Supermarket retailing has a desirable property of stability of segment structure. Due to the heterogeneous needs and purchase power of customers, it is difficult to predict the lifetime of segments for retail supermarkets. In today's competitive marketplace, segment identification needs a...

This study covers the application of asymmetric accuracy metrics in the daily retail sales prediction problem. The paper is focused on the empirical validation of an accuracy metric derived from the newsvendor model. We scrutinize the accuracy metric's advantages and describe its properties....

Management is now on the verge of a breakthrough in figuring out precisely how the interactions ultimately decide performance in the service sector between knowledge flows, resources, energy, human resources, and capital equipment. How these five concepts of flow interlock to be able to...