Big data has gained significant influence in recent years and is rapidly transforming the business, operations and technology landscape for a myriad of industries. Early adopters — particularly in retail and consumer products — have already derived significant business insights from big data management best practices, such as analysis of both the growing pools of structured transactional data f...

In many industries, business structures that were considered as stable over many decades have started to change rapidly, leading to a large bundle of complex, often radical and dramatic transformation needs in affected organizations. For example, due to deregulation, outsourcing, usage of electronic channels and particularly business networking, retail banking has been transformed more during t...

abstract marketing element’s contrastive behaviors toward price risk had considerable effect on marketing margin in a way that transferring increase in price to final consumer, reduces purchasing power and so consumption amounts of consumers. present study evaluated effective parameters on marketing margin in 2 level of ranch-processing and processing- retail of beef and lamb with consideration...

Campylobacter spp. is one of the most prevalent bacterial pathogens in retail meat, particularly poultry, and is a leading cause of diarrhea in humans. Studies related to Campylobacter large plasmids are limited in the literature possibly due to difficulty in isolating them using available alkaline lysis methods. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of plasmids, particu...

Campylobacter species are one of the leading causes of foodborne disease in the United States. Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are the two main species of concern to human health and cause approximately 95% of human infections. Molecular typing methods, such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) are often used to source track foodborne bact...

Multichannel retail is nowadays a widely discussed topic in the field of retail, driven by the recent boom of e-commerce. Consumer demand and competition have driven retailers to operate through multiple channels. It has been uncertain how the multichannel retail will impact the physical retail. This thesis provides a major contribution in finding out how the physical retail space is influenced...

Much of the burgeoning distress of the 1990s in the United States retail space markets reflects a mismatch in the amount and location of retail space demand and supply. Understanding the demand and supply for retail space is critically important to academics, professionals and others associated with owning, operating and financing retail space. Using data from nineteen major metropolitan statis...

According to IDC, there will be 30 billion connected things by 20201. The Internet of Things market for retail is expected to grow at a CAGR of 48.36% for the period 2014-2019 according to MordorIntelligence2. The adoption of IoT to create a more intelligent and connected retail ecosystem is referred to as the Internet of Retail Things (IoRT). By delivering networked information to relevant sys...

The Government’s initiative to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail has been a subject for debate for quite some time now. Indian retail sector has therefore attracted the attention of people from various fields including academia, industry, research organisations. The present study is undertaken to gain an insight about the present structure of Indian Retail ...

The increased presence of modern/Western style food retail outlets is changing the food retail environment in many developing countries. This phenomenon, known as “supermarketization,” is just recently taking off in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through a case study methodology, this research uses direct observation, retailer interviews, mapping, a food retail assessment and household surveys, first to d...