... to survive and remain competitive in today’s hypercompetitive and uncertain business environment. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of CI in liquor retailing in the USA. Regardless of the small size of the company, the owner has an active attitude toward monitoring competition by using...

... al., 2012), thus taking ownership of the local content and communication style to and from their customers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 USA Technology adoption Job performance Apparel industry Retail employees Studies of technology use among sales personnel...

... a neighborhood shopping area in Madison, Wisconsin, a medium‐sized city in the mid‐western region of the USA. It finds that well‐educated, affluent residents in both locations believe that they should have input regarding the retail composition of local shopping areas, and that their resistance to new stores can...

.... Translation and calibration equivalence were assessed through back‐translation methods, while metric equivalence was assessed through both the sampling method and the statistical analysis. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Pricing Marketing Consumer behaviour Poland USA Global trends including...

... implications are discussed to include ways banks can improve the level of technology‐based service they provide to their customers. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Service quality Banks Technology Service delivery system Perceptions USA Managers in virtually all industries understand...

...Jonathan Reynolds Whilst the events of 2000 and 2001 would appear to have reduced significantly the attractiveness of e‐commerce as a viable source of revenue growth for retailers, writing off electronic distribution channels may be premature. Growth in online transactions in, for example, the USA...

... marketing USA Over the past several years scholarly (and not so scholarly) writing concerning the marketing potential for e‐commerce reflects perspectives ranging from absurd to practical, utopian to useless, highly efficient to highly inefficient. It all started with hopes for a “new” economy...

... provide additional benefits such as enjoyment and social interaction. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Retailing Internet Consumer behaviour Innovation Benefits USA The recent evolution in retailing has involved a shift towards non‐store formats, especially through electronic means (Mulhern...

...Marta Frasquet; Irene Gil; Alejandro Mollá; Teresa Vallet This paper describes the evolution of research in retailing comparing three different geographic regions: Spain, Europe and the USA. Working on the basis of a bibliographic review of the academic research published between 1996 and 2000...

...Paul T. McGurr Compares and contrasts the largest retail firms based in Asia, Europe and the USA. Data were obtained from AsiaWeek 1000, Fortune 500 and Europe 500 statistics. It is hoped that the baseline obtained through this research might serve as a basis for further research...

... effective the relationship is perceived to be by the member. The presence of retail cooperatives selling hardware in the USA dates back to the early 1900s (Feder, 1997). The first cooperative organization in the USA that specialized in the retail hardware industry is believed to be American Hardware (name...

...? © 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...

... workers and students in the USA and Korea were surveyed with questions designed to measure group integration using an individualism/collectivism scale, and price and brand importance using a revised decision making scale cross‐culturally. The findings implied that consumers with individualist/collectivist...

... at all in the 1995 ranking of industry concerns. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Retailing Food industry USA Marketing environment Consumer behaviour The food retail industry, which encompasses grocery stores, supermarkets, and other food stores, is one of the most important and dynamic...

... behaviour Consumer marketing Marketing management Retailing Shopping USA Jubilee Foods, a Wisconsin grocery chain, locates the bakery near the entrance of a supermarket. Jubilee believes the first experience that a grocery shopper should have is the aroma of fresh‐baked items (Bakery Production...

... retailers, Ahold and Sainsbury, the USA has provided such a new market. The aim of this paper is to compare briefly the variations in levels of provision between the UK and the USA and to then focus on an analysis of US state variations. Following a brief account of the changing structure of US food...

... countries can be detected. In this paper an empirical analysis will be undertaken of the moves to internationalise into America (particularly the USA) by the leading 200 retail distributors in Europe. The most appropriate strategies for different formats of company will be studied. In the context...

...John Fernie; Suzanne I. Fernie It is not uncommon for the USA to be the origin of innovative retail formats. In recent years in the UK, the most recent retail out‐of‐town developments have their roots in the USA, most notably warehouse clubs and factory outlet centres. Charts the growth of one...

... Internet Retailing USA How things have changed in just two short years! Two years ago few marketers had much of a presence on the Internet. Those who did were often selling some sort of computer apparatus complete with boring white and black text. In order to make an assessment of retail presence...

... of EDI use in the retail industry. EDI Retail trade USA © MCB UP Limited 1997 Advances in computer and communications technology have expanded the traditional role of information systems (IS) from the creation, storage, transformation and transmission of information within...