Retail Stores

Our task was to create a store that will be operational in 2025. in Belgrade. Through three parts: concept, process digitization of process and assortment, we need to find out real technological advancements and trends in retail for the target group Millennials. It was necessary to give answer to the challenges that relate to products, promotion and sales.
My team was composed of three more girls from different faculties than my own and and we didn't know each other before, so the additional challenge was to collect and adjust our ideas in one, the best solution.

This study helps to investigate the consumers buying behavior towards organized retail stores in India. Indian retailing is at all time growth today. Retail bazaar in India is booming beyond everyone " s expectation. India is the fifth largest preferred retail destination globally, hence participation from foreign and private players are increased which leads to tough competition to attract customers. In this situation the discussion is open on the survival of organized retailers in India. The main focus of the research will be highlighting the tools which can help organized retail unit to provide a better retail mix for attracting more customers and their securing their long time existence. For achieving objectives the researcher has collected suitable literature. Secondary data was adopted in this study. The study reveals that location and offers are the most important criteria to choose the outlet. The wide range of product attributes, ambience, fast billing process, customer service, parking facility, systematic display, attracts the consumers to buy from organized retail outlet.

Indian youth is emerging as a very powerful and significant consumer market. Food retailers have to adopt new strategies to win the hearts of the customers, especially youths of India. The present study has tried to understand the level of perception and consumption behaviour of the youth by examining the retail store attributes of the food outlets which are considered important in making the buying decision of food products from the local or franchise-based food outlets. Further, the study provides an empirical evidence for the relationships among the food quality and servicescapes as the retail store attributes and this attempt to bring strong store and customer engagement towards a particular food outlet. In this regard, the present study includes two important components of retail store attributes, i.e., food quality and servicescapes. The data was collected from registered Ph. D research scholars and final semester students of postgraduate courses enrolled in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar for the session 2016-17 through self-modified and well-structured instrument. Selection of food outlets, specifically local food outlets and franchise-based food outlets is done because of fast changing trends in food and eating habits of consumers which have contributed largely to the growth and development of organised food retail formats in India. The statistical technique, such as reliability and validity, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modelling (SEM) were used for data analysis. The study found that among the two dimensions of retail store attributes, food quality has a positive and significant impact on store engagement. However, the impact of servicescape on store engagement was found to be non-significant. When we analysed the direct impact of food quality and servicescape on customer engagement, we found that servicescape has a positive and significant impact on customer engagement. On the other hand, the impact of food quality on customer engagement is insignificant. Further, store engagement significantly leads to customer engagement in context to food retail outlets. Thus, the study reveals that the impact of food quality on customer engagement is significant through store engagement. In order to make maximum footfall in the food outlets substantive other insights must be brought into the retail store attributes like in atmospherics or ambience of the food outlet. The results of the study are helpful for future service providers, tourism businesses, tourism retailers, and other service sectors to plan better services and equip a wider range of service skills and this exaggerates more store patronage towards the particular food outlet.

This paper presents the results of a literature review for understanding the selection criteria of store location in the retail context. The review provides overall insight into prior studies that specifically emphasize on factors influencing store performance. Store performance has been evaluated by using various measures such as store sales, market share, retail patronage, store traffic, store profits and so forth in different studies. The intention of the review is to (1) classify the store location-selection criteria, and (2) provide researchers with a theoretical model on which future research on store performance may be oriented.

Keywords: store location; population; economic factors; competition; saturation level; magnet; store characteristics.

My article investigated the drivers of shopping mall attractiveness. Which of various shopping mall qualities are key to building a mall’s attractiveness? This was the fundamental question in the crosssectional, survey-based correlational study. The participants included 384 adult Poles (192 men and 192 women whose median age was 22). The survey included 58 items – nine to measure the shopping mall’s attractiveness (its emotional impact, cognitive effect and the customer’s visiting frequency), and 49 to measure its hypothetical predictors. The investigated objects were six urban shopping malls in Wroclaw, Poland. It turned out that shopping mall attractiveness was driven mainly by their atmosphere and social positioning. Surprisingly, the more subjectively noisy and crowded the shopping mall was, the more attractive it appeared to be; commerce-related features, on the other hand, while usually treated as vital to a shopping center, contributed relatively little to the mall’s attractiveness.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the IoT’s technology practices and performance in retail sector. This internet information technology is vital part of the evolution of retail sector. This paper develops an analytical framework for the assessment of approaches for the measurement of IoT’s technology practices and performance in the retail store operation. Methodology used as literature review and conceptual development of framework. Existing approaches also discussed in the improving retail inventory management operation

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Objectives of this study were to understand the influence of salient store image dimension and overall store image on retail store patronage and also to identify the nature of relationship (congruence/ divergence) between customers‟ self-images and their corresponding store images. Data was collected using questionnaire from 175 respondents of specialty and departmental store types. Factor analysis was used to determine the important dimensions of store image. These dimensions were regressed on store patronage to analyze their role in predicting the same. Reasons for a shopper to patronize department store was spaciousness, merchandise arrangement, and clientele and specialty store for distinctiveness of the merchandise and value for money. Image dimension that was salient in specialty store was value for money and for a departmental store it was its clientele. Congruence between customers‟ self-images and their corresponding store images were a very important determinant of patronage for frequent shoppers of both the formats.

India is sometimes referred to as the nation of shopkeepers. The country has the highest destiny of retail outlet-over 15 million – in this world Retailing is the largest industry in India and second largest employer after agriculture. Store atmosphere in retailing focuses on customer expectation. The ability of the retail organization to identify these expectations and fulfill them will determine whether consumers enter the shop again and again. If retailers provide good atmosphere, then customers are obviously attracted to retail stores. Organized retail stores are focusing and targeting to provide best store atmosphere. The research paper attempts to assess the store atmosphere strategies of organized retail store of Udaipur in Rajasthan state and various applied approaches of retail stores to attract and retain the customer. The results of this research show that the store atmosphere in an important determinant of purchase intention in retail stores.

Key Words: Retail stores, Store Atmosphere, Store layout

Mother-housewife is now pretty much do a sideline in order to assist in meeting the economic needs of
the family, in addition to fulfilling its obligation to take care of the household. One of them with a business carried
retail shop at home or near home to sell groceries and other household purposes. Currently the constraints are
reduction in turnover of goods that is not maximized, because many competitors of similar business and reach
customers only residential environment, a lot of goods in warehouses and on display is lost, and are not know for
sure and written for most items sold in the market.
Solutions offered to help improve the circulation of goods made to maximize inventory system that records the
entry and exit of goods and cash flow reporting system in order to determine the most goods sold and can find out
the benefits for each month or each year. As for the campaign to reach out not only around the housing but also
outside its territory by using SMS Gateway .
The expected outcome of this program is the partner can set the system inventory information, analyze sales
reports for most items sold in the market, and could use a particular computer application program control
supplies. Besides, by using the SMS gateway can be used as a medium for marketing of goods for the purpose that
increasingly wide range of market share not only a residential area or neighborhood

These days the focus of companies has turned from developing the image of products to creating a
reverberating store image. Store image is composed of many different factors, such as store design,
location, merchandise, and the knowledge and congeniality of the sales staff. All these factors affect
consumer behavior and the brand image of the company. Retail design is the function of developing
the store image, or more exactly, store environment. Retail design has several objectives to perform.
The retail environment is changing more than ever before. Intensifying competition and more
sophisticated and demanding customers harbour greater expectations as to their sensory and
consumption experiences. A retail store experience involves more than a nonretail services experience
in terms of customers negotiating their way through a store, finding the merchandising they want,
interacting with several store personnel along the way, and returning merchandise, all of which
influence customers’ evaluations of store. Employees also play a key role in terms of their talents and
problem-solving behavior. Customer satisfaction, this paper concludes, contributes to employer
satisfaction and vice-versa. While it is generally assumed that retail firms will and should use fast
responses when threatened by lower product line margins, the term fast should not be confused with
“fastest possible response” in order to avoid being “too fast” or “too late” Rather, evidence suggests
that retailers should be intentional in designing their store systems to be in line with the information
content of their product/service offering so that they are both deliberate and flexible in managing
product line margins along with the most appropriate store operating design strategy.
Keywords: Retail, Store, Loyalty, Satisfaction, design, layout

Retail stores in early Virginia were semi-public arenas where rich and poor, men and women, enslaved and free all purchased in the new consumerism of the late eighteenth-century.  This paper elaborates those spaces where that trianglation of merchant-customer-and object occurred by delineating common patterns of spaces of building, selling, and working.

Between 1959 and 1964, Javier Carvajal architectural team built thirteen boutiques for Spanish fashion firm Loewe. The innovative design of the boutiques was part of a period of renewal and makeover of the brand, boosted by the cultural modernization that was taking place in Spain. It was at this point when collaborations between architects, artists and fashion entrepreneurs such as Carvajal and Loewe started to increase, as a way to transform entirely the boutiques, products, commercial strategies and corporate image of the brand as a whole. A critical analysis of the boutiques is crucial to get to know the strategies Javier Carvajal used in his designs for Loewe. It is known, for example, that Carvajal transformed Loewe’s boutique located in Serrano Street (Madrid) into an exhibition hall in order to present the new products of the firm as true fashion masterpieces. This and other examples are showcased in this article, which aims to produce a methodological way to analyse the architecture of shops based in Carvajal and Loewe’s work.

A major challenge for any company, regardless of its field of activity, is related to the considerable improvement of financial indicators that determine its activity, such as: market share, turnover, sales volume and value, number of customers, etc. In generating these quantitative indicators, a major role is also played by qualitative indicators, usually represented by consumers᾿ and clients᾿ reviews. These qualitative indicators include satisfaction with companies᾿ services, trust and sympathy displayed, return to the store and positive recommendations of the store to friends, relatives or other people, together with the perceived fairness of retailers᾿ treatment. They represent important vectors not only in generating behavioral success of these stores, but also in attracting and retaining customers. In shaping a favorable perception, a particular role is played by several levers - prices, assortment, store atmosphere, customer service, etc. These, together with awareness, trust...

This paper presents the results of a literature review for understanding the selection criteria of store location in the retail context. The review provides overall insight into prior studies that specifically emphasize on factors influencing store performance. Store performance has been evaluated by using various measures such as store sales, market share, retail patronage, store traffic, store profits and so forth in different studies. The intention of the review is to (1) classify the store location-selection criteria, and (2) provide researchers with a theoretical model on which future research on store performance may be oriented. Keywords: store location; population; economic factors; competition; saturation level; magnet; store characteristics.

Brand  loyalty  is  one  of  the  most  important  factors  influencing  on  the  success  of  retail  stores.
Many retail stores in the field of sport shoes in city of Tehran, Iran are facing tight competition
and  there  seems  to  be  that  only  stores  with  loyal  customers  could  survive.  In  this  paper,  we
present an exploration study to find out important factors influencing retail stores selling one of
well-known sport shows such as Adidas, Nike, etc. in city of Tehran, Iran.  The proposed study
designs  a  questionnaire  in  Likert  scale  and  distributes  among  265  regular  customers  of  these
stores  and  analyze  them  using  factor  analysis.  The  results  indicate  that  there  were  four
important factors influencing customer loyalty including brand identification, brand promotion,
brand loyalty and characterization of stores.

This chapter from a larger book study details the actions of the enslaved as consumers in early Virginia. As seen through the lens of merchants' account books, unfree Blacks created  their own petty economy of imported purchases and local payments that was embedded deep and most often hidden within vast trading networks of the British Atlantic. This material culture analysis uncovers the relationships and power of the enslaved who could trade their labor for objects of comfort and fashion in the exploding world of goods--all at the local retail store.

The main aim of the article is to describe the phenomenon of the festival marketplace using the example of Manufaktura in Łódź, which is a post-socialist Polish city. The article presents the concept, the development of large shopping centres, and the main socio-economic and spatial urban transformations that accompanied the creation of Manufaktura. The research methods included analysis of Internet and statistical data, participant observation, one in-depth interview, and a large number of semi-structured interviews. The results of the study confirm that Manufaktura – a large arts centre, shopping mall, and leisure complex built in the revitalized part of a former textile factory – represents most of the festival marketplace features. Additionally, revitalization reflects urban transformation processes in post-socialist cities, such as functional transformation, deindustrialization, internationalization of trade, privatization, or changes in consumer behaviour. The author concludes that Manufaktura is now an important part of the revitalized urban geographical space in Łódź. It performs essential urban functions, not only commercial but also cultural and tourism-related.

Consumer behavior is a key determinant on the success of products and services in the competitive markets. Electronic commerce has revolutionalised customer value delivery. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of consumer behavior on adoption of electronic commerce in retail stores with a case reference of three supermarkets in Limuru town, Kenya. More specifically to determine effect of problem recognition, the influence of information search and evaluation, outcome of purchasing decision and result of post purchase behavior by the consumer on adoption of e-commerce. Census data was collected from 115 employees. Regression analysis and F tests were carried out on data to determine the relationship between causative and effect factors. The empirical results showed consumer behavior influences electronic commerce adoption in emerging markets.

Becca, an enslaved woman, was found guilty of theft in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1807. Her story sets the scene for a new understanding of stores in early Vir-ginia. Becca had entered a well-appointed store and asked to look at some lace in a show case on the counter. The ...