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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Retail Stores"”.
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Backroom space allocation in retail stores
… and difficult to manage resources in urban retail establishments. A typical retail space broadly consists of two areas, the customer facing frontroom area and the backroom area, which is used for inventory storage and other support activities. While frontrooms have received considerable …
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Real-Time Labour Allocation in Retail Stores
… with changing customer and store needs is key to retail store operations management. Despite considerable research on workforce management at the planning stage, there is little research on the common phenomenon of Real-Time Labour Allocation (RTLA), where mismatches between workforce supply and …
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Essays on consumer behavior in retail stores
… organization using data from an anonymous retailer. All these chapters examine some facet of consumer behavior. The first chapter estimates demand for store and national brand over-the-counter pain relievers. There is evidence that the substitution patterns between store and national brands …
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Building Inventory Simulations for High Velocity Garment Retail Stores
… store inventory planning for a brick-and-mortar retail business with high sales velocity and product portfolio complexity, this project created a Monte Carlo tool that simulates how upstream shipment decisions impact capacity utilization and product complexity. The simulation model was built in …
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Some factors affecting fresh apples purchases in retail stores
In an economy characteristics by keen competition among commodities for consumers' disposable income, the per capita demand for a product may shift over a period of time. With a decline in demand (a shift to the left of the demand curve) for a commodity, the total consumption may be less than in …
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Network methods for inventory management in capacity constrained retail stores
… unique items per year [5], selling in over 2,000 stores and generating rch16091 [British pound symbol]11.6 Bn in yearly sales [8]. Critical to this success, Zara's Distribution Department continually focuses on improving the algorithms and programs which the company uses to move clothing through …
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Strategic Management and Financial Performance in South Korean Apparel Retail Stores
… among components of Korean apparel retail stores' management strategies, (b) effects of perceived environmental uncertainty on their management strategies, (c) effects of stores' management strategies on their performance, and (d) market-orientation strategies the stores have …
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Food access in local food retail stores: a mixed method approach
… study focuses on food access in local food retail environments within three neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Food deserts are areas in which residents have limited access to healthy foods. African Americans and populations residing in low-income urban neighborhoods often have …
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A study of the application of computer technology in retail stores
Thesis. 1975. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Detection of phantom inventories at retail stores using a Bayesian approach
… existing inventory as per the data record at any retail store. Inventory on hand (IOH) record for each SKU(stock keeping unit) at any store is summation of on-shelf and back room inventory. Mismatch in this data impacts the product availability at a store and in turn results in lost opportunities …
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Determination of drivers of stock-out performance of retail stores using data mining techniques
… have a detrimental impact on the sales at the retail store level. The second part of the project focuses on understanding the relationships of store stock-out performance to various drivers. The variables that were determined to be drivers of store performance include income level of the area, …
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Effects of inflation accounting on the financial performance of retail stores in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A research thesis submitted in partial execution of the requirements for the award of the Master of Accounting (Financial) degree, Durban University of Technology, 2020.
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The impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the financial performance of retail stores in South Africa
A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Accounting, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2025.
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Multi-echelon inventory management for a fresh produce retail supply chain
… inventory levels at the distribution center and retail stores, inventory holding costs and shrinkage costs are reduced significantly. Under the optimal inventory policy, the system can save 31% in costs, improve the item fill rate at the distribution center, reduce the total shrinkage volume, and …
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Multi-echelon inventory optimization for fresh produce
… freshness is a key value to end consumers. Retailers try to maximize product freshness at retail stores while maintaining high product availability. Fresh produce that is close to the end of its life cycle will either be scrapped or be sold at a much lower price. With an increasing demand …
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Impact of quick response technology based attributes on consumer satisfaction/dissatisfaction among female apparel consumers
… satisfaction/dissatisfaction (CS/D) with apparel retail stores and to investigate the moderating effects of shopping orientations and store type on confirmation/disconfirmation (C/DC) about quick response technologies (QRT) based attributes and CS/D with a retail store. Shopping orientation …
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Commercial Cultures: Modernity in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1880--1930
Modern retail stores in the late Russian Empire and Soviet 1920s served as symbols of modernization and as agents of political, social, and cultural transformation. Modern retailers operated within the larger context of the commercial sphere, which was characterized by experimentation and …
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Understanding the influence of physical environment design on emotional well-being and its effect on consumers’ perception towards brand performance: A study in the context of a retail setting in the United Kingdom
… (PED) in the context of emotional well-being in retail stores has been widely ignored in the retailing literature so far. Moreover, from a marketing viewpoint, PED not only fulfils the purpose of creating consumer perceptions, but also reflects the success story of a brand. Yet there is not much …
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