Older shopper types from store image factors

Clever Shopper: Supporting In-Store Decision-Making

Grocery shopping can be a difficult task where the users are overwhelmed by the number of products available. It can be daunting to efficiently locate products and make decisions among dozens of brands to meet personal priorities (e.g, budget or nutritional value). To date, existing interactive systems supporting the grocery shopping experience do not help shoppers make informed decisions based...

An Exploratory Study of Shopper Perception and Shopping Duration in a Virtual Reality (VR) Store

The Relevance of Shopper Logistics for Consumers of Store-based Retail Formats

This paper discusses and empirically evaluates the relevance of shopping-related logistics for consumers of store-based retail formats. Based on a literature review a conceptual model was developed and subsequently tested using a survey of more than six hundred consumers in the grocery retail sector. Respondents were those primarily responsible for grocery shopping in their households located i...

Store Format Choice and Shopping Trip Types

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to identify store format attributes that impact on store format choice when consumers conduct fill-in or major trips to buy groceries. By doing so, we take into consideration that consumers patronise multiple (store-based) formats depending on the shopping situation operationalised by the type of shopping trip. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts t...

The Clever Shopper Problem

We investigate a variant of the so-called Internet Shopping problem introduced by Blazewicz et al. (2010), where a customer wants to buy a list of products at the lowest possible total cost from shops which offer discounts when purchases exceed a certain threshold. Although the problem is NP-hard, we provide exact algorithms for several cases, e.g. when each shop sells only two items, and an FP...