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 ...

Recent studies of convenience store crime have focused on robberies, but gasoline thefts are a troublesome and often overlooked public policy problem that drain valuable police resources. An analysis of calls for service from 38 convenience stores in Austin, TX reveals that gasoline drive-qffs account for 48% of all convenience store calls. This paper ties the environmental characteristics and ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether increasing state cigarette taxes and/or enacting stronger smoke-free air (SFA) policies have negative impact on convenience store density in a state, a proxy that is determined by store openings and closings, which reflects store profits. METHODS State-level business count estimates for convenience stores for 50 states and District of Columbia from 1997 to 20...

This study develops a framework of the core competency of convenience store operation and explores the constructs of it. 7 Eleven and Circle K, two typical convenience stores in Hong Kong, are used as the empirically studied targets. The objectives of this study are 1) to identify the constructs of core competences of convenience store operations from marketing, logistics and supply chain manag...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of neighbourhood level socioeconomic status (SES) and convenience store concentration on individual level smoking, after consideration of individual level characteristics. DESIGN Individual sociodemographic characteristics and smoking were obtained from five cross sectional surveys (1979-1990). Participants' addresses were geocoded and linked with census data ...