Retail Groups Research Articles

Consumer Food Environment Healthiness Score: Development, Validation, and Testing between Different Types of Food Retailers.

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scoring system, based on AUDITNOVA, to assess the healthiness of the consumer food environment, considering food availability, price, advertising, and placement strategies. Audited data of 650 food retailers were used to develop, validate, and test the consumer food environment healthiness score. To compose the score, the reference was the Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population. The total and subscores were standardized for a scale from 0 to 100. Construct validity was assessed using the Kruskal–Wallis Dunn tests. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were calculated to determine the consistency of the scores. The median score was 33.7 (p25 = 26.9; p75 = 42.1). The public and private specialized indoor fresh food markets showed the highest medians; otherwise, bakeries and food retailers with the predominant sale of ultra-processed foods showed the lowest. The score was able to satisfactorily classify the extreme food retailer groups by the predominant sale of fresh or minimally processed foods and the predominant sale of ultra-processed foods. The results of Cronbach’s alpha showed excellent internal consistency (α = 0.91). The score helped to provide an overall assessment of consumer food environment healthiness and was able to classify food retailer groups as healthy and unhealthy according to the degree of processing of the available foods.

Single-manufacturer and multi-retailer supply chain model with pre-payment based partial free transportation

In this paper, a supply chain model between a manufacturing firm and a group of retailers has been developed. Manufacturing firm produces simultaneously both perfect and imperfect items which are separated by screening process. Then the perfect items are transferred to the retailers’ showroom/warehouse located in different places and a part of imperfect items are repaired by rework process. Retailers receive the products from the manufacturer with paying partial pre-payment to ensure the replenishment of order. On the other hand, the manufacturer provides partial free transportation facility to the retailers due to pre-payment. The corresponding problem has been formulated mathematically as a profit maximization problem and then solved it analytically. As an illustration of this supply chain model, three numerical examples have been considered and solved. Finally, post optimality analyses have been carried out to investigate the effects of changes of different parameters on the optimal policy.

Over-the-counter sale of antibiotics - Using Net-Map to identify and segment stakeholders as the first step towards the development of smart regulation

IntroductionAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a complex public health problem requiring coordinated efforts by a multitude of public and private sector stakeholders. Over-the-counter (OTC) antibiotics sale is contributing to rising AMR. We applied NetMap, a research tool to identify, prioritize and assess relationships among stakeholders, also to identify the stakeholders that must be engaged for regulating antibiotic OTC sale for humans in India. MethodsThrough a one-day workshop, a team of expert facilitators engaged with a mixed group of stakeholders-regulators, drug manufacturers, retailers and consumers of antibiotics to identify and rank stakeholders based on their role, power/interest and influence. Stakeholders were listed and grouped as per the type of agency represented. Carrom discs were stacked against each stakeholder with the height of stack reflecting perceived power. ResultsA total of 25 stakeholders were identified from government, non-government, private/corporate, academic and research agencies and the general public. Based on the stacking exercise, a power/interest matrix was developed with six stakeholders having high power and high interest, five having high power but low interest, six having low power but high interest and eight having low power. A visual NetMap was developed to position the stakeholders as proximal, middle and distal based on their perceived influence. ConclusionsNetMap can be used with stakeholders with varying skill sets. It is a useful project initiation tool that was successfully used to prioritize stakeholders for reaching out, for targeted outreach and development of customized tools for developing innovative regulation for tackling OTC sale of antibiotics. It also pre-empted any conflict of interests.

Sistem Bonus Bisnis Multi Level Marketing Pada PT. Melia Sehat Sejahtera di Kabupaten Jember Perspektif Akad Ju’alah

One of the businesses that is growing rapidly in Indonesia today is the multi-level marketing (MLM) business. MLM is a method of marketing goods or services from a system of selling goods directly through a marketing program in the form of more than one level, where business partners get sales commissions and sales bonuses from the sale of goods or services carried out by themselves and network members in their group. In general, this thesis discusses the multi-level marketing (MLM) business at PT.Melia Sehat Sejahtera in Jember district, with problems namely (1) how is the bonus system at PT.Melia Sehat Sejahtera in Jember district, (2) how is the review of Sharia Economic Law against the bonus system at PT. Melia Sehat Sejahtera in Jember district. This study uses a field research method with a descriptive approach which is useful for providing information, facts and data regarding the network bonus system at PT.Melia Sehat Sejahtera in Jember district. Then the data was analyzed using qualitative methods to uncover events, phenomena, facts and circumstances that actually occurred in the field. From this study it can be concluded that the bonus system at PT. Melia Sehat Sejahtera in Jember district has five types of bonuses, namely: sponsor bonuses, leadership bonuses, retail bonuses, retail group bonuses and unilevel bonuses. Meanwhile, according to Sharia Economic Law, the bonus system at PT. Melia Sehat Sejahtera in Jember district isThis can be done because it is in accordance with Islamic law.

МЕХАНИЗМЫ ИНТЕГРИРОВАННОГО КОРПОРАТИВНОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ (на примере структуры «X5 Розничная группа»)

The purpose of the work is to analyze the mechanisms of corporate governance in integrated retail structures on the example of the company “X5 Retail Group”, as well as to develop proposals for improving the organization of corporate governance in the affected area. The theoretical foundations of the strategy of integrated structures are studied. Recommendations for improving the corporate governance of integrated systems in retail markets are proposed.

СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ РОЗНИЧНЫХ ТОРГОВЫХ СЕТЕЙ В РЕГИОНЕ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ КОСТРОМСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ)

The article examines the state of network retail trade carried out by federal and regional trade enterprises and its role in the economy of a particular region of Kostroma region. The role of this type of economic activity revealed in the socio-economic system. The most important feature is plurality of trading formats. The aggressive nature shown of the activities federal retail networks. It manifested in a significant growth in retail outlets of these structures. The main directions of attraction are a wide range of products, flexible pricing policy, use of modern technologies, expansion of loyalty programs, including the use of mobile app. The specific of the positioning have been determined for Magnit, X5 Retail Group and LENTA. Competitors to federal retail networks are several trading enterprises of Kostroma networks retailers. They continue to develop dynamically by opening shops not only in regional cities, but also in neighboring regions. Moreover, each of them has a certain strategy focused on a specific segment of consumers. The regional trade networks cooperation with local producers. It allows them to compete with federal retail networks. A comparative analysis of retail prices carried out for socially significant food and non-food products, which made it possible to assess the degree of attractiveness of the services of retail trade networks, federal and regional levels. The experience of the introducing modern formats of trade services for buyers has been summarised by federal and local market. The main directions of improving trade has been established by regional players.

Ecologization of retail: Russian experience

The paper analyzes the changes that have occurred in retail trade under the influence of eco-friendly trends in Russia. The paper defines the terms ecologization and ecologization of retail. There are three main directions of retail development: commodity ecologization, greening business processes and ecologization of the consumer environment. The paper presents an analysis of innovations in each of the areas of greening. The main elements of commodity greening are the introduction of eco-packaging into the product range and the introduction of eco-packages. For industrial greening, it is recommended to organize work with suppliers taking into account the need for the turnover of reusable containers and pay special attention to the management of goods with an expiring shelf life. The organization of the collection of secondary raw materials on the territory of stores is considered as the greening of the consumer environment. The paper emphasizes the importance of using eco-friendly innovations in the marketing and advertising strategies of stores. For the analysis, the practice of large Russian retailers, such as “X5 Retail Group”, “Magnit”, “Lenta”, “VkusVill” was used.

Diagnóstico de las estrategias empleadas en producción de las bodegas de aceituna en la región sur del Perú año 2020

El tema de Investigación se desarrolla en el sector olivícola, principal actividad económica de la region Tacna; la cual ha experimentado importantes fluctuaciones de producción las mismas han obedecido a aspectos internos (Bajos niveles de productividad, diversificación de productos, entre otros ) y externos (increment de producción de los países competidores a través incentivos, optimizando procesos con equipos que agilizan la producción y politicas de comercialización (Inteligencia Comercial)). El sector olivícola al conformarse como una actividad importante para la Región y observer las fluctuaciones negativas y el contexto en el cual se encuentra el sector, motiva para que se realice el mencionado trabajo de investigacion en tres etapas: Primera Etapa: Diagnóstico de las Bodegas de procesamiento de aceituna; las cuales estan inmersas en la Asociación de Productores de la Yarada y los Palos que procesan y comercializan aceituna de mesa. Segunda Etapa: En función al diagnóstico de las Bodegas y considerando las exigencias del mercado internacional se evalúa la aplicación de la producción limpia y su implicancia en el manejo de efluentes. La aplicación de la Producción Limpia se hará referencia a la metodología de la “Guía para la Implementación de la Producción más Limpia” (GP 900.200:2007) la misma que se elaborado por el Comité Técnico de Normalización de Gestión Ambiental, Sub Comité de Producción Más Limpia según R.0052-2007/INDECOPI-CRT. Publicada el 2007-06-20. Tercera Etapa: Por ultimo, se identificará una empresa representativa que este implementando la metodología de la Producción Limpia para analizar sus implicacias en diferentes ambitos económico, financiero, ambiental, etc. En tal sentido, en el presente articulo cientifico se enfocará a la primera etapa del trabajo de investigacion. En esta Primera Parte se concluye: La gestión administrative debe mantener, fortalecer y mejorar los procesos productivos en las bodegas de la Asociación de Productores y Comercializadores de Aceituna de Yarada y los Palos, es fundamental para que se garantice continuidad de una producción en función a las exigencies sanitarias, fitosanitarias, ambientales y de calidad para insertarse de manera eficiente en el comercio exterior y pueda responder a las exigencies del Mercado interno sobre todo de los importantes grupos retail del país con la finalidad de mejorar su rentabilidad y posición financiera.

Kualitas layanan dalam industri retail modern

The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic had been made a massive impact, a number of business reported have to furloughing the worker, even rid of their employee due to saving their money. Meanwhile Indonesia had a surge amount of active workers age, if the situation wouldn’t be able to subdue, the number of unemployment would increased subsequently. In a part of Tridarma of higher education, our community Service Activities was conducted in Alfa retail group. The main reason are: the company doesn’t abdicate the responsibility of lost sales forcing to cut off employee payment. Therefore, the result of this activity expected to handle the supply and demand in labor market and responding the government law on Pemendag number 55/2019 to giving a proper training to made people acquaintance in retail industry

Optimal planning and investment benefit analysis of shared energy storage for electricity retailers

With the rapid development of energy storage (ES) technology, it has gradually become a vital facility to cope with the intermittent renewable generation and reduce the users’ electricity purchase cost. However, the limited application of the ES has suffered from its high capital cost. This paper proposes an approach of optimal planning the shared energy storage based on cost-benefit analysis to minimize the electricity procurement cost of electricity retailers. First, the multi-time scale electricity purchase model is established. Then the retailers are screened and classified based on the proposed matching degree function to select the collective of retailers, which maximizes the profits of planning the shared ES. The life cycle cost model and the equivalent cycle life method are used to evaluate the benefit of investing the shared ES. The benefit distribution among the collective is conducted based on the contribution degree of each retailer. In the case study, the optimization results of the shared ES for high-matching and low-matching groups are compared in detail. The simulation results illustrate that the costs are reduced by 8.83% and 8.03% respectively for the two groups of electricity retailers by the proposed approach. Results also verify that ES can effectively reduce the cost of retailers, and high matching degree can be used as the selection criterion to obtain a greater benefit of the shared ES.

Power imbalances in French food retailing: Evidence from a production function approach to estimate market power

We analyze whether an association of firms to the dominant oligopoly of food retail groups is related to higher oligopoly market power. We apply a production function approach for the estimation of firm-level markups to a sample of 3,366 French food retailers over the period 2006–2014. The results suggest the presence of power imbalances between firms of the dominant oligopoly and fringe firms. We also detect a positive connection between markups and profitability pointing to a reduction in consumer welfare due to retailers’ oligopoly market power.

PERANCANGAN PUSAT PERBELANJAAN MODERN DENGAN KONSEP CITYWALK DI KOTA GORONTALO

Modern shopping centers are one of the phenomena that occur in an area, both in big cities and small cities in Indonesia. The existence of a shopping center impacts the development of a city. Furthermore, the shopping center means a group of retailers and their other commercial activities that are planned, developed, owned, and operated in one unit.A modern Shopping Center with the Citywalk Concept is expected to meet the shopping and recreational needs of all Gorontalo people and tourists, who visitGorontalo. The design of this modern shopping center employed the Citywalk approach. Moreover, this gualitative research was carried out by reading the phenomena that arise in several cases in parts of city, especially in the transformation of areas with new developments inside.

Analysis of Henkel and X5 Retail Group companies and their market share

Analysis of Henkel and X5 Retail Group companies and their market share

Analysis of financial and economic activities of Henkel and X5 Retail Group

Analysis of financial and economic activities of Henkel and X5 Retail Group

Problems of formation of intangible assets in trading systems on the example of X5 Retail Group

The article deals with the features of formation and evaluation of intangible assets in network retail trade, their role as a resource for the development of retail networks. The established criteria for classifying retail network assets as intangible assets and their compliance with current practice are investigated. The structure of intangible assets is analyzed using the example of X5 Retail Group. The possibilities of evaluating a portfolio of long-term lease agreements for retail space as an asset of a retail network are considered. Methodological approaches to the valuation of certain types of intangible assets, in particular their own brands, are proposed.

The Key Success Factors: A Case Study of UNIQLO

This paper aims to investigate how the UNIQLO, the global Japanese fast fashion retailing group, drives their organization towards success. UNIQLO has a good product quality by introducing Heat Tech range of cold weather underwear lines which targeted at warm weather with affordable price. Besides, UNIQLO continues to develop its product via research and development to meet the needs of their customers. UNIQLO stores particularly are distinctive and have a clear positioning in the market. In 2014, UNIQLO launched its mobile online store through the smartphone app. UNIQLO emphasizes on giving the best satisfaction to their customers. The paper presents the factors that lead to organizational success in UNIQLO. These findings will have considerable implications for academics as well as practitioners. Finally, the paper also provides direction for future research.

Retail location preferences: A comparative analysis

There is widespread criticism that gambling retailers are concentrated in deprived communities and that the concentration is deliberately targeted. However, this study opines that before deliberate targeting can be supported, a comparative analysis of gambling locations with a more conventional retail group is necessary. Hence this study examined the location preferences of gambling and food and grocery retailers (FGRs) to evaluate the notion of deliberate concentration of gambling retailers in deprived communities. Comparative analyses assessed relationships between FGRs floorspaces and overall gambling locations compared to socio-economic deprivation. Results showed similarities and disparities in retail locations, but gambling provisioning were more concentrated in deprived areas compared to food provisioning. Implications for policy and practice are presented.

Política social educativa y violencia escolar: brechas en su atención

The present work sends a critical analysis to the Cuban educational social policy, in the treatment of school violence, with a view to its improvement and to make visible this problem. The proposed research takes triangulation as a methodological strategy and assumes the basic secondary education of the Santiago de Cuba municipality as empirical references for its development. From the analysis of the results it is highlighted that, although the country is on a clear path towards the visibility of this scourge, the nullity of the term in the ministerial decrees and resolutions of the educational policy favors its ignorance. In it, the tangential approaches to the subject are limited to students' antisocial behaviors and their contexts of vulnerability; leaving out the rest of the actors involved in its construction. Likewise, in the development of strategies for their attention, the alienating participation of retail groups distant from school reality tends to prevail, and they swarm fissures in the training guidelines that are implemented.

The influence of organizational context on the managerial turnover–performance relationship

AbstractThis study performs a comprehensive examination of organizational context in the relationship between managerial turnover and organizational performance. Using theoretical frameworks of human and social capital, we focus on the moderating roles of entity size, employment system, industry brand, and location. To test our hypotheses, we worked with the company records of a multinational fashion retail group with more than 4,000 stores grouped into eight different brands and 100,000 employees in more than 31 countries. To estimate the causal contextual effects of the relationship between voluntary managerial turnover and organizational performance, we designed a quasi‐experiment using propensity score matching analysis. Our results show that the dysfunctional side of managerial turnover is significant for stores that are large, for stores managed under a primary employment system, for brands operating with higher levels of service orientation, and for countries with more restrictive employment protection legislation. We discuss the implications of these findings for practice and for future research.

New Rules on Consumer Sales - An Empirical Study

We examine the effects of Denmark's implementation of a EU-Directive (1999/44/EC), which for consumer sales extended the mandatory minimum limitation period from one to two years, shifted the burden of proof from the consumer to the seller up to sixth months after purchase, and which to a degree allowed the consumer a choice between replacement and repair of a non-performing good. We study the effects of these legal changes through a survey among a large group of Danish retailers. We find that the changes had real effects. For example, retailers stopped selling some goods, presumably of low quality, and consumers raised both more valid claims and, according to retailers, also more invalid ones. As another finding, although the legal changes concerning consumer rights (burden of proof and choice of remedy) were far from always given effect at the retail level, the changes did have real effects on the ways claims were handled in many instances. Based on our study it is not possible to conclude whether the legal changes improved social welfare; our aim was to provide some evidence concerning how statutes of limitations, and rules concerning the burden of proof and choice of remedy affect behavior.