A simulation on impacts of a dynamic pricing model for perishable foods on retail operations productivity and customer behaviours

IEEM2010 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1300-1304

  Chung, Jaekwon ^a   Li, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Consumer; Dynamic pricing; Retail operations productivity; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR; CONSUMER; DYNAMIC PRICING; RETAIL OPERATIONS; SIMULATION;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY;

SALES;

EID: 78751699371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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