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Supermarket Key Attributes and Location Decisions: A Comparative Study between British and Spanish Consumers

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Daniel Serra ()
Rosa Colomé
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The Maximum Capture problem (MAXCAP) is a decision model that addresses the issue of location in a competitive environment. This paper presents a new approach to determine which store’s attributes (other than distance) should be included in the new Market Capture Models and how they ought to be reflected using the Multiplicative Competitive Interaction model. The methodology involves the design and development of a survey; and the application of factor analysis and ordinary least squares. The methodology has been applied to the supermarket sector in two different scenarios: Milton Keynes (Great Britain) and Barcelona (Spain).

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Paper provided by Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in its series Economics Working Papers with number 469.

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Keywords: Distance; competitive location models; consumer choice behavior; supermarket location;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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  1. Daniel Serra & Rosa Colomé, 1998. "Consumer Choice in Competitive Location Models: Formulations and Heuristics," Economics Working Papers 290, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
  2. D Serra & S Ratick & C ReVelle, 1996. "The maximum capture problem with uncertainty," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Pion Ltd, London, vol. 23(1), pages 49-59, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Rosing, K. E. & ReVelle, C. S., 1997. "Heuristic concentration: Two stage solution construction," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 97(1), pages 75-86, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Rosa Colomé & Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço & Daniel Serra, 2003. "A New Chance-constrained Maximum Capture Location Problem," Economics Working Papers 661, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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