Online Retail

This paper examines the evolution of retailing, i.e. from traditional to electronic to metaverse retailing and sheds light on the ways metaverses influence that evolution. The spatial dimension is taken into consideration as retailers could operate simultaneously in three different, but intertwined spaces. Particular emphasis is paid to key promotional aspects and we highlight the key challenges and opportunities faced by traditional retailers, e-retailers and metaverse retailers. For the metaverse phenomenon, the authors analyse Second Life and a range of findings emerge. One key finding is that retailers need to employ a holistic and overarching approach when devising their promotional strategies, especially if they aim to operate at the metaverse stage as well. At the end, the authors recommend a range of future research avenues and note the immediate need for policy development dealing with the metaverse phenomenon.

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insanlar ve toplumlar üzerinde sosyolojik, psikolojik işletme ve ekonomi
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farklı etkileri ortaya çıkması muhtemeldir.

Consumers have traditionally looked for products that could fulfill their needs and retailers responded to demand by initially adopting product-oriented, and then more recently, customer-oriented strategies. This shift was heavily underpinned by technology, which enabled retailers to implement more intelligent approaches that evolved around consumers based on their profiles. The next step in this transformation is now towards a "unique" experience creation, with retailers providing a retail theater experience that is different and special and consumers enjoying an increased opportunity to interact and participate in the overall experience. In this paper, we examine how metaverses, i.e. Internet-based virtual worlds, and more specifically Second Life, can potentially provide the stage for this retail theater experience. Our discussion takes place in the context of two cases that are used to highlight the implications of retail theater for both consumers and retailers and illustrate the opportunities and challenges they face.

The online retail giant Amazon was recently awarded a patent for its “method and system for anticipatory package shipping”. In essence, this patent describes how the retailer wants to build a system for delivering commodities to potential buyers before they place an order. Based on previous orders, items in the shipping cart, and tracking of web-browsing, the package is sent to a specified geographic area and while the package is in transit or waiting at a hub, the final delivery address is specified. What is the logic behind such methods? Why must exchange be anticipated?

This paper will use Amazon’s anticipatory shipping as an example with which to explore why and how value (and by extension capital) must move and accelerate. The paper will focus on the relationship between movement, the value-form and form-determination to account for why value must move, how it moves and by what means. The paper argues that the formal reason for why value must move can be located in the immanent contradiction of the commodity, which requires value to appear in its form. Prior to exchange, products are merely products of labour, use-values, but not yet consummated as values. There is an imperative to transport commodities as fast as possible to the market for value to be realized; anticipatory shipping is thus an articulation of this imperative.

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Spanish consumers and retailers have had a very difficult five years with the country in recession for much of this time. 2013 continued to be tough for shoppers and businesses alike. Although there have been signs of improvement and the country inched out of recession in the third quarter, the recovery has been very slow and tentative and it remains risk-bound. In the short term, people will continue to suffer as a result of high unemployment and public spending cuts.

Today, online retail businesses focused on the adoption of customer-centric approaches and process improvements in the business. Since the last few decades, information technology trends and internet technologies are providing business opportunities to marketers in the online retail segment. Many retailers have started their online transactions and opened new formats of retailing called e-retailing. Online retailers cannot ignore these factors used by the consumer during the selection of an online retailer. This paper identifies the factors and criteria used by consumers to select online retailers for their consumption needs. The data collected revealed the selection criteria used by the consumers to select online retailers for their shopping. After collecting the data, the analysis is done using the statistical technique of interval estimates of the proportion. The outcome of the paper deliberates the significant factors considered by the consumers while selecting online retailers were price range, offers and discounts, product quality, available payment methods, transparent return policy, detailed product description, delivery options, online retailers image, trust, word of mouth, social media reports, customer reviews, website interaction, respecting privacy and security of data. Furthermore, a model of online retailing with criteria is proposed, which can help the retailers to operate their business in the Indian retail environment effectively. Hence, the outcome of this study provides valuable information that can be used by online retailers to be more visible and aligned for customers and will be able to serve them effectively as expected by them.

Keywords: E-retailing, Retail Technology, Online Retailers, Retailer Selection Criteria, Retail Consumer Influence, Online Retailer Selection Model, Consumerism in India

Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management

This study investigated the relationships between the ethics of online retailing and customer perceived value in Turkish retail cyberspace. The data was obtained from the responses of 206 Turkish customers who had purchased at least an item online in the last 4 months. The results revealed that there were significant relationships between the dimensions of the ethics of online retailing security, privacy, non deception, fulfillment and customer perceived value. The limitations of the study and the suggestions for future research were presented.

El presente documento es una demostración del uso del algoritmo a priori en la computación de reglas de asociación en las transacciones de un comercio minorista en línea registrado en el Reino Unido en el periodo 01/12/2009 - 09/12/2011, basado en el paquete “arules” del leguaje R, determinándose que la regla {Childrens Garden Gloves Pink,Childs Garden Trowel Blue } ⇒ {Childs Garden Trowel Pink} es la más confiable.

This paper examines the evolution of retailing, i.e. from traditional to electronic to metaverse retailing and sheds light on the ways metaverses influence that evolution. The spatial dimension is taken into consideration as retailers could operate simultaneously in three different, but intertwined spaces. Particular emphasis is paid to key promotional aspects and we highlight the key challenges and opportunities faced by traditional retailers, e-retailers and metaverse retailers. For the metaverse phenomenon, the authors analyse Second Life and a range of findings emerge. One key finding is that retailers need to employ a holistic and overarching approach when devising their promotional strategies, especially if they aim to operate at the metaverse stage as well. At the end, the authors recommend a range of future research avenues and note the immediate need for policy development dealing with the metaverse phenomenon.

This paper presents some findings from a study researching the diffusion and adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. Although the country has the largest and fastest growing ICT marketplace in the Arab region, e-commerce activities have not progressed at a similar speed. In general, Saudi retailers have not responded actively to the global growth of online retailing. Accordingly new research has been conducted to identify and explore key issues that positively and negatively influence Saudi retailers in deciding whether to adopt the online channel. While the overall research project uses mixed methods, the focus of this paper is on a quantitative analysis of responses obtained from a survey of retailers in Saudi Arabia, with the design of the questionnaire instrument being based on the findings of a qualitative analysis reported in a previous paper. The main findings of the current analysis include a list of key factors that affect retailers ’ decision to adopt e-commerce, and...

Epilepsy has been known for thousands of years and still remains one of the commonest neurological disorders worldwide. Since long, various forms of alternative medicine have been practiced to control epileptic seizures; one such practice is application of shoe-smell especially in some eastern countries and which continues to be in vogue even today. An underlying scientific basis of this practice has been proposed earlier. This brief paper presents emerging empirical evidence that apparently validates the scientific basis of the practice of shoe-smelling to control epileptic seizures.