International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management: Volume 48 Issue 6

Fast and ultra-fast fashion supply chain management: an exploratory research

Lucas Ramos Camargo, Susana Carla Farias Pereira, Marcia Regina Santiago Scarpin

The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the main strategic differences between fast and ultra-fast fashion supply chain management.

Online decision aids: the role of decision-making styles and decision-making stages

Preeti Virdi, Arti D. Kalro, Dinesh Sharma

Decision aids (DAs) in online retail stores ease consumers' information processing. However, online consumers do not use all decision aids in purchase decision-making. While the…

Consumers' brand decision: a matter of social risk

Natascha Loebnitz, Stephan Zielke, Klaus G. Grunert

This study aims to investigate the impact of social risk and inter-tier brand competition across traditional retailers and discounters on consumers' purchase intentions in the UK.

Loyalty cards, credit options and economic market development

Stephan Zielke, Marcin Komor

This paper analyses three strategies in customers’ use to afford consumption in a developed and an emerging market for different product groups. The strategies are: (1) usage of…

A two-stage EBM-based approach to evaluate operational performance of unattended convenience store

Liming Yao, Yuhong Shuai, Xudong Chen, Anran Xiao

Due to recent technological advances, the retail industry has changed significantly. This paper examines a novel unmanned retail mode-unattended convenience store to identify the…

Omni-channel capability and customer satisfaction: mediating roles of flexibility and operational logistics service quality

Metehan Feridun Sorkun, Işık Özge Yumurtacı Hüseyinoğlu, Gülmüş Börühan

This study aims to reveal how omni-channel capability leads to customer satisfaction by examining the mediating roles of flexibility and operational logistics service quality…