An inventory study of the energy use in cold storage installations in The Netherlands showed that frozen storage and combined chilled storage and distribution are responsible for a substantial part of the energy consumption of the sector. Two reference complexes including a standard number of refrigerated rooms can represent these two categories of plants. These reference complexes are used to ...

this study is a try to explore effects of buyer impulsivity and in-store environment factors on impulse buying in chain stores. path analyses technique was used for analyzing the model and structural equation model and t-value test for evaluating hypothesis. statistical society of this study is consumers of chain stores in tehran. by cochran method 384 people were selected as a sample.450 quest...

the purpose of this study was to identify the effects of green brand image on the green brand equity in the customers of appliance dealer's representation and appliance dealers in the chain department stores of sanandaj. research variables selected from yushan chen (2010) study. a questionnaire was used to measure theses dimensions that have been confirmed by experts and had 24 indices. it...

We describe an empirical method for classifying Internet retail sites for electronic commerce. The technique used 35 observable Internet retail site attributes and features of on-line stores as the raw data to classify the on-line stores into meaningful groups. This paper presents a classification of on-line retail stores based upon an August 1996 convenience sample of 137 Internet retail store...

1. Distribute a full line of pharmaceutical products and health and beauty aids to chain stores, independent drug stores, hospitals, and other health care facilities. In other words, FoxMeyer’s customers were retailers and dispensers. 2. Provide managed care and information-based services to health care facilities, pharmacies and physicians. 3. Conduct business in franchising variety stores and...

While it is generally accepted that data warehouses and OLAP workloads are excellent applications for column-stores, this paper speculates that column-stores may well be suited for additional applications. In particular we observe that column-stores do not see a performance degradation when storing extremely wide tables, and column-stores handle sparse data very well. These two properties lead ...

INTRODUCTION Shopping at small food stores, such as corner stores and convenience stores, is linked with unhealthful food and beverage purchases, poor diets, and high risk of obesity. However, information on how foods and beverages are marketed at small stores is limited. The objective of this study was to examine advertisements and product placements for healthful and less healthful foods and ...