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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"supermarket"”.
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Heat pipe dehumidification for supermarket energy savings
… pipe installed in the air conditioning unit of a supermarket to increase the level of dehumidification of the inside air. This dehumidification is expected to reduce the energy consumption of the refrigeration system due to an improved efficiency of the heat transfer at the display case. This …
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Repacking the supermarket: food retail evolution and futures
… little attention in the field of architecture, supermarkets represent a key shopping space in UK cities and are the main interface between consumers and food supply chains. Spatially, supermarkets are generic, designed to create a convenient shopping experience but beyond the consumer-facing …
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Supermarket Departure: An Urban Community Center for Food Education
… of food production and distribution. The modern supermarket operates as a segregation of functions, made possible through a lack of transparency - deliberately hiding the origins and processing of food from consumers. As participants in this chain, we propagate the intense impacts it has on the …
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Supermarket tabloid influence on mainstream daily newspaper editorial content
… This study compared the content of three weekly supermarket tabloids--the National Enquirer, Globe, and Star--against the content of six daily newspapers--the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun, Reno Gazette-Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and USA Today--over a 26-week period. …
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Vertical product differentiation and competition in the supermarket industry
… dataset of store level observations from the supermarket industry. Chapter 2 provides a formal test of the hypothesis that the high levels of concentration observed in the supermarket industry are the result of competitive investment in endogenous sunk costs. Using the bounds regression …
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Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
<p>With the growing popularity of dollar stores, concerns have surfaced over the potential relationship between dollar stores and the closures of grocery stores. Healthy food accessibility for consumers, particularly those in rural areas, has additionally become of great interest. This thesis aims …
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On queue audience--calculating reach and frequency for supermarket television
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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The effect of contemporary supermarket formats (superstores) on surrounding residential property values
… prices are affected by proximity to contemporary supermarket formats known as superstores. The hypothesis is that both amenity and disamenity effects exist. Supermarkets are generally considered to be an amenity and a convenience in residential communities where they are located. It is thus …
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An evaluation of a supermarket bagging task using a wrist motion monitor
… injuries two to three times higher than other supermarket departments. The primary objective of this study was 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 …
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Capital structure and product market competition : an empirical analysis of the supermarket industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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The relationship of parent and child food choices: influences of a supermarket intervention
… project investigated the influences of a supermarket intervention on the food choices of parents and their children. Twenty-four families (11 experimental; 13 control) participated in this study. They used the NLS weekly when they completed their major shopping. The NLS was a public …
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FDI and regulation with particular reference to entry of multinational supermarket firms into Malaysia
… multinational firms (MNFs), that of services and supermarket firms. This focus contrasts sharply with most previous works on FDI, which have concentrated on manufacturing FDI and manufacturing firms. While the empirical works on FDI have also typically used aggregated data in conjunction with …
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Life in the City: Housing, History and the Supermarket, an Episode in Urban Architecture
The project began as a response to a proposal to construct a suburban style grocery store and surface parking lot in the middle of an existing residential neighborhood, including the substantial demolition and 'strip-mall' conversion of a historic theater located on the Washington, DC site. The …
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Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town.
This thesis explores the management of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. In doing so it highlights both its underutilisation and its potential transition from waste to resource. Through an extended micro study of a single case study store it traces the management of food waste from the …
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The study of occupational risk factors and interventions for baker's allergy and asthma among supermarket bakery workers
… among 517 bakery workers employed in 31 supermarkets. Health outcomes were assessed using a standardized questionnaire, immunological tests (sIgE, sIgG), methacholine challenge test and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO). Exposure assessment conducted pre- and post-intervention …
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Internal organization and management of fresh produce marketing in retail supermarket chains: implications for marketing specialty produce
… of the fresh produce marketing system in retail supermarket chains and to assess the marketing opportunities for specialty produce therein. Results provide new growers with knowledge of the retail industry necessary to establish good relationships with retailers. A selective sample of 17 retail …
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If You Build It, Will They Come, and What Will They Eat? Investigating Supermarket Development in Food Deserts
… with low physical access to full-service supermarkets, commonly called "food deserts." These often have disproportionately high rates of poverty and minority residents, raising additional issues for local officials and advocates. Widespread research has also documented associations between …
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