Removing barriers for grocery stores: O2O platform and self-scheduling delivery capacity

B He, P Mirchandani, Y Wang - … Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract An O2O (Online-to-Offline) channel has advantages over brick-and-mortar retailing
and traditional e-commerce in the local market as it facilitates grocery retailers to offer online …

Online selling through O2O platform or on your own? Strategic implications for local Brick-and-Mortar stores

B He, V Gupta, P Mirchandani - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
Local brick-and-mortar (B&M) retail stores have traditionally served customers only in a
proximal geographic area with their existing operations from a physical store. Emerging …

How should local Brick-and-Mortar retailers offer delivery service in a pandemic World? Self-building Vs. O2O platform

B He, P Mirchandani, Q Shen, G Yang - Transportation Research Part E …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically changed consumer purchase behavior, and the
“stay-at-home order” policy has altered the operations of brick-and-mortar (B&M) retail …

O2O results in traffic congestion reduction and sustainability improvement: Analysis of “Online-to-Store” channel and uniform pricing strategy

B Niu, Z Mu, B Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effects of two O2O business models,(1) the uniform pricing and (2)
the online-to-store channel, on traffic congestion control. We show that uniform pricing …

Choice of O2O food delivery mode: Self-built platform or third-party platform? Self-delivery or third-party delivery?

Z Du, ZP Fan, GX Gao - IEEE Transactions on Engineering …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article examines the optimal choice strategy of online-to-offline (O2O) food delivery
mode for a merchant. In practice, there are four modes that are widely adopted by …

Opaque distribution channels for service providers with asymmetric capacities: Posted-price mechanisms

Z Mao, W Liu, B Feng - International Journal of Production Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
A new e-commerce model called online-to-offline (O2O) e-commerce has attracted
significant managerial and academic attention. One of the most recent applications of the …

O2O dual-channel sales: Choices of pricing policy and delivery mode for a restaurant

Z Du, ZP Fan, F Sun - International Journal of Production Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
In reality, we can see that many restaurants adopt O2O dual-channel sales to meet the
demands of consumers. For the dual-channel sales, the restaurants have two pricing …

Manufacturer rebate and channel coordination in O2O retailing

Z Pei, BR Wooldridge, KR Swimberghe - Journal of Retailing and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many manufacturers are opening their own online channels due to the growth of e-
commerce leading to intensive channel competition with their offline retailer partners. This …

Omnichannel services: The false premise and operational remedies

O Baron, X Chen, Y Li - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
The notion of omnichannel, an integration of brick-and-mortar stores with online channels,
has been thriving in recent years and is reforming the traditional service industry. Many …

Service strategies and channel coordination in the age of E-commerce

N Amrouche, Z Pei, R Yan - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of service strategies to lessen the competition between the manufacturer's online
store and the physical retailer is lacking seminal research studies in nowadays'e-commerce …