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...

M of retail chains who seek to add new stores or close existing ones need to know the net impact of a store’s opening/closure on the overall chain performance. This requires inferring the extent to which each store generates incremental sales as opposed to competing with other stores belonging to the chain for the same set of customers. However, when the chain is experiencing a growth or a decl...

Product proliferation occurs in supply chains when manufacturers respond to diverse market needs by trying produce a range of products from limited variety raw materials. In such setting, delaying the point helps improve their responsiveness postponing ordering decisions final until there is partial or full resolution demand uncertainty. This strategy can be implemented two different ways: (i) ...

I study the impact of e-commerce on competition in retail markets. Using scanner data from a large chain that markets grocery online and through traditional stores, I illustrate that selling online reduces the barrier of geographic differentiation and allows stealing business from competitors. Between 60% and 70% of the sales made online by the chain are stolen from other grocers, the rest comi...

   The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology management elements on organizational agility using the structural equation technique. The research method was descriptive with the use of survey and the statistical population of the study consisted of all 500 managers and employees of Refah chain stores in the city of Tehran. The sample was selected through cluster <...

In recent years, due to the growth and development of financing tools methods, financial institutions are always looking for new, efficient, low-cost methods. carrying out their daily production operations, companies faced with different diverse input output flows from purchasing orders inventory receiving price sold goods, which not same in terms time. Therefore, they will inevitably look thes...

With the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity in the United States, and the minimal success of education-based interventions, there is growing interest in understanding the role of the neighborhood food environment in determining dietary behavior. This study, as part of a larger study, identifies historical data on retail food stores, evaluates strengths and limitations of the data for rese...

Over the course of calendar year 2019, businesses around globe have experienced supply chain disruption due to COVID-19 global pandemic. The strategic significance has been thrust into forefront for businesses, economies, and society at large. It become recognized by researchers industry that there is a need higher efficiency within while remaining responsive consumer needs. However, fragmented...

The increase in the Brazilian consumer market in recent years has allowed the opening of new stores, increasing price competition and diversifying the product offering. However, finding the best combination of price, quality and services, considering the cost of transport between stores is a very hard task. The complexity of the problem increases when more products and stores were involved. Thi...