particular, the research focuses on developing an efficient, scalable home delivery network, as a result of the known challenges and relatively high fulfillment costs …
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Fulfillment center storage optimization
… pack and ship single items and small orders. Online grocery fulfillment presents a new gamut of challenges due to the unique storage and handling requirements of grocery products. As demand increases, storage space can quickly become a performance-limiting constraint. Operations managers must …
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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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Local delivery service opportunities in e-commerce
… of goods and services that have been purchased online. Such companies may or may not be engaged in other business activities aside from delivery. Local refers to deliveries that are made between origin (pickup from warehouses or stores) and destination (drop-oft) points that are within the same …
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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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Dynamic, data-driven decision-making in revenue management
… they could be sold, framing it as a general online resource allocation problem and developing a system of forecast-independent bid prices (Chapter 2). Second, we study a related assortment planning problem faced by Walmart Online Grocery, where before checkout, customers are recommended …
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Managing Demand Uncertainty for Perishable Products Through Omnichannel Grocery
… studies on the value of demand information in a grocery retail setting. Mutually aiming to improve operating outcomes and reduce food waste, the studies tackle the retailer’s daily challenge in deciding replenishment quantities while facing uncertainties in demand. Two central methods of …
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It-retorik og hverdagsliv : Et studie af fødevarehandel over Internet
… view this thesis investigates how e-commerce of grocery develops in the period 1998-2003. The empirical research is done in Sweden. Most Swedish grocery concerns that have had e-commerce and have been forced to shut down as a result of lack of demand. The starting point for this thesis is that …
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Re-Thinking Urban Retail: The Design and Planning of “Dark Stores” and Public Spaces Case Study: Manhattan, New York
… technological advancements. The recent concept, grocery “dark stores” (retail facilities that are designed for online order fulfillment mostly located in urban areas), is expected to stay as e-commerce and omni-channel operators view them as cost-effective means of delivering quick services to …