Food Waste and Food Retail Density

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the relationship between food retail density and municipal solid waste. We test for correlations between the volume of solid waste and the number of food-at-home retailers (e.g., grocery stores) and food-away-from-home retailers (e.g., restaurants) at the county level in the state of Mississippi over 2007–2012. Since food scraps comprise the largest share of post-recycling municipal solid waste in the United States, we control for the overall level of economic activity to account for other sources of solid waste, as well as demographic factors, county, and time effects. We find that increases in food-at-home retailer density are negatively correlated with solid waste volume. Conversely, we find that increases in the number of food-away-from-home retailers lead to more waste. While we do not explicitly investigate the mechanisms, we discuss possible avenues such as increased food access in the case of food at home, and increased portion sizes and substitutability in the case of food away from home.     

Consistency and Recovery in Retail Supply Chains

Practitioners and researchers describe inventory service level with metrics that communicate the likelihood of demand fulfillment without considering the ongoing capabilities of the supplier, for example, in‐stock and fill rate. We develop a method for measuring inventory service level that incorporates such supplier capabilities, namely consistency (the ability of a supplier to fulfill orders repeatedly) and recovery (the ability of a supplier to fulfill orders after a lapse in service). Using data from two retail supply chains, we illustrate our approach. To demonstrate the impact of consistency and recovery on supply chain performance, we model a retailer purchasing from competing suppliers with different levels of consistency and recovery. The model incorporates the retailer's uncertainty about demand and the retailer's uncertainty about its suppliers' service levels. We characterize how the retailer's orders and profitability change with a supplier's delivery performance through numerical experiments calibrated with field data. We find notable differences in market share across suppliers with similar traditional inventory service level metrics but differences in consistency and recovery. Further, we observe that a retailer can increase its profitability by determining orders via consistency and recovery in lieu of common metrics like in‐stock. Given the influence of consistency and recovery on supply chain outcomes, we discuss implications for practice and future research.     

Retail Micro-Marketing Strategies and Competition

The goal of this paper is to open the debate about the effect of customer specific retail marketing on competition. Segmentation and targeting based on loyalty card information affects horizontal and vertical relationships. Few retailers can take advantage of the power connected to the ownership of customer information. Consumers benefit from a more targeted approach to value creation but the distribution of such value varies widely, as a consequence of micro-targeting. A second goal is to test a new way of conducting joint research with practitioners. An online community was set up for the discussion of micro-marketing related issues. Online, the authors have been able to test the hypothesis and deliver the survey questionnaire to participating retailers who, in turn, can access results through the community website: www.partnership4loyalty.com.     

国外零售业经营战略的四大转变

在消费市场变化和流通信息化的推动下，国外零售业在经营管理战略上出现了新的转变和调整，主要体现在从顾客满足战略向顾客忠诚战略转变、从零售业向电子零售业转变、从胜负关系战略向双赢战略转变、从重视经验和感性管理向科学和定量管理转变。     

Positioning Strategies of Retail Firms in Ghana

This paper assesses how retail firms in Ghana pursue positioning activities. Overt observations, face-to-face interviews with staff, managers and mall intercept methods provide an insight into the positioning strategies of firms in the retail sector. We adopt an empirically based and generic consumer-derived typology of positioning strategies to obtain the results. The findings revealed that the dominant strategies are “service,” “value for money,” “attractiveness,” “reliability,” “top of the range,” selectivity, and “brand name.” The emphasis placed on each of these positioning strategies varies from firm to firm.     

郑州市零售业态的优化策略

近几年,郑州市零售业发展迅速,但对业态演变的规律及结构认识不足,导致新兴业态的零售企业竞争优势不明显,应该把业态创新放在战略高度,根据不同地区经济发展水平、消费群体需求层次和消费习惯,适时发展新型零售业态,提高业态应变能力。     

The Quality Dimensions of Internet Retail Food Purchasing

ABSTRACT

This exploratory study examines relevant factors affecting consumers' evaluation of product and service quality in the context of Internet retail food purchasing. A total of 489 anecdotes, written by online consumers based on their own shopping experience, were collected and content analyzed. In turn, 18 quality dimensions and 58 sub-attributes were identified. The asymmetric effect of positive and negative attribute-level performances on consumer dis/satisfaction was discussed. The impact of two delivery strategies on consumers' perceived quality was also examined. Finally, managerial implications and recommendations were provided in order to pave the way for possible improvement of the quality of Internet retail food purchasing and, in turn, consumer satisfaction.     

Evidence from Retail Food Markets That Consumers Are Confused by Natural and Organic Food Labels

Journal of Consumer Policy - In the USA, food producers can label their products as organic only if they are certified by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as...     

Retail Integration Strategies in the EU: Scandinavian Grocery Retailing

Until recently, restructuring activity in the EU retail industry has primarily been domestically oriented and focused upon growth opportunities in the retailers' home market. Alongside the on-going harmonization and integration of European markets, grocery retailers have become increasingly interested in cross-border integration activity. Although a salient feature of Scandinavian grocery retailing, this (r)evolution of the industry has attracted only minor attention in academic literature. This paper examines the motives and strategies underlying the intensified integration activity of Scandinavian grocery retailers in general and their integration across national as well as industry boundaries, in particular. The analysis of recent integration events displays a fairly balanced distribution between proactive and reactive motives, albeit the former motive tends to dominate in the case of grocery retailers' integration activity across industry borderlines. Above all, the proactive motive has been apparent in many of the recent partnerships established laterally between Scandinavian grocery retailers and other companies.     

Postservice Recovery Customer Satisfaction in Indian Retail Banking: Scale Development and Validation

The construct of postservice customer satisfaction with respect to Indian retail banking has been studied. Furthermore, the development and validation of the postservice recovery customer satisfaction scale in Indian retail banking is detailed. The scale development process was carried out over three stages (item generation, scale purification, scale validation) and comprised of conducting depth interviews and focus groups for item generation and three separate phases of data collection, involving a total of 851 individual respondents. The data provide evidence for face, content, discriminant and convergent validity, dimensionality, reliability, and generalizability of the customer satisfaction scale in Indian retail banking.     

零售业的服务失误归因及服务补救策略

零售企业是一个与顾客紧密联系的服务型企业,失误的频次相对较高,容易流失顾客,形成"不良口碑"。寻找服务失误的原因以及实施补救措施,降低顾客流失,减弱"不良口碑"成为零售企业所追求的目标。本文根据零售企业的运营模式将服务失误的原因进行了分类,从企业、顾客和供应商三个方面挖掘服务失误的原因并给出了相应的服务对策。     

Opening Local Retail Food Stores: A Real-Options Approach

A real-options approach was used, incorporating uncertainty and irreversibility of investments, to study the number of stores entering the Swedish retail food market during the period 1994–2002. It was found that uncertainty affected the entry-decision. Entry was less frequent in highly concentrated local retail food-markets characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, whereas higher profit opportunities seem to have increased the probability of entry.     

餐饮产品定价策略与实施

餐饮产品定价是广大消费者和商家普遍关注的问题,其价格的高低不仅关系到顾客的消费、餐饮企业的产品销售,而且会对企业内外部之间的竞争产生重大影响.因此,餐饮企业在制定和调整产品价格时,必须经过慎重考虑,应结合餐饮市场价格、原料成本、人力成本、行业竞争、营销策略等情况,科学合理地制定餐饮产品价格.     

长三角零售业发展的现状、问题与对策

长三角地区已成为我国经济发展水平最高、综合经济实力最强和零售业最为发达的地区之一。文章对长三角地区的零售业现状和发展趋势作了较为系统的分析。并对长三角地区零售业发展中存在的问题和解决的办法提出了建议。     

绿色食品的特征和营销战略

一、绿色食品的相关概念绿色食品是遵循可持续发展的原则,按照绿色食品标准生产,经专门机构认定,许可使用绿色食品商标标志的安全、优质食品。绿色食品并非指“绿颜色”的食品,而是对无污染食品的一种形象表述。绿色象征生命和活力。自然资源和生态环境是食品生产的基本条件,为     

国际零售业发展趋势及我国零售业发展的对策

2004年底,我国取消了对外商投资商业企业在地域、股权和数量等方面的限制,中国零售业全面对外资开放。随着跨国零售集团的大举进入,我国零售企业面临严峻的挑战。所以,必须考察在经济全球化条件下世界零售业的发展趋势,从中比较分析中外零售业的竞争优势、劣势,从而采取适当的对策来提升我国零售业的国际竞争力。     

Understanding Competition across Retail Distribution Channels of Health and Wellness Food Products in India

This study aims to analyze the retail channel structure and level of competition across retailers in distributing health and wellness food products in India. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR), analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) have been used to analyze the data. It is evident from the analysis that level of competition varies across the retail channels of health and wellness food products and has been increasing over the years. The study provides valuable insights to the companies involved in producing and marketing of health and wellness food products for an effective channel distribution strategy.     

城市新居民区零售商业:发展思路和经营策略

近年来 ,随着我国城市化进程的加快 ,大量的新居民区如雨后春笋般涌现出来 ,但与之配套的新居民区零售商业的发展却不尽如人意。本文在初步分析其客观必然性的基础上 ,重点对我国城市新居民区零售商业的发展思路和经营策略进行了阐述     

On the Implications of Reporting Retail Food Prices over Extended Periods

This paper reports the results of economic experiments designed to determine the implications of a changed information flow to sellers in spatial markets. The experimental design used duopoly posted-price markets. Apparently, price and firm profit levels increase as a result of instituting a price reporting system when consumers are fully informed. In light of these findings, it appears that a retail food price reporting system may have adverse impacts on consumers, especially when instituted for longer time periods.