Omni-channel retailers systematically connect their sales and communication channels to create a seamless shopping experience. Influencing customers in their channel choices can result in reduced cost to serve customers and increased revenue. To achieve this, comprehensive omni-channel customer...

Retailers face increasing competitive pressure to determine how best to deliver products purchased on-line to the end customer. As online retailing grows, so does the need for retailers to establish an appropriate fulfillment strategy. This is particularly true in grocery where the customer must...

We document the development of academic research on retail analytics and compare it with current practice. We provide a definition of retail analytics, describe its evolution, and conduct bibliometric analyses on 123 retail analytics articles published in top operations journals in the 2000-2020...

Research on food waste has attracted particular interest in recent years. This development is relevant not only to reach the aim of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to halve food waste by 2030 but also to tackle associated problems such as the wastage of other...