The failure to understand the mistakes of the past is causing many US retailers, with their “narrow areas of expertise”, not to commit sufficient resources to monitoring how changes in the demographic, technological, political, and economic environments have affected and will continue to...

In this paper we consider the problem of outlet pricing and location in the context of unobserved spatial demand. Our analysis constitutes a scenario wherein capacity-constrained firms set prices conditioned on their location, demand and costs. This enables firms to develop maps of latent demand...

Purpose – The paper aims to form system dynamics modeling in introduced in conjunction with econometric analysis and planned scenario analysis which will uniquely structure the process whereby the ex ante capital values of the prime retail real estate sector. Design/methodology/approach –...

Compares the gross margins on a range of retail business categories across six European Community countries and the USA, using data derived from official national statistics. Results show that the USA had the highest gross margins for most comparable categories, followed by Britain, and Ireland...