Online Grocery Retailing: Success Factors and Potential Pitfalls

Business Horizons

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 73-83

  Keh, Hean Tat ^b   Shieh, Elain ^a  

^a ABX Logistics   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

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EID: 0041490575     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-6813(01)80050-1     Document Type: Article

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