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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Retail industry"”.
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Transportation resource scheduling in food retail industry
… scheduling the daily driver tasks in the grocery industry. The goal is to maximize driver utilization. A "Bin-packing" approach is employed to solve the problem. A Bin-packing problem concerns packing a list of items into the minimal number of unit capacity bins. In our problem, the drivers …
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Child care in the retail industry in Victoria
… and attitudes of those who work within the retail industry in Victoria and it concentrates on the needs of parents with children aged under 13 years old. A number of issues are presented as part of the background information for this research: a summary of the historical developments in …
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Demand allocation strategies in the seasonal retail industry
… in Seattle, Washington. It revolutionized the retail industry by being one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. It is an international company servicing countries throughout the world with goods ranging from books to jewelry. Amazon.com fulfills its customers' orders …
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An RFID-based visual recognition system for the retail industry
… thesis, I aim to build an accurate fine-grained retail product recognition system for improving customer in-store shopping experience. To achieve high accuracy, I developed a two-phase visual recognition scheme to identify the viewed retail product by verifying different types of visual features. …
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Blockchain with smart contract for reverse shopping of retail industry branded plastic packaging
Retail industries use an enormous number of plastics, especially packaging. "Reverse Shopping," that is, the returning of branded plastic packaging to the point of purchase (respective retail brands) by deploying blockchain with smart contracts, is our research focus. Employing a local blockchain, …
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First Bosses' Primary Early Career Mentor Influence on Women Leaders in the Retail Industry
<p>Women hold the majority of positions in the retail industry; however, they hold proportionally fewer top leadership positions than men. Therefore, it is important to understand the opportunities in leadership development available to women in the retail industry so that appropriate professional …
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Exploring the application of Word2Vec to basket transaction data in the grocery retail industry
… transaction data provided by a large grocery retailer in South Africa. Word2vec is an algorithm based on representation learning. The objective of the exploration is to establish whether the application of Word2vec to basket transaction data would generate product embeddings that represent a …
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An economic cost benefit analysis of internal and external warehouses in food retail industry
… and the external warehousing for the food retail industry, while addressing the following issues: 1. Advantages and disadvantages of an internal and external warehouse. 2. Importance of alignment of logistics strategy and corporate strategy. 3. Vendor items which should be outsourced or …
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Business innovation and regulatory enforcement: case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA
… from the enforcement of RCRA in the Big Box retail system. This study used contingency theory to establish a foundation for analysis of the Big Box business system innovation through identification of structural elements, external influences, and their subsequent interactions associated with …
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Analysis and design of resonant inductively coupled circuits : application to benefit denial solutions for the retail industry
ProTeqt develops benefit denial solutions that are electromagnetically deactivated. A magnetic field from the deactivation tablet inductively heats an enabler that provides the proper force to disengage the locking mechanism. Its latest design was not functional at one inch above the deactivation …
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Development of a comprehensive supply chain performance measurement system : a case study in the grocery retail industry
… that can be used by a company in the grocery retail industry to measure the efficiency of its supply chain. This metric set is well balanced because it encompasses six different criteria: comprehensive, causally oriented, vertically integrated, horizontally integrated, internally comparable, …
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The drivers of retail performance : the true value of online and in-store sales in an evolving retail industry
… spatial and operational efficiencies of major US retailers in relation to their physical real estate and e-commerce footprints. The continued rise of e-commerce has altered the dynamics of the retail industry in such a way that has forced retailers to drastically reallocate their resources to stay …
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An analysis of current supply chain best practices in the retail industry with case studies of Wal-Mart and Amazon.com
… this thesis identifies current best practices in retail industry supply chains, with a specific focus on mass merchandising and Internet retailing. Using a survey of current literature for context and industry expert interviews, this thesis assesses the current state of the retail industry and …
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Psychological impacts of COVID-19 on Indian immigrants working in the retail industry of Auckland, New Zealand, and their job performance
… on the lives of Indian immigrants working in the retail industry and their job performance? 2) What are the potential psychological impacts of COVID-19 on those Indian immigrants who previously worked in the retail industry but were made redundant and are now studying again to upskill to meet the …
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Consumer protection and service delivery by the retail industry in the greater Durban area : the legal implications of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Master’s Degree in Marketing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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International apportionment mechanisms for VAT inputs - Is the turnover basis the best mechanism for all retail industries in South Africa?
… input VAT has particular relevance to the retail industry due to the increase in the extension of credit which results in the receipt of taxable supplies (ordinary sales) and exempt supplies (interest income). As retailers are therefore making mixed supplies, they are required to apportion …
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Retail of the future : O2O or O&O?
Retail industry has transformed in the first decade of this century and new trends continue to disrupt it. Rise of the online channel has pushed the entire retail industry to innovate and think of novel ways to attract and retain customers. With increasing competition, retailers need to …
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