This study examines how the consumption of fruits and vegetables is affected by home cooking habits and shopping patterns, including distance to patronized stores and frequency of shopping, in two low-income predominantly African American urban neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana. In-person interviews were conducted in 2013 with 901 adult residents who identified themselves as the primary h...

The present study is an effort to investigate the impact of both convenience and social interaction on customer satisfaction and the mediating role of customer experience. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data (n1⁄4840) using systematic sampling from department store shoppers of age 18 years and above in India. Multivariate data analysis techniques like Exploratory Factor Analysis...

Convenience stores with refrigerated display cases are ubiquitous in much of the developed world. For such buildings it is common to utilize multiple rooftop units (RTU) to serve the retail area and multiple coolers or freezers to provide cooling for merchandise. The overall objective of this paper is to develop and assess an integrated control approach for typical convenience store application...

Although efforts are underway to examine marketing that targets the youth and families in the retail food store environment, few studies have specifically focused on stores that families identify as their primary sites for food shopping. Between November 2011 and April 2012, we examined the frequency and types of marketing techniques of 114 packaged and nonpackaged items in 24 food stores that ...

To enhance children's health, the promotion of nutrition literacy in school is vital as it helps prevent development health conditions and diseases maintain healthy lifestyles. Taiwan features top highest ratio convenience stores per population density. Convenience stores, an increasingly popular dining place, were linked to eating behavior body weight issues children. An eight-week classroom-b...

Due to the importance of Physical Distribution Service Quality (PDSQ) in logisticsystems, the purpose of this paper is to design a practical scale for measuring theconstruct through the perspectives of Iranian convenience store retailers. A mixedmethodapproach was employed for the study; in- depth interviews were first carriedout with 16 Iranian experienced retailers who actively had worked in ...

Approved: Date: ________________________________________________ ___________________ ________________________________________________ ___________________ ________________________________________________ ___________________ ii ii DEDICATION To my parents and my wife Jun iii iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor Dr. Nilanjan Sarkar. This resea...