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In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops …. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested … that supermarkets may contribute to rising rates of obesity. However, most existing research looked at adult populations …
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Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a...
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gender differences with respect to the criterion of grocery product price within an Australian supermarket retail environment …
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Family grocery shopping is the accepted domain of women; however, modern social and demographic movements challenge traditional gender roles with in the family structure. Men now engage in grocery shopping more freely and frequently, yet the essence of male shopping behaviour and beliefs present...
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Extract: In 1948, the brothers Theo and Karl Albrecht opened the grocery store ‘Albrecht Discounts’ (Aldi) in Essen (Ruhr Valley), Germany. The store had a simple layout and offered a restricted number of products at a low price. The company grew rapidly, owning 13 stores in 1950 and about...
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.---------------------------------------------The investigation object of this article is the intern logistic system of FLV at supermarkets. The general objective is to characterize … the intern logistic operations used at supermarkets. The specifies objectives are: a) to identify the activities and flows … adopted by supermarkets in relation to FLV management. The study of this thematic is justified because (of) the necessity of …
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between different comunas in Santiago. We explore the role ofaverage income, number of supermarkets, and price variation in …
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This article extends the Berry, Levinsohn, Pakes (1995) model to include retail services by Boston supermarkets in an … equilibrium model of breakfast cereals and then tests alternative vertical pricing games between manufacturers and supermarkets to … ascertain who’s got the pricing power. Empirical results show that retail services play a significant role in market equilibrium …
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, consumers haveexperienced highly competitive retail markets. In this paper, it is argued that it is marketconduct, not structure …
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A wide range of the empirical studies shows to what extend the rise of supermarkets indeveloping countries deeply … restructuring (supermarkets) onupstream decisions (producers). The results show first that producers are not aware ofthe final buyer … supermarkets are more sensitive to their requirements in terms of quality and packaging than to the price premia they set …
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