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Retail Store (retail + store)
Selected AbstractsRetail Store Lighting for Elderly Consumers: An Experimental ApproachFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 4 2007Nam-Kyu Park The study presents an investigation of the influence of the color of light on readability by figure to background value contrast, color perception, and overall room-light estimation for elderly consumers in an experimental setting representing a retail store. A factorial design with repeated measures was used to identify the impact of three independent variables: (a) lamp color temperatures, (b) lamp color-rendering properties, and (c) age of the participants. The results show that older adults perceived the higher color temperature light source as less cool than did younger adults. Older adults rated their level of comfort and preference higher than the younger participants under all lighting conditions. Regarding readability, higher color-rendering light sources provide better readability, and older adults have more difficulty with warmer lighting when value contrasts were reduced. Implications from this study can be applied to retail lighting techniques to attract elderly consumers. [source] A Profile of Financially At-Risk College StudentsJOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2004ANGELA C. LYONS Using a random sample of college students, this study identifies the factors that significantly affect the probability a college student is financially at risk for mismanaging/misusing credit. Financially at-risk students are more likely to be financially independent, to receive need-based financial aid, to hold $1000 or more in other debt, and to have acquired their credit card(s) by mail, at a retail store, and/or at a campus table. Students having difficulty making credit card payments are also more likely to be female, black, and/or Hispanic. Campus administrators and financial professionals can use this information to better allocate their resources and develop materials that specifically target those students who need them most. [source] Salesperson characteristics affecting consumer complaint responsesJOURNAL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, Issue 2 2001Stephen W. Clopton Abstract The important relationship between consumer complaint behaviour and brand and store loyalty is well established. The range of factors that favourably influence the outcomes of complaining have received relatively less research attention. Therefore, this study tests the effects of two salesperson source characteristics: willingness to listen and product/store knowledge, on consumer complaint-related perceptions and intentions in a retail setting. Mall shoppers participated in a consumer complaint experiment to test the hypothesised effects. The results indicate that both characteristics affect customer complaint responses, as well as consumer perceptions of the salesperson and the retail store. The findings of the study demonstrate that salesperson characteristics are important influences on positive or negative consumer complaint responses. Copyright © 2001 Henry Stewart Publications. [source] Chitosan Protects Cooked Ground Beef and Turkey Against Clostridium perfringens Spores During ChillingJOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE, Issue 6 2006Vijay K. Juneja ABSTRACT:, We investigated the inhibition of Clostridium perfringens spore germination and outgrowth by the biopolymer chitosan during abusive chilling of cooked ground beef (25% fat) and turkey (7% fat) obtained from a retail store. Chitosan was mixed into the thawed beef or turkey at concentrations of 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0%, or 3.0% (w/w) along with a heat-activated 3-strain spore cocktail to obtain a final spore concentration of 2 to 3 log10 CFU/g. Samples (5 g) of the ground beef or turkey mixtures were then vacuum-packaged and cooked to 60 °C in 1 h in a temperature-controlled water bath. Thereafter, the products were cooled from 54.4 to 7.2 °C in 12, 15, 18, or 21 h, resulting in 4.21, 4.51, 5.03, and 4.70 log10 CFU/g increases, respectively, in C. perfringens populations in the ground beef control samples without chitosan. The corresponding increases for ground turkey were 5.27, 4.52, 5.11, and 5.38 log10 CFU/g. Addition of chitosan to beef or turkey resulted in concentration- and time-dependent inhibition in the C. perfringens spore germination and outgrowth. At 3%, chitosan reduced by 4 to 5 log10 CFU/g C. perfringens spore germination and outgrowth (P, 0.05) during exponential cooling of the cooked beef or turkey in 12, 15, or 18 h. The reduction was significantly lower (P < 0.05) at a chilling time of 21 h, about 2 log10 CFU/g, that is, 7.56 log10 CFU/g (unsupplemented) compared with 5.59 log10 CFU/g (3% chitosan). The results suggest that incorporation of 3% chitosan into ground beef or turkey may reduce the potential risk of C. perfringens spore germination and outgrowth during abusive cooling from 54.4 to 7.2 °C in 12, 15, or 18 h. [source] Free riding in a multi-channel supply chainNAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Issue 8 2009Fernando Bernstein Abstract Free riding in a multichannel supply chain occurs when one retail channel engages in the customer service activities necessary to sell a product, while another channel benefits from those activities by making the final sale. Although free riding is, in general, considered to have a negative impact on supply chain performance, certain recent industry practices suggest an opposite view: a manufacturer may purposely induce free riding by setting up a high-cost, customer service-oriented direct store to allow consumers to experience the product, anticipating their purchase at a retail store. This article examines how the free riding phenomenon affects a manufacturer's supply chain structure decision when there are fixed plus incremental variable costs for operating the direct store. We consider factors such as the effort required to find and buy the product at a retail store after visiting the direct store, the existence of competing products in the market, and the extent of consumer need to obtain direct-store service. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009 [source] Jil Sander Boutique and Derek Lam Boutique, New York CityARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 1 2010Jayne Merkel Abstract The recession devastating retail in most places is nowhere to be found in a recently shabby area of New York's SoHo, just north of Chinatown. Among a handful of new boutiques, galleries and at least one hot new restaurant are two recently opened shops that demonstrate the emerging interconnections between fashion and architectural design. Jayne Merkel explains that Jil Sander creative director Raf Simons, who is now designing the Jil Sander line, also designed the store that houses it and, a few doors away, the much lauded new designer Derek Lam selected one of his first customers, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA, to design his first retail store. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The impact of cross-sectional data aggregation on the measurement of vertical price transmission: An experiment with German food pricesAGRIBUSINESS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel The impact of cross-sectional aggregation over individual retail stores on the estimation and testing of vertical price transmission between the wholesale and retail levels is investigated using a unique data set of individual retail prices in Germany. Systematic differences between the results of estimations using aggregated data on the one hand, and disaggregated data on the other, are discussed theoretically and confirmed empirically. The results suggest that estimation with aggregated data can generate misleading conclusions about price transmission behavior at the level of the individual units (i.e., retail stores) that underlie these aggregates. [JEL classifications: C22, L11, D40] © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 22: 505,522, 2006. [source] Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating ,McJobs' or Developing Skills?*JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 7 2006Jos Gamble abstract Much has been written on the nature of skills and the extent to which there is increased skills development or a deskilling of workers in modern workplaces. This paper broadens the debate and explores these issues in the novel context of UK- and Japanese- invested retailers' operations in China. Data derived from over two hundred interviews at twelve retail stores in six Chinese cities and questionnaires completed by almost eight hundred employees elicited contextualized accounts of interactive service workers' own perceptions of their training and skills development. It was found that these firms made a substantial contribution to skills development, fostered and enhanced both directly by company training and also through experiential workplace-based learning. It might be, however, that this constitutes an essential but ,one-off' increase in skills in transitional economies such as that of China. [source] A Note on the Geographic Interdependencies of Retail Market AreasJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 1 2002David Mushinski Central place theory describes an orderly hierarchy of places, with particular retail services developing for lower-ordered places as they reach a threshold. Yet it is likely that nearby areas could serve simultaneously as a source of demand and a source of competing supply for retail stores in a place. This paper contributes to the understanding of local economic development by modeling and estimating the geographic interdependence between a place and its neighboring areas. The simultaneous equation Tobit results suggest that such geographical interdependence exists for most retail industries, with spatial competition on the supply side being particularly important. [source] Marketing Channels and Retail Store Density in East Asia,ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 4 2005Kenji Matsui L81; M31 By measuring retail store density with regard to population, several studies have indicated that marketing channels in Asia are different from those in the USA and European countries. The present paper investigates to what extent a model similar to Flath and Nariu (1996) can empirically predict retail densities in Japan and China. The results suggest that the secular decline in the number of retail stores in Japan primarily results from the proliferation of car ownership and the expansion in the average size of a dwelling. We also demonstrate that the model accounts for the large variations in China's retail density. [source] | |||||||||||||