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Using novel methodology and proprietary daily store-level sporting goods and apparel brand data, I find that, consistent with long-run adaptation to climate, sales sensitivity to weather declines with historical norms and variability of weather. Short-run adaptation to weather shocks is...
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Innovation in fashion retail is critical in order to ensure competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market, in …
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This paper examines the political complexities of retail liberalization in a developing country such as India in the …'s experiences in the past decade of allowing FDI in retail, the paper found that retail modernization is a part of economic … related to retail liberalization and design a policy that is non-discriminatory and transparent. Appropriate policies should …
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The Indian retail industry is expanding in line with the overall economical growth of the nation. Globally, the retail … ability to adapt to new technologies. Though retailers are trying to adopt better, reliable and more sophisticated retail … technology (‘e’ ability) by the Indian grocery and vegetable retailer in the emerging organised retail sector. Organised …
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We use hurricane Katrina's damage to the Mississippi coast in 2005 as a natural experiment to study business survival in the aftermath of a capital-destruction shock. We find very high exit rates for businesses that incurred physical damage, particularly for small firms and less-productive...
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trends in retail trade in the context of introduction on large-scale of information technologies, the use of smart devices …
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This paper deals with the issue of transparency in the pricing process for motor fuels, vis-à-vis the collusion charges between oil companies (for which no evidence is found) and the «myth» of «one» national price for motor fuels. Such an approach ignores both the competition between oil...
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small retail units with low turnover, retail chains were considerably developed. The domestic market began to be penetrated … by the first European retail chains in the mid-nineties of the last century. That was the spark of the change, to which … many of the players in the retail sector were not able to adapt. During this period one can notice, on the one hand, a …
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We examine retail and wholesale prices for a large supermarket chain over seven and one-half years. We find that prices … fall on average during seasonal demand peaks for a product, largely due to changes in retail margins. Retail margins for …
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and occupation specific to these sectors. The article brings out the problem of occupations from retail sector. It is … presented the critical analysis of changes that took place in occupational system in general but also in retail in particular …. The paper analyses also the occupational profile of retail employees from necessary competencies evolution point of view …
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