...Constantinos Vasilios Priporas USA Strategic decisions Case study Sources of information Competitive intelligence Liquor retailing © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competitive intelligence (CI) is a vital tool...

.... Task importance will not moderate the effect of perceived ease of use on perceived enjoyment for (a) the body scanner, (b) product configurator, and (c) social networking. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 USA Technology adoption Job performance Apparel industry Retail employees...

... 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...

... Consumer behaviour Poland USA Global trends including home market saturation, the reduction of trade barriers and homogenization of consumer tastes have prompted many Western retailers to seek opportunities across borders. Successful practice of international retailing has become the new frontier...

... system Perceptions USA Managers in virtually all industries understand that providing quality customer service is a key strategic component in firm profitability. The importance of service delivery and its impact on improving satisfaction and retention of customers, improving sales and market...

...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...

... Internet Food Retailing Consumer 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...

... USA The recent evolution in retailing has involved a shift towards non‐store formats, especially through electronic means (Mulhern, 1997). Although non‐store retail sales are only a small portion of total retail sales (less than 10 per cent), non‐store retailing is the fastest growing segment...

...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...

... behaviors (Wagner, 1995). Retailing Group dynamics Internal communications USA Recent changes in membership size of retail cooperatives in the USA hardware industry provide an interesting topic for study. Large membership for retail cooperative groups is necessary to achieve economies...

... 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...

... 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...

... of the industry. The eighth most important concern was insufficient transportation infrastructure. For details about these issues, see Table I and Adelaja et al. (1997). Retailing Food industry USA Marketing environment Consumer behaviour The food retail industry, which encompasses...

... 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...

... addresses and online status at the time of data collection. © MCB UP Limited 1997 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...

...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...

... of EDI use in the retail industry. © MCB UP Limited 1997 EDI Retail trade USA The respondents’ titles reflects the diversity of managerial personnel involved with EDI in companies. However, most of the respondents could be classified as representatives of four major areas, namely...