International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management: Volume 29 Issue 4

ABC/TA for Internet retail shopping

Tony Tollington, Philipp Wachter

Considers some of the assumptions underpinning the utilisation of activity‐based costing (ABC) and throughput accounting (TA) systems in relation to Internet retail shopping. It…

Identifying the success factors in e‐grocery home delivery

Mikko Punakivi, Juha Saranen

Efforts in the electronic grocery shopping, i.e. e‐grocery business, focus especially on the physical distribution of the goods. For example, in the USA there are several…

Taxonomy of inventory policies for supply‐chain effectiveness

Charu Chandra, Sameer Kumar

The concept of taxonomy is applied to inventory management in a supply‐chain using the example of the US textile industry. Through classification and standardisation of issues…

Thorntons: the vertically integrated retailer, questioning the strategy

David Jennings

Examines the strategic implications of a retailer engaging in the in‐house sourcing of its products (vertical integration). A contextual model for the make‐or‐buy decision is…

Retailers’ experiences with and attitudes toward the Saudi Arabian EFTPoS system

Alhassan G. Abdul‐Muhmin, Ibrahim A. Alzamel

Saudi retailers’ experiences with the system for electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPoS) in Saudi Arabia and the effects of those experiences on their attitudes toward…