The Swiss study of the value of travel time savings (VTTS), conducted by König, Axhausen und Abay (2004) reported unexpectedly high values for shopping trips from early experimental stated preference experiments, which were finally not included in the main study. Therefore a study focusing only shopping travel was conducted to see, if these results could be replicated. This study estimates VTTS...

Planning policies in several European countries have aimed at hindering the expansion of out-of-town shopping centers. One argument for this is concern for the increase in transport and a resulting increase in environmental externalities such as CO2-emissions. This concern is weakly founded in science as few studies have attempted to measure CO2-emissions of shopping trips as a function of the ...

This study examines the factors influencing online shopping behavior of urban consumers in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India and provides a better understanding of the potential of electronic marketing for both researchers and online retailers. Data from a sample of 1500 Internet users (distributed evenly among six selected major cities) was collected by a structured questionnaire covering dem...

An estimated 24,200 children younger than 15 years, 20,700 (85%) of whom were younger than 5 years, were treated in US hospital emergency departments in 2005 for shopping cart-related injuries. Approximately 4% of shopping cart-related injuries to children younger than 15 years require admission to the hospital. Injuries to the head and neck represent three fourths of all injuries. Fractures ac...

In recent years, the construction of shopping malls is rising across the country. But only some of them were successful to accommodate a large number of visitors while the other ones are constantly changing the commercial units’ use. while the decline in demand for commercial units in form of multi-purpose complexes as well as the country recession have aroused this situation. Therefore, in thi...

Everything in the world is shifting towards digital which no exception and ultimately market as well. The place where buyers sellers meet together virtual form exchange goods services online called E – Commerce. It also known I Commence. fastest growing media recent times Internet. foundation of a new era. Online shopping one very fast rising e-commerce platform.Online stores are always availab...

• We examine how SNAP participants’ primary time use behaviors vary over the benefit month relative to comparable non-participants. The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and ATUS’ Eating Health Module (EHM) are used. participants spend less on food production activities compared non-participants toward end of month. allocations show important variation across for several activities. Understanding...

The author describes how the pandemic impacted ways of obtaining food provisions and culinary practices 27 in-depth interview respondents. study was conducted in May 2021 Poland, using a structured qualitative interview, with purposive respondent sample selected snowball method. notion habit used analysis material collected, findings were compared to research studies on similar topics available...

Electronic commerce recently has become a heavily discussed possibility to use the Internet. In particular tele-shopping is seen as one of the most interesting features of networks. Since the treatment of all relevant topics concerning tele-shopping (namely who, when, why, what and how) would go far beyond the scope of the paper , the focus of this article will be on the WHO. This question is i...