This paper integrates pricing and replenishment decisions for the following prototypical two-echelon distribution system with deterministic demands. A supplier distributes a single product to multiple retailers, who in turn sell it to consumers. The retailers serve geographically dispersed, heterogeneous markets. The demand in each retail market arrives continuously at a constant rate, which is...

Omnichannel retail refers to a seamless integration of an e-commerce channel and a network of brick-andmortar stores. An example is cross-channel fulfillment which allows a store to fulfill online orders in any location. Another is price transparency, which allows customers to compare the online price with store prices. This paper studies a new and widespread problem due to omnichannel retail: ...

INTRODUCTION Food pricing policies to promote healthy diets, such as taxes, price manipulations, and food subsidies, have been tested in different settings. However, little consensus exists about the effect of these policies on the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods, on what foods consumers buy, or on the impact of food purchases on consumer health outcomes. We conducted a systematic r...

With increased competitive pressures in the grocery retailing industry, managers have greater interest in measuring the productivity of the stores of their own chain relative to the other similar stores. In this paper, we measure and compare the inefficiencies of major grocery retailers across various formats and pricing strategies using stochastic frontier (SF) methodology. Using a unique data...

Managing perishable food in a retail store is quite difficult because of the product’s short lifetime and deterioration. Many elements, such as price, shelf space allocation, and quality, which can affect the consumption rate, should be taken into account when the perishable food retail chain is designed. The modern tracking technologies provide good opportunities to improve the management of t...

With the pandemic grabbing up places all over world, decline in businesses, macro and micro, is inevitable. Among these businesses retail sector which plays an important role for any economy. Retail covers basic necessities that a human being needs. 
 dependent on many factors drive sales of company most vital one customer retention. eruption technology it highly to underscore importance s...

The goal of this economics project is to see if various retail formats actually show a difference in their pricing. To execute this project I selected a product category that the many different retail formats carried, and compared the prices of identical products sold in this category between the different retail formats. The product category I chose to research was women’s fragrances. Identica...

BACKGROUND Lebanon has alarmingly high rates of tobacco use. The objective of this study is to examine the density of tobacco retail outlets and distance to schools as well as to survey retail pricing in a large district of Beirut, Lebanon. FINDINGS We observed 100 tobacco retail outlets and collected data using iPad® technology. Store locations were recorded with Global Positioning System co...