Do store brands aid store loyalty by enhancing store differentiation or merely draw price sensitive customers with little or no store loyalty? This paper seeks to answer the question by empirically investigating the relationship between store brand loyalty and store loyalty. First, we find a robust monotonic positive relationship between store brand loyalty and store loyalty using multiple loya...

Purpose: This research investigates role of store brands as a time and money saving heuristic in the context of an omnipresent store brand hierarchy. Drawing on the work of Tversky and Kahneman (1982) it proposes that the store brand hierarchy is characterised by many of the traits of frequently used heuristics employed by grocery shoppers. Design/methodology/approach: Based on Chaiken’s (1980)...

Several surveys show that a significant number of customers leave retail stores because they cannot find the products for which they are looking (e.g. Most research in operations management focuses on two factors to explain lack of product availability—poor assortment and poor inventory planning. Our research with several retailers during the last few years highlights a third factor, poor execu...

Introduction: selecting a specialty is one of the most difficult decision of medical practitioners, and this selection depends on personal factors, such as motives and dimensions of personality traits. Therefore, this study investigates relation between of dimensions of Personality traits on selecting the specialty for Medical Students of Mashhad University of Medical SciencesMethods: This cros...

BACKGROUND Social and spatial factors are an important part of individual and community health. The objectives were to identify food establishment sub-types and evaluate prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and recommended fruit and vegetable consumption in relation to these sub-types in the Washington DC metropolitan area. METHODS A cross-sectional study design was used. A measure of retail food...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the dynamics of the food outlet distributions associated with local contextual factors in the U.S. This study examines the changes in food stores/services at the 5-digit Zip Code Tabulated Area (ZCTA5) level in the U.S., and assesses contextual factors associated with the changes. METHODS Data from 27,878 ZCTA5s in the contiguous United States without an extre...

BACKGROUND Patient-provider relationships in primary care are characterized by greater continuity and depth than in non-primary care specialties. We hypothesized that relationship styles of medical students based on attachment theory are associated with specialty choice factors and that such factors will mediate the association between relationship style and ultimately matching in a primary car...

E-commerce websites are important to implement in small business processes. To facilitate the transaction process, this research was carried out so that process between sellers and buyers became more effective efficient. The purpose of is attract consumers with an attractive user-friendly website buy products from KawanKita bicycle shop it has impact on increasing sales, analytical method appli...