Exploring night-time grocery shopping behaviour

Geiger, Susi

doi:10.1016/j.jretconser.2006.03.001

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“…Having suitable shopping hours is therefore an important factor that affects when, what, where, and at what price products are consumed. For example, the changing lifestyles of modern consumers, toward becoming more flexible and harried, mean that nighttime supermarkets are highly appreciated by parts of the population [21].…”

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The Role of Formal and Informal Forces in Shaping Consumption and Implications for a Sustainable Society. Part I

Mont

Power²

2010

Sustainability

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Abstract:Addressing climate change and the collapse of ecosystems without threatening the economy, while simultaneously improving the well-being of all people and ensuring social justice and equality, seems to be the largest challenge in the history of mankind. So far, all the efforts to address growing environmental and human problems through technological solutions and policy measures have been largely outpaced by growing population and increasing consumption levels. Therefore, an understanding of the essential driving forces and complexities of consumption, and of how environmental impacts from rising consumption can be reduced, is becoming increasingly important. This understanding can be achieved by analyzing not only economic frameworks, political settings, business models, and technological innovations, but also social norms, psychological factors, and collective and individual decision-making processes. This article, Part I, provides a meta-analysis of the main political, economic, technological, and business drivers of contemporary consumption and offers a systematic discussion of the relevance of these factors for the instigation of change towards sustainable patterns and levels of consumption. The main conclusion from Part I and II is that a systems-thinking approach is required in order to understand how various political, technical, social, economic, and psychological drivers overlap and influence each other in creating our consumer society. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2010, 2 2233

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Section: Economic Frameworkmentioning

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The Role of Formal and Informal Forces in Shaping Consumption and Implications for a Sustainable Society. Part I

Mont

Power²

2010

Sustainability

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“…In our contemporary 24/7 society, activity-travel behavior of people is becoming more flexible and fragmented in space and time [ 44 ], particularly due to the flexibility in working schedules and night-shift working [ 45 ]. Thus, food purchasing is occurring throughout the day and includes a need for night shopping [ 46 ]. Neglecting the latter in calculating access to healthy food may lead to biased input regarding accessibility measures for health studies.…”

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Health research needs more comprehensive accessibility measures: integrating time and transport modes from open data

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BackgroundIn this paper, we demonstrate why and how both temporality and multimodality should be integrated in health related studies that include accessibility perspective, in this case healthy food accessibility. We provide evidence regarding the importance of using multimodal spatio-temporal accessibility measures when conducting research in urban contexts and propose a methodological approach for integrating different travel modes and temporality to spatial accessibility analyses. We use the Helsinki metropolitan area (Finland) as our case study region to demonstrate the effects of temporality and modality on the results.MethodsSpatial analyses were carried out on 250 m statistical grid squares. We measured travel times between the home location of inhabitants and open grocery stores providing healthy food at 5 p.m., 10 p.m., and 1 a.m. using public transportation and private cars. We applied the so-called door-to-door approach for the travel time measurements to obtain more realistic and comparable results between travel modes. The analyses are based on open access data and publicly available open-source tools, thus similar analyses can be conducted in urban regions worldwide.ResultsOur results show that both time and mode of transport have a prominent impact on the outcome of the analyses; thus, understanding the realities of accessibility in a city may be very different according to the setting of the analysis used. In terms of travel time, there is clear variation in the results at different times of the day. In terms of travel mode, our results show that when analyzed in a comparable manner, public transport can be an even faster mode than a private car to access healthy food, especially in central areas of the city where the service network is dense and public transportation system is effective.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that time and transport modes are essential components when modeling health-related accessibility in urban environments. Neglecting them from spatial analyses may lead to overly simplified or even erroneous images of the realities of accessibility. Hence, there is a risk that health related planning and decisions based on simplistic accessibility measures might cause unwanted outcomes in terms of inequality among different groups of people.

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“…La desregulación permite a los establecimientos elegir el horario más adecuado, lo que aporta una diferenciación estratégica (Geiger, 2007). Por ejemplo, las grandes superficies usan un mayor margen de horarios que las medianas superficies y los pequeños establecimientos (Halk y Trager, 1999).…”

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“…Los factores político-legales más contemplados en la literatura son las bluelaws 1 (legislación sobre horarios comerciales) bajo tres enfoques distintos: el efecto sobre el pequeño comercio (Grunhagen, Grove y Gentry, 2003;Grunhagen y Mittelstaedt, 2001); los efectos macroeconómicos (empleo y precios) (Reddy, 2012;Skuterud, 2005); y los efectos socioló-gicos sobre el consumidor y los empleados (Geiger, 2007;Jacobsen y Kooreman, 2005). Más recientemente, Henisz y Zelner (2010) establecen que los factores políticos tienen más efecto en los países emergentes que en los maduros.…”

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The Bluelaws Role in the Evolution Models of Retailing

Ballina¹,

Vázquez²

2015

HPE-RPE

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ResumenLa literatura sobre las bluelaws (regulación de horarios comerciales) es muy amplia e importante, pero sus resultados son muy dispersos y distintos, y siempre ha trabajado con una perspectiva estrictamente sectorial y una metodología univariable. Es necesario estudiar la desregulación de horarios comerciales dentro de un modelo global de cambio, incorporando variables económicas externas (PIB) y variables de competencia endógenas (como las cuotas de superficie comercial). Nuestro modelo destaca que la desregulación de horarios afecta de forma inmediata a las estrategias de tiempo como servicio al consumidor ofertado por los supermercados y los centros comerciales. Que la competencia determina los cambios en la estructura comercial, la productividad y en el empleo del sector. En tanto que la situación de la economía explica las variaciones en las ventas y los precios.Palabras clave: Política Comercial, Horarios, Competencia.Clasificación JEL: M38, D30, C12.

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Exploring night-time grocery shopping behaviour

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

The Role of Formal and Informal Forces in Shaping Consumption and Implications for a Sustainable Society. Part I

The Role of Formal and Informal Forces in Shaping Consumption and Implications for a Sustainable Society. Part I

Health research needs more comprehensive accessibility measures: integrating time and transport modes from open data

The Bluelaws Role in the Evolution Models of Retailing

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