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...

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...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Mavens' price and non-price on-pack extrinsic cue search behaviours -- Social, local and mobile commerce practices in omni-channel retailing -- No more blaming the weather: aretailer's approach to measuring and managing weather variability...

About the Guest Editors Ruth Boaden is Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at theManchester School of Management, UMIST and Director of Health Organisations ResearchCentre. Her research interests cover a wide range of areas within health services managementand include work in IT in primary...

Whilst the Internet is already exerting a considerable impact upon society, in general, it is in the arena of trade and commerce that the Internet's most significant influence has been witnessed. As global competition intensifies, an organization's effective operational performance, and...

This eBook contains 10 chapters covering a range of topics on sustainability in retailing. The first four chapters discuss sustainable products and brands, with chapters exploring social responsibility for retailers' private label brands, portfolios of sustainable labels, consumer responses to...

Illustrates how current use of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) continues to stretch the bounds of applications and techniques. The 'Best Practice' elements of each of the highlighted QFD applications are the elements that contribute to the flexibility and success of this tool

Purpose – Faced with an increasingly open society, retail concentration and population change, the purpose of this paper is to consider the challenges and potential for small towns to compete for custom from their residents. Design/methodology/approach – Retail challenges and potential are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine out‐of‐stock (OOS) challenges in the independent grocery sector with a special emphasis on in‐store root causes. The analysis aims to assess the extent and root causes for OOS in the independently controlled retail sector and provide a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore consumer patronage of extreme value retailers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a sample generated from Retail Forward panel data ( n =1,107) to explore consumer patronage of extreme value retailers. Descriptive...