One of the most significant phenomena of e-commerce is the emergence of a new form of business—the virtual store. Virtual stores provide great efficiency in the retail value chain and their existence has paved the way for the diffusion of electronic commerce. Understanding the determinants of consumer acceptance, virtual stores will provide important theoretical contributions to the area of bus...

introduction:maternal diabetes mellitus is associated with depleted fetal iron stores and this is proportionate to the degree of maternal control, presence or absence of diabetes-related complications, and is not related to maternal iron status. in this study, we aim to assess the effect of maternal diabetes on cord blood serum ferritin. methods: the present prospective (case-control) study was...

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of supermarkets’ assortments at U.S. supermarkets. We first observe that, across several product categories, the top selling items which cumulatively make up 50% of sales are viewed as core products which are sold at nearly every store. However, once the product is not a top seller, stores start to view stocking the products as optional. We t...

Because of the accessibility big data collections from consumers, products, and stores, advanced sales forecasting capabilities have drawn great attention many businesses, especially those in retail, because importance decision making. Improvement accuracy, even by a small percentage, may substantial impact on companies’ production financial planning, marketing strategies, inventory controls, s...

We describe a three-step process that a retailer can use in setting retail store sales staff level. First, use historical data on revenue and planned and actual staffing levels by store to estimate how revenue varies with staffing level at each store. We disentangle the endogeneity between revenue and staffing levels by focusing on randomly occurring deviations between planned and actual labor....

In this paper we use micro-level data on store traffic, sales and labor from 41 stores of a large retail chain to identify the extent of understaffing in retail stores and quantify its impact on sales and profitability. We show how traffic data can be leveraged in making staffing decisions through use of a structural model that captures the relationship between traffic, sales and labor. Assumin...

In order to manage medicine distribution in an appropriate manner, there is a necessity of deep understanding of its management. The challenges of the pharmaceutical products supply chain are its specified shelf life and specified storage conditions. Managing quality of medicines during distribution is a critical operation. There are various dosage forms of medicines eg tablets, syrups, injecta...