Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- The representation of shopping in children's books -- Perception of young children of the ideal shopping experience -- Convenience stores and discretionary food consumption among young Tokyo consumers -- Exploring children's responses to...

The second issue of 2005 is a themed issue on online shopping with authors fromDenmark, the US and Taiwan. Our first contribution is from Torben Hansen fromCopenhagen Business School. His paper seeks to investigate whether consumers whohave adopted online grocery buying perceive this innovation...

Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Shopping for kids' luxury brands: young mothers'identity quest in retail spaces -- Doing it for the kids: the role of sustainability in family consumption -- Children's experiences and parents' perceptions of retailers' mobile applications...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to develop and empirically test a theoretical model of competition between anchor and non‐anchor stores in a shopping mall. In doing so, the goals are to extend the literature on retail co‐location to account for effects of anchor stores' quality levels,...

Reports a preliminary assessment of consumer response to and demand for online food retail channels. Data were collected from 243 US consumers who currently buy their groceries online. The majority of online users were younger than 55 years of age, female, and reported annual incomes of $70,000...

Defines a particular form of returned purchases and explores its pervasiveness. Consumers who engage in “retail borrowing” purchase items with the deliberate intention to return such items once they have been used satisfactorily. To facilitate the purchases of good and to act responsibly...

Examines whether respondents’ attitudes towards companion selling (i.e. suggesting the purchase of a related good) varies based on two hypothetical situations. The results suggest that overall there are some differences in attitudes based on the selling context. However, overall respondents...

Current e‐grocery models are based on the consumer making his or her purchase over the Internet, and the e‐grocer delivering the purchase to the household. However, there are numerous opportunities for innovative new services. Analyzes the opportunities offered by bar code and radio...

Focuses on consumer evaluations of store preference when presented with promotional deals that are equivalent on a unit‐cost basis and/or are equivalent on a total cost basis but are worded differently. An experimental design setting is used to examine the effect of three deal frames: one,...

The state of Maine was selected for study, since adequate sales tax records were available during the early 1990s, when Wal‐Mart entered the state. The sales tax reports were used to document the retail sales of Wal‐Mart towns, neighboring towns, and other towns in the state, in the years...