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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the role that visual measures of attention to product and information and price display signage have on purchase intention. The authors assessed the effect of visual attention to the product, information or price sign on purchase intention,...

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

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...

Explores the concept of viewing retail customers as partial employees. When retailers provide services to customers, they tend to rely solely on store employees, missing out on a hidden asset, their customers. When shopping, customers perform two roles: in‐role; and extra‐role. The former...

The “food deserts” debate can be enriched by setting the particular circumstances of food deserts – areas of very limited consumer choice – within a wider context of changing retail provision in other areas. This paper’s combined focus on retail competition and consumer choice shifts...

Interest is increasing interest in the links between social exclusion and access to both grocery and retail stores. There is however little knowledge of the extent to which consumers lack convenient access to retail facilities. Data from 30,000 households from the 1999‐2000 Scottish household...

Purpose – To provide a general understanding of grocery consumers' retail format choice in the US marketplace. Design/methodology/approach – A random sample of US grocery consumers ( N =454) was surveyed using a self‐administered questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistical...