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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"groceries"”.
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Risk management in the major retail/groceries store
… unforgiving retail market where every large food/groceries retailoperator is deriving new strategies to surpass its rivals to achieve marketsuccess, facilities in retail stores play an important role in sustaining anddelivering quality products and services to shoppers. This in turn leads to a …
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Making groceries : food, neighborhood markets, and neighborhood recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several neighborhoods in New Orleans created neighborhood markets. Given the fact that only one such market existed prior to the storm, this was surprising. This thesis hypothesizes that neighborhood markets are responding in part to the changing and uneven …
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Automatic, Careful Online Packing of Groceries Using a Soft Robotic Manipulator and Multimodal Sensing
This thesis describes the use of soft robotic manipulators with multimodal sensing for estimating the physical properties of unknown objects to enable sorting and packing. Although bin packing has been a key benchmark task for robotic manipulation, the community has mainly focused on the placement …
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Platform thinking and business of selling groceries online : assessing US and China based platforms
… of operations required to accomplish selling groceries online². What can emerging or even established fresh food ecommerce platforms learn from Walmarts, Amazons, Alibabas and JDs of the world? What are some of the challenges both existing and new players must address in a competitive market …
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It-retorik og hverdagsliv : Et studie af fødevarehandel over Internet
… contexts affect the development of e-commerce of groceries. Empirical data from the supplier side shows that technical solutions for online grocery shopping arose from certain perceptions in the grocery business and IT sector. In the late 90's there was a strong faith in ICT (information- and …
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Credit: Part IIIof a Three Part Novel
… has fraudulently charged $56,000 worth of gas, groceries and orthodonture for the needy on Cory’s wealthy employer’s credit card. With the help of his “Existential English” professor, a week spent alone on a vision quest in the park, and a Facebook savvy friend, Cory battles to save the McVye …
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Financial Capability among Native Households
… their basic needs such as rent, utilities, food, groceries, clothing, and other household expenses. Other EITC recipients view the tax system as a savings mechanism. This is the first study of how the EITC is being used among Native populations. Study data includes 9,482 household surveys …
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Dr. StrangeBox or : how I learned to stop worrying and love urban big box retail
… emphasis on daily living essentials, fresh groceries in particular).
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Cross-cultural food consumption in Chicago: The impact of ethnic grocery stores on the availability of a healthy, affordable, and quality food supply
… on the prices and inventory available at ethnic groceries, and applying the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores to these providers, it attempts to answer three basic questions: (i) What are the defining characteristics of ethnic grocery stores in Chicago? (ii) What effects do ethnic …
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Trade beyond the margins : cross-border traders between Zambia and South Africa
… Instead, it is the exodus of people heavy with groceries, fashionable accessories and various hardware going in the direction of their home countries. In the queue are mostly Zimbabweans, Zambians, Malawians and some nationals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the return leg of a brief …
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System-images
… (VPNs), steering wheels, game consoles, and even groceries-- take images of us, using hardware and software like sensors and behavioral algorithms, with human characteristics programmed into them. Whether the information logged is visual is beside the point; vital information in the form of visual …
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Do property stokvels allow for greater economic inclusion than traditional mortgages?
… where South Africans would pool money to buy groceries at the end of a given year, has been adapted to enable people to now gain access to property (as opposed to simply purchasing groceries). There were three main objectives to the study. They are: to explore the challenges faced by South …
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The Wholesale Grocer, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
… field was primarily an assembler and purveyor of groceries. The changing times and the upheaval in the marketing structure during these past two decades have caused the wholesale grocer to alter his philosophy and to seek new goals and objectives . To attain these goals, the wholesaler in the food …
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Plastic packaging in meal kits: A life-cycle comparison of reusable and single-use packaging
… they have lower environmental impacts than groceries, while notably the packaging is a significant contributor in the case of meal kits. To counter this, there has been a call for more environmental assessments of possible changes to meal kit packaging. This cradle-to-grave life-cycle …
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Customer confusion: product overlap, ambiguous needs, and information overload : an examination of corporate mental models for derivative product creation and their impact on customers
… uses three case studies to examine the issue : Groceries (Trader Joes), Wearable Devices (Fitbit), and Semiconductor (Texas Instruments). We conclude that product ambiguity is the dominant type of customer confusion in the grocery retail industry. Trader Joe's has adopted the no sale strategy to …
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comMotion : a context-aware communication system
… it be more efficient to have a reminder to buy groceries and the shopping list delivered to you when you were in the vicinity of the store? How many times have you suddenly thought of something you must do or have just had a great idea that you want to write down, or record, for future …
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Musings from the Margins of a Polychrome Future
… for free - goodwill and gratitude doesn't buy groceries. Then in late January early February I spent a lot of time reflecting on what it is that I wanted from this project, separate from the requirements of my master's thesis, and started looking back at old idea notebooks that I've kept over …
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Educationally Resilient College Students and Their Experiences With Housing Insecurity
… hours, and reducing monthly expenses such as groceries to ensure housing affordability. The impact of these strategies increased a student's anxiety, negatively affecting their personal well-being and at times their academics. Despite these challenges, participants showed a strong resolve to …
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Anxious Totems
… going to get gasoline for the car, getting groceries for the fridge. Facing people is the worst. What if I can't articulate my thoughts to another person? What if I can't even get a word out? What if ... what if ... what if ... The body of work that I have created for my Masters of Art …
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An evaluation of a supermarket bagging task using a wrist motion monitor
… to quantify the wrist motions required to bag groceries. Subjects participated in the laboratory or in the supermarket. The wrist motions included wrist deviations, velocities, and accelerations for flexion-extension, radial-ulnar, and pronation-supination deviations. The dependent variables …
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