Retailers and manufacturers believe that the mere presence of certain items in a retail assortment increases the sales volume of the whole assortment. This paper provides an empirical study of the role of every item in an assortment. Our results show that many items affect category sales over...

This paper aims to identify regional properties of product categories and consumer perception and preferences of relevant grocery retailing product categories, in the Greek Island of Crete and the three cities. The dataset for this research consists of a sample of 2,000 consumers, distributed in...

Retail merchandising is the process used in order to conduct retail sales. As part of the process, the merchandiser pays close attention to the types of products offered for sale, how to best present those products to consumers, and determining what is a reasonable retail price for each unit...

The paper discusses the implications of the emerging consumers’ behavioral model for agri-food price distribution. The motivation of the study is the increasing relevance of the so-called basket-shoppers, which are consumers willing to buy multiple categories of products (including food) in a...

Nel corso degli ultimi anni si è assistito nel nostro Paese ad una rilevante crescita in quota della marca commerciale all’interno delle insegne leader della distribuzione moderna. Tuttavia, in uno scenario pur favorevole, la marca commerciale ha messo in evidenza una rilevante disomogeneità...

В статье доказана актуальность исследования методологических и методических основ АВС-подхода в связи как с необходимостью управления в современном ритейле...

This paper examines the relationship of 1987 retail grocery prices to supermarket sales concentration across 95 U.S. metropolitan areas. The regression model incorporates a large number of population, retail-cost, and retail competition factors and separate prices by type of grocery item. We...

The premise of this paper is investigation into retailer-driven agri-food supply channels. Food sector dominant UK multiple retailers have in recent years invested in close Category Management (CM) based supply channel relationships with key/ preferred suppliers (Hingley, 2004; Hingley, Lindgreen...

In this paper we study retail price promotions and manufacturer trade deals in markets with multiproduct retailers. We find that in situations where retailers carry more than one competing brand, the promotions across brands can be positively or negatively correlated depending on the structure...

Retail assortment planning can have a tremendous impact on a retailer's bottom-line performance. Over the past years, retailers have increasingly relied on their leading manufacturers for recommendations regarding the assortment to be offered to the consumers in a particular category, a practice...