Retailer price promotions, and in particular multi-unit promotions such as the ubiquitous “buy one, get one” deal, are often criticized as a cause of food waste, presumably because they lure households into buying more than they can realistically consume. In this research, the authors...

Promotional favors are an increasingly popular but seldom researched form of price promotion where the receipt of the saving by consumers depends on an action on their part that is non-monetary in nature, such as completing a questionnaire, posting a review, or making a referral. This paper...

Although choosing from large assortments has often been found to be demotivating, a robust finding in the marketing literature is that consumers generally prefer larger product assortments. Standard explanations for this preference for larger assortments have focused on reason-based...