Abstract This study investigates the relationship between household utilization of food services and retailers healthfulness purchases using data from 2013 Food Acquisition Purchase Survey. Overall, our findings suggest that associations service or retailer are limited. Thus, interventions may need to be targeted specific households based on patterns utilization. We also find evidence for an in...

Independent grocery shopping is one of the most functionally challenging tasks for visually impaired and blind individuals. Many assistive shopping systems have been developed to address the problem of blind grocery shopping. In this article, we identify several design requirements for assistive shopping systems and analyze existing approaches to see how well they meet them. Our objective is to...

1 Introduction With the expanding World Wide Web, an important new channel for commercial marketing, purchasing and distribution of goods has evolved. Suppliers can set up 'virtual storefronts'. Online catalogues can be used to display and describe products. These systems can support the process of ordering by means of interactive forms. In case of soft goods, i.e., digital information such as ...

This paper proposed a novel locating technology based shopping management system (LSMS) based on wireless localization technology, and described its design and implementation detail. By incorporating handheld devices, shopping mall resource management system and wireless location technology into a whole system, LSMS can make customers in a shopping mall get product information conveniently, kno...

This study aims to explore the factors that determine the attractiveness of shopping mall locations for developers, from the perspective of those who want to select site to open shopping malls in China, and to evaluate the relative importance of these factors. Through a literature review, shopping mall location, store attractiveness in the shopping mall, fit between target market customers and ...

Despite the overwhelming prediction of increasing trends for mobile shopping activities among customers based on the advantages provided by the mobile shopping channel, there is an urgent need for the re-assessment on the roles of technology adoption models and theories in explaining the adoption of mobile shopping among customers. Moreover, there is a lack of empirical testing for investigatin...

Nowadays Information and Communication Technology effects on all aspects of human activities, such as teleworking, electronic commerce, electronic banking, electronic learning, etc. the most of these services can prevent unnecessary travels in cities especially in rush hour. The aim of this study is to explore the frequency of electronic shopping and in-store shopping in Tehran, according to ge...

OBJECTIVES This study compared the risks of opioid shopping behavior and opioid abuse between tapentadol immediate release and oxycodone immediate release and, to validate the definition of shopping, examined the association between opioid shopping and opioid abuse further. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective cohort study using linked dispensing and diagnosis databases followed opioid-na...

Internet users all over the world are increasing day by day and showing great interest for online shopping. The main reason for the high usage of the internet is the affordable price of mobile gadgets and low internet tariff plans. Consumer behavior is influenced by various factors such as culture, social class, reference groups relationship, family, income level and income independency, age, g...