The development of information technology and Internet has led to rapidly progressed in e-commerce and online shopping, due to the convenience that they provide consumers. E-commerce and online shopping are still not able to fully replace onsite shopping. In contrast, conventional online shopping websites often cannot provide enough information about a product for the customer to make an inform...

BACKGROUND The association between farmers' market characteristics and consumer shopping habits remains unclear. Our objective was to examine associations among distance to farmers' markets, amenities within farmers' markets, frequency of farmers' market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption, and body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that the relationship between frequency of farmers' mark...

Firm scope benefits consumers by allowing them to purchase multiple goods at one location like supercenters, malls, or department stores. This paper quantifies the consumer benefit of introducing one-stop shopping as a new shopping choice, and in turn, estimates the benefit to firms. I exploit an exogenous change in the allowable firm scope in Washington State, which recently deregulated the re...

Information on grocery shopping patterns is one key to understanding dietary changes in recent years in Spain. This report presents an overview of Spanish food shopping patterns in the adult population. A cross-sectional, nationally representative telephone survey was conducted in Spain. Individuals were asked about food shopping responsibility roles, types of visited food stores, time spent, a...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...

We propose an agent-based grocery shopping system, which automates grocery shopping process. Agents gather grocery information from several store server agents and compare it with user’s preferences of groceries and stores. The agents could adapt to user’s up-to-date preferences by learning from his/her evaluation of previous shopping results. The proposed agent-based grocery shopping system is...

In this paper we present a simulation prototype of the customers’ shopping behavior in a mall using a knowledge-based multiagent geosimulation approach. The shopping behavior in a shopping mall is performed in a geographic environment (a shopping mall) and is influenced by several shopper’s characteristics (internal factors) and factors which are related to the shopping mall (external or situat...

The popularization and rapid development of the Internet has fostered the growth of online shopping leading it to become an important new channel for consumers to make purchases. However, the Internet users’ rate of satisfaction has declined since online shopping has become an important consumer option. In order to improve customer satisfaction and to enhance the shopping experience, it is very...

We use health insurance claims data from 63 large employers to estimate the extent of price shopping for nine common outpatient services in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) compared to traditional health plans. The main measures of price-shopping include: (1) the total price paid on the claim, (2) the share of claims from low and high cost providers and (3) the savings from price shopping...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...