On the Infestation of Stored Product Pests in Candy Store (Confectionery Retail Store) in Yokohama

Stored-product insects associated with a retail pet store chain in Kansas.

The types and numbers of insect species associated with eight Kansas retail stores belonging to a pet store chain were surveyed during February to August 2001. Insects were monitored at 1-3-wk intervals using food- and pheromone-baited pitfall traps for beetles and pheromone-baited sticky traps for moths. Thirty traps of each type were placed within a store. Thirty insect species belonging to 2...

Store Characteristics in Retail Oligopoly¤

This paper assesses the e¢ciency of store characteristics in the supermarket industry using a model of store choice estimated with a consumer survey and a dataset of store characteristics. We measure the private gains to ...rms, and external impacts, of a series of counterfactual changes to store characteristics. The existing stores most pro...table to their ...rms are smaller and reduce consum...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Retail store scheduling for profit

In spite of its tremendous economic significance, the problem of sales staff schedule optimization for retail stores has received relatively scant attention. Current approaches typically attempt to minimize payroll costs by closely fitting a staffing curve derived from exogenous sales forecasts, oblivious to the ability of additional staff to (sometimes) positively impact sales. In contrast, th...

The impact of the Scanlon Plan on retail store performance