“…In recent years, a large number of studies examined the importance and adoption of the private-labels strategy by retailers, both internationally (Laaksonen & Reynolds, 1994;Dhar & Hoch, 1997;Burt, 2000;Chintagunta, Bonfrer, & Song, 2002;Garretson, Fisher, & Burton, 2002;Datta, 2003;Kent, 2003;Miranda & Joshi, 2003;Davies & Brito, 2004;Ailawadi & Keller, 2004;Fearne, Duffy, & Hornibrook, 2005;Vahie & Paswan, 2006), and nationally (Neves, Castro, & Gomes, 2002;Oliveira, 2005;Paula & Silva, 2005;Piato, 2006;Piato, Silva, & Paula, 2007Paula, Hingley, Silva, & Piato, 2008;Paula, Silva, & Piato, 2013).…”