Households incur transaction costs when choosing among offline stores for grocery purchases. They may incur additional transaction costs when buying groceries online versus offline. We integrate the various transaction costs into a channel choice framework and empirically quantify the relative...

As the importance of online grocery shopping increases, both pure-play online grocers and multichannel grocers are likely to be interested in setting optimal prices for their online stores. We use a unique household scanner panel dataset to investigate how a grocery retailer with both online and...

This paper investigates online and offline consumer choice behavior. Empirical research comparing online and offline consumer behavior has traditionally been based on comparisons between different sets of consumers, and therefore has been unable to isolate the effect of the Internet on consumer...