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Showing 1 to 20 of 1696 for “"retail"”.
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Quantifying the art of retail site selection : a retail case study
… will yield the highest sales, the opinion among retailers remains that once the demographic, market, and sub-market analysis is complete, the choice of where to open a store within a sub-market is a matter of "feeling". Science can help a retailer pinpoint an optimal intersection that will enable …
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Bridging the gap: factors driving retail analytics adoption in traditional retail businesses
… investigates how South Africa's traditional retail sector adopts advanced analytics amid infrastructural, cultural, and economic constraints. Guided by the Technology Organisation-Environment (TOE) framework and Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory, it addresses a critical gap in …
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Essays on Retail Lending
My dissertation consists of three essays on retail lending. In the first essay, using data from Lending Club and Prosper, the two largest peer-to-peer lenders in the U.S., I provide evidence of adverse selection in the online personal lending market. Borrowers who were rejected by a competitor are …
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The future of retail
The retail environment in the United States has passed through several massive changes since the 1880's. From its beginnings, retail has connected buyers to suppliers; even today, that basic premise has not changed. This paper will walk through the various eras of retail highlighting innovations …
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Shopping Orientations, Retail Attributes and Retail Format Choice Among Generation Y Apparel Shoppers
… study explores shopping orientations, desired retail attributes and retail format choice among a sample of Generation Y apparel shoppers in the U.S. (N = 215). The research links shopping orientations (e.g., price consciousness, brand/fashion consciousness, brand loyalty) and important retail …
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Exploring the future of sustainable pioneering automotive retail formats: How to map automotive retail customer segments to today's and future retail formats?
En medio de una transformación profunda en el sector automotriz premium, esta tesis analiza qué formatos físicos de venta minorista se adaptan con mayor eficacia a los comportamientos cambiantes de los consumidores y cuáles son preferidos por cuatro tipos de buyer persona (humanista, metódico, …
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Investigating the motivation of retail managers at a retail organisation in the Western Cape
… it was found that students entering a career in retail viewed intrinsic aspects as the most important predictor of a retail career, followed by lifestyle flexibility aspects and then extrinsic aspects. Furthermore, research within a service organisation has indicated that various biographical …
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GreenLife: A Sustainable Retail Space
GreenLife is the name of the retail interior design project that embodies this thesis. Using interior design as a medium to influence customers,I sought to create an environment that promotes a connection to nature and an awareness of creative possiblities within the context of a store. It …
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Retail Price Time Series Imputation
… intervals. Here we consider regular, discrete, retail price time series datasets acquired through crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a means of data collection whereby independent individuals push publicly-available information to an information consolidator who then distributes it back to the …
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Essays in Food Retail Demand
<p>The aim of this dissertation is to examine, model and estimate the importance of</p><p>demand factors that shape the diet quality choices of the U.S. households. In particular,</p><p>I focus on the low-income households because these households are consuming</p><p>food of lower diet quality. …
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Buying a Small Retail Business
There are many opportunities in the small retail business field for an individual desiring to operate his own establishment. Retail business is a facinating and attractive field to many. It is easy to enter, requires little capital, and no one is barred because he lacks either experience or skill. …
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Inventory positioning in modern retail
Modern retail has been significantly affected by the surge in online platforms and product options. Customers have comfortably settled into an omni-channel model, in which they buy different products through different channels. While customers expect a seamless process in getting the products they …
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A retail video acquisition system
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Residential property values and neighborhood retail : a comparison of pedestrian and automobile oriented retail clusters
… within walking distance of pedestrian accessible retail. To answer this question two types of retail clusters are identified in the Boston metropolitan area-pedestrian oriented and automobile oriented--and comparisons are made between their effects on surrounding residential property values. …
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Investigating the design of the retail payment system: Focusing on the retail payment sector in Japan
… to the digital economy. Among these, in the retail payment sector, which deals with customer contact and payment information, a trend to review interbank retail payment systems is occurring in many countries. The UK initiative has led the way, and similar efforts to instantiate and remake …
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Benchmarking U.S. beef retail cut composition
An assortment of 1,551 retail cuts were purchased from eleven cities across the United States to study their physical and chemical composition. Information with regard to external fat thickness, package weight, price per kilogram, and total package price were collected at the retail store. Cuts …
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Business excellence model for retail banking
… now do much more to excel in the competitive retail banking environment of the new millennium. It is believed, and the findings of the present work support, that the formulation of a robust improvement model capable of guiding through the whole excellence pursuant process will provide a solid …
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The British retail co-operative movement
The research concluded that whilst the Co-operative Movement has identifiable qualities and characteristics which are (or could be made to be) different from its competitors, it has as yet not shown a determination or consistency of purpose in making the most of these elements to further its aims …
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Dishonesty and social presence in retail
… To further explore social presence within a retail environment and validate the perceptions from SCO Staff, Study 3 investigated the role of the security guard in terms of their social presence and explored their perceptions of thefts at self-service checkouts. Interviews with 6 security …
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