Rising e-commerce means more delivery trucks and urban gridlock. Lockers at transit centers, where carriers can leave packages for people who live or work nearby, are a potential solution.
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E-commerce videos are a precision advertising tool which could put the nail in the coffin of traditional television adverts.
Holiday retail sales may boom this year – and the lion's share will not be online purchases. Yet brick-and-mortar retail stores are facing heavy internet competition.
Retailers should design online strategies to fit their desired customers’ characteristics.
The rapid penetration of internet technologies in Africa provides hope for e-commerce's continued growth. Potential online stores need to understand what draws or pushes customers away.
Research shows that technology disrupts economies of scale, turning megacities' huge populations from strength to liability. To survive, megacities, like companies, must adapt.
Americans' reliance on their smartphones and tablets will drive online shopping revenue to new heights – and could introduce new buying experiences as well.
We want products that last, it's up to manufacturers to provide us with the information we need to buy them.
China's newly introduced "e-commerce laws" are actually just closing a loophole in regulation and shouldn't be seen feared by Australian businesses trading with the country online.
The unstoppable spread of budget stores is an emotive topic, but they can bring fresh life to town centres
People have a mental model of shopping that is based on experiences from brick-and-mortar stores. We intuitively understand how this process works: all available products are displayed around the store…
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Professor, Director: School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Maître de conférences associé à l’IAE Brest, chercheur associé au LEGO, Université de Bretagne occidentale
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Lecturer in Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Maître de conférences, chercheur en marketing, Université de Bretagne Sud
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AsiaGlobal Fellow, University of Hong Kong
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Associate professor of operations research, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
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Director, Urban Freight Lab, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Fellow in Science, Technology & Economics at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, University of Washington
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Associate Research Fellow in RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
