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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...
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Current e‐grocery models are based on the consumer making his or her purchase over the Internet, and the e …
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growth of sporting betting operations on the Internet. The paper then discusses some of the issues surrounding sporting … betting on the Internet focusing particularly on the challenges it is seen to pose to traditional betting shop businesses.  …
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Offers a preliminary assessment of electronic commerce. Rarely has the retail and consumer services sector been faced with a strategic challenge of such significant complexity and uncertainty that is growing so rapidly. Suggests that the academic world is lagging behind the world of practice in...
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The Internet has important ethical connotations for retailing. This paper briefly provides examples of retailers …’ difficulties in this respect, before considering use of the Internet for ethical scrutiny of retailers by a spectrum of activists … and agencies. Positive use of the Internet to publicise retailers’ social responsibility contrasts with questionable …
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Between November 1999 and September 2000, Priceline.com offered a new service in grocery stores in certain US cities, which allowed customers to shop for low prices online. The service required consumers to make bids on various items and then Priceline would tell them whether their bids were...
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accounting (TA) systems in relation to Internet retail shopping. It shows that there is a role for both ABC and TA systems … depending on where managerial attention is directed towards supply chain efficiency and/or cost control. Internet retail …
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Efforts in the electronic grocery shopping, i.e. e‐grocery business, focus especially on the physical distribution of the goods. For example, in the USA there are several e‐grocery service providers with various operating concepts and offering various service levels. The home delivery...
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Considers reasons for failure among pure play Internet grocery retailers. Notes that two factors seem to be significant … substantially higher for Internet grocery retailing than for “bricks and mortar” grocery stores, and that this new channel would … have to charge consumers substantially more to reach breakeven operating levels. In fact, many pure play Internet grocers …
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What does the Internet imply for the business of banking and how will it affect it? Are branch offices “doomed” and … obsolete? Explores the major Swedish banks’ adoption of the Internet with a view to highlighting the ensuing changes in the way … increased Internet use, their role is increasingly changing as banks move from a view of the Internet as a means for improving …
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