... close to the Tokyo metropolitan area are recognisable. Rumours about Wal‐Mart, Tesco, and Marks & Spencer’s expansion into Japan have yet to materialize. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Grocery industry Retailing Marketing Logistics Just‐in‐time Japan In order to meet the adamant...

... they are not. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Internet Grocery industry Retailing USA As the year 2000 dawned, there were at least seven, apparently healthy, pure play Internet grocery companies operating in the USA. All were growing the business and entering new cities. Buoyed by numerous forecasts...

... Internet Shopping Grocery industry Home shopping Transportation Electronic commerce One of the most significant obstacles for the growth of e‐commerce in general and the e‐grocery business in particular is the lack of a suitable logistical home delivery infrastructure. By this we mean...

... of packaged goods and consumers. The analysis suggests that the Priceline system could have altered the power structure of the grocery industry, had they been able to keep the cash draining service alive and had they cultivated the appropriate partnerships. © MCB UP Limited 2001 WebHouse Club did...

.... This means that production principles (Schonberger, 1982) such as just‐in‐time (JIT) and lean manufacturing can be applied in distribution centre design (Harmon, 1993). Minimising handling and waste are powerful concepts when making order picking more efficient. Grocery industry Electronic commerce...

... a move by Age Concern and the Institute of Grocery Distribution to increase retailers’ awareness of design difficulties for people with motor and sensory problems with their “Through other eyes” campaign (de Angeli, 1995). Shopping Grocery industry Older consumers Food Older people have...

... in a fair and ethical way. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Grocery industry Retailing Loyalty schemes Over the past three years, store reward cards have become an integral feature of UK grocery retailing with the large scale operators such as Tesco, Safeway, Asda, Somerfield and Sainsbury’s all...

... of green purchasing and supply policies (e.g. B&Q hardware retailer). Retailing Ethics Grocery industry Confectionery Social responsibility The objective of the store audit was to assess the extent of CSR activities amongst food retailers, and to categorise companies...

.... The paper is not ethically prescriptive, but seeks to illustrate critically how conceptualisations of risk contribute to the social construction of ethical issues. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Risk Retailing Grocery industry Ethics Own‐label goods Statements on risk are the moral statements...

... and accessibility of the specialist stores, mainly because of the lack of appropriate statistical data. Stores Grocery industry Shopping Consumer behaviour Rural areas Finland Aura is a small rural municipality with a population of 3,300 inhabitants. It is located in south‐west Finland, only...

.... © MCB UP Limited 2000 Shopping Grocery industry Consumer behaviour Internet Supply chain If the e‐grocers want to take a substantial piece of the grocery market, they have to be able to offer their customers more value for their money than traditional grocers. The question...

..., suddenly became possible; “deals could be done which in the past would have been challenged and probably stopped on antitrust grounds”, and many LBOs were prompted by the threat of hostile takeover bids (Magowen, quoted in Wrigley, 1998a, p. 4). © MCB UP Limited 1999 Food Grocery industry...

... Consumer behaviour Grocery industry Retailing Shopping Stores Stress The decline in overall US retail sales and an increase in shopping by computer, television, mail and telephone during the late 1980s and early 1990s, is an indication of Americans’ tiredness of retail shopping hassles...

... comparisons. A case is made for some further strengthening of the relevant legislation in the UK. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Channel relationships Customer satisfaction Government Grocery industry Manufacturing industry Retailing In an article on the above topic in this journal...

... in the supercentre phenomenon such as Kmart, Wal‐Mart and Target is therefore warranted. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Consumer behaviour Food Grocery industry Marketing Retailing In the 1960s Kmart emerged as a major player in general merchandise discount retailing. For Kmart, its discount stores...

... financial pressure through high financing costs and an already heavy capital expenditure programme on new‐store openings in particular[ 5 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Australia Competitive strategy Grocery industry Market position Retail trade Australian retailing has been the subject...

...; the range and the threshold of a good (or service). Christaller’s theory attempts to explain retail patterns by the notion of a hierarchy of centres proposing that the process of centralization would lead to a clearly recognizable stepped hierarchy of centres. Central Europe Eastern Europe Grocery...

...Clifford M. Guy Examines recent developments in the UK grocery industry, particularly regarding the location, size and type of new large stores. Shows that reductions are occurring in the volume of new development compared with the early 1990s. Suggests that this appears to be due to two factors...

... German, 15.2 per cent Italian, 4.5 per cent Spanish, and 33.7 per cent British. Europe Food Grocery industry International trade Retail trade It has been suggested that international retail expansion is primarily determined by three factors: “… cultural proximity, geographical proximity...

... growth. For example, in the late 1980s it acquired the Hillards chain in West Yorkshire, an area where it was underrepresented. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Grocery industry Marketing Retailing Retail trade Scotland Of all the economic planning regions of the UK, Scotland is the most...