General Store Research Articles

Implementing Big Data Analytics in Business Management

The E-Commerce industry is facing a big challenge of handling huge amounts of data and profiting from it by analysing the data. This is caused by the Information Revolution. Big Data Analytics (BDA) are techniques used in order to manage and study this pile of data, which comprises of text messages, social media comments etc. In addition to this, Big Data Analytics can be used in the e-commerce sector to get increased revenues and draw in more customers. This project focuses on analysing and implementing these functionalities of BDA in e-commerce for the benefit of both, the seller and the consumer. E-commerce vendors as well as other enterprises such are general stores, malls etc use BDA techniques to get the competitive advantage by understanding consumer behavioural patterns. These patterns are then studies and used to achieve consumer loyalty and thus getting higher revenues through their businesses. Plus, the recommendation systems that are obtained through big data analytics help the customers shop better due to a personalized and tailor-made searching experience. A business can experience tremendous growth if the customers and the customer reviews/patterns of the business are studied properly. The knowledge gained from this can be put to tackle the negatives about the business. Our project is based into two modules, Customer Segmentation and Sentimental Analysis. The project studies customers using the customer segmentation module. In Customer Segmentation, K-Means Algorithm is used to make clusters of customers based on their age, spending patterns etc. The second module is Sentimental Analysis which focuses on divide the positive reviews with the negative reviews. The business can then work upon tackling the negatives that the consumer thinks the business has.

Measurement of Consumer's Perception of Service Quality in Organized Retail Using Servqual Instrument

Retail sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world today. India is seeing a growth of about 15-25 percent per annum in its retail business. The government is also looking forward to open up foreign direct investment in the Indian retail industry. The paradigm shift in Indian retail industry can be accounted to many factors; the growth of Indian economy, the change in consumer's attitude, the increase in per capita income and overall household income, and the influence of western culture, being a few of them. These factors have led to a major change in the buying habits and purchasing behavior of the Indian consumers and thus the retail industry has become one of the key industries to look forward to in the coming years. Many corporates are looking forward to enter the organized retail segment, seeing the enormous growth potential there. But despite the big players entering the retail sector, and the boom in retail industry, organized retailing in India can be still said to be in a very nascent state. People still do not find it very convenient to go to a mall to shop for their daily needs and the local general store or kirana shop is preferred for daily shopping. This paper tries to analyze the service quality gap between the expected and delivered service of the organized retail stores in Lucknow. The aim of this paper is to find out whether the organized retail stores are actually performing according to customers expectations or are there any gaps between the expected and perceived service quality. This assessment of difference between expected and perceived service quality would be done with the help of the SER VQUAL instrument.

Changes in Food Purchasing Practices of French Households During the First COVID-19 Lockdown and Associated Individual and Environmental Factors.

BackgroundTo limit the spread of COVID-19, a strict lockdown was imposed in France between March and May 2020. Mobility limitations and closure of non-essential public places (restaurants, open-air markets, etc.) affected peoples' food environment (FE) and thus their food purchasing practices (FPPs). This study aimed to explore changes in FPPs of French households during lockdown and associations with individual and environmental factors.MethodsIn April of 2020 households from the Mont'Panier cross-sectional study (n = 306), a quota sampling survey conducted in the south of France, were asked to complete an online questionnaire about their FPPs during lockdown and related factors, including perceived FE (distance to closest general food store, perception of increased food prices, etc.). Objective FE (presence, number, proximity, and density of food outlets) was assessed around participant's home using a geographical information system. Multiple correspondence analysis based on changes in frequency of use and quantity of food purchased by food outlet, followed by a hierarchical cluster analysis, resulted in the identification of clusters. Logistic regression models were performed to assess associations between identified clusters and household's sociodemographic characteristics, perceived, and objective FE.ResultsFive clusters were identified. Cluster “Supermarket” (38% of the total sample), in which households reduced frequency of trips, but increased quantity bought in supermarkets during lockdown, was associated with lower incomes and the perception of increased food prices. Cluster “E-supermarket” (12%), in which households increased online food shopping with pickup at supermarket, was associated with higher incomes. Cluster “Diversified” (22%), made up of households who reduced frequency of trips to diverse food outlet types, was associated with the perception of increased food prices. Cluster “Organic Food Store” (20%), in which households did not change frequency of trips, nor quantity purchased in organic food stores, was associated with being older (35–50 y vs. <35 y). Finally, cluster “Producer” (8%), which includes households who regularly purchased food from producers, but mostly reduced these purchases during lockdown, was associated with the presence of an organic food store within a 1-km walking distance around home.ConclusionThis study highlighted diverse changes in FPPs during lockdown and overall more significant associations with perceived than with objective FE indicators.

An Investigation of Influential Users in the Promotion and Marketing of Heated Tobacco Products on Instagram: A Social Network Analysis.

While an increasing body of the literature has documented the exposure to emerging tobacco products including heated tobacco products (HTPs) on social media, few studies have investigated the various stakeholders involved in the generation of promotional tobacco content. This study constructed a social network of Instagram users who posted IQOS content, a leading HTP brand, between 1 January and 5 April 2021 and identified users who positioned near the center of the network. We identified 4526 unique Instagram users who had created 19,951 IQOS-related posts during the study period. Nearly half of the users (42.1%) were business accounts authorized by Instagram, among which 59.0% belonged to Personal Goods and General Merchandise Stores and 18.1% belonged to Creators and Celebrities. For users with higher in-degree, out-degree, betweenness, and closeness centrality in the network, the majority of them were accounts directly associated with IQOS (e.g., containing “iqos” in username) or related to tobacco business as self-identified in the bio. Our findings further refine the social media marketing presence of tobacco products and suggest that the current self-regulatory efforts led by social media platforms are far from enough.

Technical field measurements of muscular workload during stocking activities in supermarkets: cross-sectional study

Multiple studies have reported high prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among supermarket workers. Technical field measurements can provide important knowledge about ergonomic risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders in the physical working environment, but these measurements are lacking in the supermarket sector. Therefore, using wearable electromyography and synchronous video recording in 75 supermarket workers, this cross-sectional study measured muscular workload during stocking activities in six different types of general store departments and during the thirteen most common work tasks across five different supermarket chains. Our results showed that muscular workload varies, especially for the low-back muscles, across (1) supermarket chains, (2) departments, and (3) specific stocking activities. Highest workloads of the low-back and neck/shoulders were seen in the fruit and vegetables department and during heavy, two-handed lifts of parcels (especially without using technical aids). In conclusion, physical work demands during supermarket stocking activities differ between chains, departments, and work tasks. These results can be used by company representatives and work environment professionals to specifically address and organize the stocking procedures to reduce the muscular workload during supermarket stocking.

Between Two “Consumer Revolutions”: Groceries and Other Foodstuff Purchases at Lower Canadian Country Stores, 1809–67

An analysis of the account books of five different Lower Canadian country general stores between 1809 and 1867 shows that ordinary households had access to, and purchased, an increasingly wide range of groceries and other foodstuffs over the period. As in Upper Canada, grocery purchases were “routine – part of many families’ culture,” and some commodities may even have been mass consumed. Foodstuffs supplied by global trade networks coexisted with products of domestic manufactures. Foodstuffs consumption also displayed characteristics associated with the “consumer revolution” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as others usually deemed to have been part of the “mass consumption societies” of the twentieth century.

Impact of social media on buying behavior: A study

This paper aims to study the impact of social media on customers’ online purchasing behaviour. Companies use social media marketing to reach their anticipated client base in today's digital world. Even general stores increasingly rely on social media to meet their marketing and branding for selling to their consumers. Social media in today's world has opened up objectives for global organizations to engage with customers through online social interactions. During this study, a sample of 200 respondents from NIT and University Campus, Kurukshetra, was taken to examine social media's impact on consumer purchasing behaviour. The questionnaire focused on the qualities and habits of social media platforms influencing purchasing decisions. The respondents were from three groups, i.e. Students, Teaching and Non-Teaching. The findings suggested that social media use has a positive impact and affects consumer buying behaviour.

How can the ‘big 4’ UK supermarkets (i.e. Morrisons, Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s) effectively compete with discount supermarkets (e.g. Lidl, Aldi)

States and general wellbeing authorities are encouraging the general population to eat more products of the soil to add to a solid eating routine. In any case, there is worry that an absence of powerful contest among store retailers has brought about swelled costs for these items which are stopping purchasers from eating a greater amount of these quality food varieties. We explore this by inspecting the nature and degree of cost contest for new products of the soil among UK store retailers, drawing on a board of week-by-week retail and comparing discount market costs north of a seven-year time frame. We find that the degree of general store rivalry fluctuates across the items, being very extraordinary on some yet a lot more fragile on others, where the retailers don't completely answer each other's costs and where the degree of their serious connection changes essentially with one another.

Water Under The Bridge

What is the purpose of defending yourself in a fight? To what ends should you go to stop getting bullied? In this work of ethical fiction, a pre-teen Rusty is sent to the general store on his bike to buy alcohol for Walt, the local drunk, in exchange for ice-cream. While at the store Rusty is attacked by two older boys trying to steal his bike. He holds onto his bike, but is badly beaten in the exchange. Later that day, Rusty gets a metal pipe and tells his friend Gene to meet him that night. They meet and Rusty tells Gene his plan, to toss the pipe into the bushes, distract the boys who beat him up, and get in a quick punch before running away. Gene gets scared and leaves, just as Bill, one of the boys that beat him up, sees him. In a panic, Rusty swings the pipe, hitting Bill. Rusty goes into a rage and continues hitting Bill. The next day Bill is in the hospital, and the police are at Rusty’s doorstep with questions.

Fatal Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Case of Zinc Phosphide Poisoning: A Case Report

Rodenticide is the term given for the compounds that are used in the killing of rats. The commonest compounds that are available as rodenticides are Aluminum phosphide, Zinc Phosphide, Yellow Phosphorus and Coumarins. Due to their easy availability in the general stores, these also have been used as a source of inflicting self-harm by the patients in order to commit suicide. Most of the patients escape the poisonous side effects with a mild course, but some cases progress to a state of Acute liver failure or fulminant liver failure. Due to the broad range of symptoms that can occur with the compounds, it is important to discuss the course of progression of symptoms from mild to severe in order to understand the treatment protocols to treat the patient appropriately. Some patients progress to such a severe form of symptoms that there is an urgent indication of liver transplantation. Here we report a case of rodenticide poisoning in a young female which started off with a mild course and ultimately progressed to fulminant liver failure leading to a fatal outcome.

Assessment of contamination of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in rice samples collected from Songkhla province, Thailand

Study on assessment of contamination of natural and artificial radionuclides in agricultural products samples are very important to all human being as a consumer. In the present study, we have measured and evaluated the specific activities of natural (40K, 226Ra and 232Th) and anthropogenic (137Cs) radionuclide in rice samples. The 30 rice samples were collected from general and department stores at Songkhla province in the south of Thailand. The high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector and gamma-ray spectrometry analysis system which was set-up in advanced laboratory in Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (public Organization) or TINT were employed to perform all of measurements and analysis for this study. The frequency distribution of specific activities of 40K, 226Ra, 232Th and 137Cs for this study were also studied and found to be asymmetrical distribution with the skewness of 1.29, 1.43, 2.32 and 0.82, respectively. For this reason, the median values of specific activities of 40K, 226Ra and 232Th which were 620.04 ± 44.30, 3.73 ±0.54 and 2.44 ±0.54 Bq/kg respectively, should be selected and also used to calculate some related radiological hazard indices in this study. Furthermore, the excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR) would be also evaluated and presented. Moreover, the results of present study were taken to compare with some data and studies in Thailand and global measurement and calculations. It was found that the outcomes satisfied the standards of UNSCEAR and IAEA.

Clinical Pharmacist role in a Medical Assistance Team during novel coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine.

To the Editor, Quarantine to control infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19 has long been utilised by Australia, and involves restricting the movement of individuals or groups presumed to have been exposed to the home or a designated facility.1, 2 We describe a clinical pharmacist role servicing quarantined passengers on two separate occasions – involving an international cruise ship, and an international flight, respectively – where approximately 200 returned travellers on each occasion completed 14 days mandatory quarantine on Rottnest Island, 20 km offshore from Fremantle port. Rottnest Island has roughly 330 permanent residents, however it can accommodate 15 000 people in peak tourist periods.3 The island has basic medical services: a Nursing Post with two nurses, and a General Store with a Schedule 2 Poisons Permit and a limited range of medications. The Western Australian Medical Assistance Team (WAMAT) is a multidisciplinary health support team sent to disaster sites at short notice.4 WAMAT was deployed to Rottnest Island to provide medical management of passengers for the two quarantine periods. Tourists were evacuated and quarantine zones were established. WAMAT usually comprises medical doctors, registered nurses, paramedics and logisticians, and pharmacists are not routinely included. For the first quarantine period involving elderly cruise ship passengers, a pharmacist was requested to assist with the anticipated high medication burden. After this successful deployment, WAMAT also requested the pharmacist for the subsequent quarantine. Quarantined passengers completed health questionnaires on arrival. Medication resupplies used the Commonwealth ‘special authority for emergency supply of Schedule 4 medicines during COVID-19’ and were authorised by the pharmacist. New prescriptions were handwritten by the WAMAT doctor, screened by the pharmacist and emailed to Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH), a quaternary hospital with governance for the Nursing Post, for dispensing. Medications were supplied in sealed boxes via the passenger ferry. WAMAT staff provided daily medical rounds, including assessment of passengers in their quarantine accommodation for COVID-19 symptoms. Several important pharmacist roles have been identified during the prevention, preparedness and response phases of disasters;5 however, to our knowledge there is no description in the literature of the pharmacist contribution to patient management during quarantine periods for a pandemic. The request for pharmacist inclusion in the WAMAT team during the second quarantine deployment is recognition of the unique skills they provide, particularly where access to standard medical care is limited. The authors have no conflicts of interests to declare.

Riding to Learn, Learning to Ride: Early School-busing in Connecticut, 1900–1945

Riding to Learn, Learning to Ride: Early School-busing in Connecticut, 1900–1945

OPTIMIZING THE GENERAL STORE AT HOTEL 88 EMBONG KENONGO DI SURABAYA

This study describes the optimization of the general store by changing the habits of employees at Hotel 88 Embong Kenongo Surabaya. With the VHP system in the hotel, employees should comply with hotel procedures by using the VHP system if there is a demand for goods in their respective departments in the general store. The purpose of this study was to determine the final results of the inventory carried out at the end of the month by the storekeeper the same as the VHP system at Hotel 88 Embong Kenongo in order to facilitate the work carried out by the storekeeper. The results of this study are descriptive explanations of Store Requirements obtained from the VHP system in the form of hardcopy.

International expert consensus on electronic nicotine delivery systems and heated tobacco products: a Delphi survey

ObjectivesTo provide a consensus from a panel of international experts about electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and heated tobacco products (HTP).DesignCross-sectional survey.MethodsA Delphi survey was conducted among international experts in...

Smells in Sustainable Environments: The Scented Silk Road to Spending.

Humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what earth can regenerate in that year, creating an urgent need for more sustainable behavior. Here, the focus is on a particular factor that so far has been overlooked in facilitating sustainable behavior, namely smell. The two-fold aim of this study was (i) to investigate whether ambient scent could enhance customers' subjective experience and spending behavior in a sustainable environment, and (ii) to elucidate the affective and cognitive pathways from scent to spending. To test this, a double-blind field experiment was designed where customers of a second-hand clothing store (N = 57) could face one of three conditions: fresh linen scent (pleasant and semantically priming “clean clothing” increasing the products' value), vanilla sandalwood scent (pleasant control odor), or regular store odor (odorless control). Buttressed by prior research, the fresh linen scent was expected to cause the strongest increase in spending behavior due to its positive semantic association with the product (i.e., clean clothing). The results indeed showed that fresh linen scent almost doubled consumer spending vs. the odorless control and the pleasant control odor. Other factors potentially affecting consumer behavior (e.g., weekday, weather, odor awareness) were uncorrelated. Whereas a conceptually-driven mediation analysis showed that only fresh linen scent increased mood and evaluations of the store, staff, and products, these variables did not mediate the relation between scent and spending. An explorative structural equation model suggested cognitive priming to be mainly responsible for increasing consumers' spending in the fresh linen condition by enhancing the general store evaluation. Further support is needed to corroborate the indirect findings that specific scents can follow a “cold” semantic road and a “hot” affective road to spending. At minimum, consumers are no “zombies” that empty their pockets in the presence of whatever odor; the smell needs to have a meaningful link to the (sustainable) context at hand to influence consumer behavior.

Peran General Store Section dalam Mendukung Mutu Pelayanan Usaha Hotel

General Store is one of the important sections in Hotels that are included in the accounting Deparment. A general store is a storage place for all operational items of the hotel. Each hotel makes its own efforts to keep the inventory of the hotel which will become the guest necessities. This research aims to know what efforts are made to maintain the quality of hotel operational goods through the role of the general store section at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. Is in accordance with the standard or does not give special treatment to the operational goods (ignored). The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method by collecting data through interviews. Interviews were conducted with general store staff, cost control staff, and trainees of food beverages at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. The results of the research show that The Hotel Phoenix Yogyakarta made positive efforts that can reduce damage to goods stored in the general store and always ensure the goods that come to the guests are in good condition so that guests will feel satisfied.

Phonological store and speechreading performance of Chinese students with hearing impairment

ABSTRACT This study presents three experiments to examine the role of the phonological store component of working memory in the speechreading performance of students with hearing impairment (HI) in China. In Experiment 1, 86 high school students with HI completed an immediate serial recall task with four lists of monosyllabic words that differed in phonological and visual similarities. In Experiment 2 and Experiment 3, 40 participants divided into high or low phonological store capacity (PS) and 40 participants divided into high or low visual phonological story capacity (VPS) completed a speechreading test at the word, phrase and sentence levels. Results revealed that (1) immediate serial recall showed effects of phonological and visual similarity and their interaction; (2) there was no significant effect of phonological store capacities on speechreading; and (3) there was a significant effect of visual phonological store capacities on accuracy but not speed of speechreading. These findings point to a general phonological store system for visual orthographic coding and phonological coding that students with HI engage in speechreading in Chinese. It provides evidence for the contention that the visual-based coding has a more direct impact on speechreading performance of Chinese students with HI than the speech-based coding.

Assessment of facility availability and public adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures at different settings in Galle district, Sri Lanka

Introduction and Objectives&#x0D; COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by newly discovered coronavirus. Preventive measures such as Hand hygiene, maintaining social distance, and using personal protective equipment, are the main strategies for limiting the spread of disease. The main objective of this study is to assess facility availability and adherence to those preventive measures in Galle district, Sri Lanka.&#x0D; Methods&#x0D; A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. Study had 3 parts, 1) observation for facility availability, 2) observation and 3) questionnaire for adherence. Direct, structured observation has been conducted. Ten divisional secretarial areas selected randomly, each area supermarket, bank, bus stand, dress point, general goods store selected (total 50) randomly for observation. Quota sampling used for select individuals to observation and questionnaire. &#x0D; Result&#x0D; Data collected from 50 places and 384 people. Majority of places had a handwashing facility (82%) clean (97.5%) running water (74%) soap (92.6%) and posters requesting to wear masks (72%). Facilities enhance social distance, poster on correct hand washing technique not displayed (86%) in most of the places. Majority of the study population adhered to hand washing (69.27%) and wore face masks (90.36%), Yet, the majority didn’t maintain the social distance (63.02%). Self-declared adherence was good (53.91%) in the majority of the study population.&#x0D; Discussion and Conclusions&#x0D; It is necessary to give attention to display posters on handwashing, correct technique of handwashing, and social distancing in crowded places. Poorest adherence revealed to maintain social distancing.

Role of Retail Price Strategy in Influencing Customer Purchase Intention

Price sensitivity was consistently a matter of worry for retailers when planning pricing strategies. The expectant reaction towards changing price is high felt among the middleclass purchasers and impact more on their purchasing decisions in India. This research plans to decide, regardless of whether the estimating special technique for the key-esteem classification, acquires a huge change in the offer of key-esteem things or not. The examination is decisive and applied the quantitative method to approve the proposed speculation. An organized poll comprising 21 inquiries was utilized to gather information through an online review. The Snowball inspecting strategy was utilized to gather information from respondents, including youthful workers, homemakers, and entrepreneurs, and gathered reactions towards the incessant value limits offered by driving hypermarkets chains and general stores in the country. The straight relapse is directed utilizing SPSS programming. Discoveries of the exploration presumed that as the Indian center section is exceptionally evaluated touchy, henceforth tremendous value limits impel brand agitating among them and even impact the pre-purchasing choice for procurement. The significant limitations of the examination were that it centered uniquely around contemplating the effect of cost special proposals on deals which is exceptionally relevant and restricted to item classes, wherein there are different factors additionally which can altogether affect deals. We have decided the effect of one develop over another under the shadow of key-esteem classifications, while further exploration can check the effect separately or on different classifications too. The exploration is absolutely experimental and directed interestingly by the analyst to imply the significance of value advancement procedure in consonance to deals. The newly gathered essential information utilized for approval.