Customers in electronic commerce (e-commerce) are shifting more and more from content consumers to content producers. Social media features (like customer reviews) allow and encourage user interaction in online stores. An interesting question is, which social media features are actually provided by online stores to support user interaction. We contribute knowledge to this question, by studying ...

The Supermarket Supply Chain Example A few years ago, I was enlisted by an executive vice-president of a large American supermarket chain to help focus their improvement efforts at their semi-annual supply chain conference. This supermarket corporation operated 1,800 retail stores and 125 distribution centers throughout the western two-thirds of the United States. The 35 participants in this su...

It is important for national chain stores to be able to customize their prices in individual stores to adapt to the neighborhood demand. A lot of stores collect scanner data which can be used to determine the price distribution over products which optimizes profits, and yet often this data resource is under-utilized. In previous research both parametric (such as linear regression) and non-param...

in recent decades the expansion of building infractions in many cities of developing countries, regarding one of the most important issues for denizens and urban managers. in most cases, this inordinate development will be challengeable because of cursory control and improprieties management. this study aimed at investigation and evaluation the building infractions, sort of infractions and a co...

In the past few decades the retail industry has experienced substantial growth in multistore retailers, especially chains with a hundred or more stores. At the same time, there is widely reported public outcry over the impact of these chain stores on small retailers and local communities. This paper develops an empirical model to assess the impact of chain stores on the profitability and entry/...

The traditional approach for building distributed applications is by calling a procedure in another store using an RPC mechanism. However, an RPC requires a round-trip network delay for every call and makes each store dependent on the availability of other stores. A solution to this problem is to migrate the remote objects needed to the client store, and in particular the remote procedures them...