When the online stores and the logistics service providers make decision alone, as trade off phenomenon exists, inventory costs achieve the minimum while transportation costs are not the minimum or the opposite situation occurs. When implementing inventory and transportation integrated optimization, the profit of the whole supply chain and the stores increases, while the profit of the logistics...

This paper sets out a general framework for store sales evaluation and prediction. The of retail chain with multiple stores are first decomposed into five components, then each componen...

In the context of “new retail“, various new retail models have appeared in market one after another, such as unmanned retail, and convenience stores, which are based on a model industry. At present, stores still to deal with challenges operations, including difficulty landing site selection, immature technology, low public awareness. The most important issue is supply chain cost control. It see...

OBJECTIVE To identify store tobacco policies and retailer perception and beliefs that may have contributed to changes in compliance with youth access laws in California. DESIGN In the winter of 1996-7, a cross sectional, follow up telephone survey was conducted of California store managers whose stores were anonymously surveyed for illegal tobacco sales in the summer of 1996 (that is, 1996 Yo...

OBJECTIVE This study provides a multivariate analysis of the availability of food store outlets in the US and associations with neighborhood characteristics on race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). METHOD Commercial food store outlet data are linked across 28,050 zip codes to Census 2000 data. Multivariate regression analyses are used to examine associations between the availability...

This paper aims at determining the optimal number of new facilities besides specifying both the optimal location and design level of them under the budget constraint in a competitive environment by a novel hybrid continuous and discrete firefly algorithm. A real-world application of locating new chain stores in the city of Tehran, Iran, is used and the results are analyzed. In addition, several...

Local retail stores are currently facing intense competition from both online retailers and large chain stores. An understanding of local store patronage (i.e., in one's own community) is essential to the survival growth retailers. Drawing on Social Capital Theory, we theorize show with store-level survey data influence social capital (community attachment reciprocity) a urban setting. We find ...

As retail chain store business is gaining popularity very quickly, people engaged in this sector should pay special attention to the growth of this sector. The present study aims at determining the factors constituting customer satisfaction of retail chain stores in Bangladesh. Customer satisfaction of this sector can be a pivotal indicator of how well the stores are meeting the expectations of...