Smells in Sustainable Environments: The Scented Silk Road to Spending

Humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what earth can regenerate in that year, creating an urgent need for more sustainable behavior. Here, the focus is on a particular factor that so far has been overlooked in facilitating sustainable behavior, namely smell. The two-fold aim of this study was (i) to investigate whether ambient scent could enhance customers' subjective experience and spending behavior in a sustainable environment, and (ii) to elucidate the affective and cognitive pathways from scent to spending. To test this, a double-blind field experiment was designed where customers of a second-hand clothing store (N = 57) could face one of three conditions: fresh linen scent (pleasant and semantically priming “clean clothing” increasing the products' value), vanilla sandalwood scent (pleasant control odor), or regular store odor (odorless control). Buttressed by prior research, the fresh linen scent was expected to cause the strongest increase in spending behavior due to its positive semantic association with the product (i.e., clean clothing). The results indeed showed that fresh linen scent almost doubled consumer spending vs. the odorless control and the pleasant control odor. Other factors potentially affecting consumer behavior (e.g., weekday, weather, odor awareness) were uncorrelated. Whereas a conceptually-driven mediation analysis showed that only fresh linen scent increased mood and evaluations of the store, staff, and products, these variables did not mediate the relation between scent and spending. An explorative structural equation model suggested cognitive priming to be mainly responsible for increasing consumers' spending in the fresh linen condition by enhancing the general store evaluation. Further support is needed to corroborate the indirect findings that specific scents can follow a “cold” semantic road and a “hot” affective road to spending. At minimum, consumers are no “zombies” that empty their pockets in the presence of whatever odor; the smell needs to have a meaningful link to the (sustainable) context at hand to influence consumer behavior.

Peran General Store Section dalam Mendukung Mutu Pelayanan Usaha Hotel

General Store is one of the important sections in Hotels that are included in the accounting Deparment. A general store is a storage place for all operational items of the hotel. Each hotel makes its own efforts to keep the inventory of the hotel which will become the guest necessities. This research aims to know what efforts are made to maintain the quality of hotel operational goods through the role of the general store section at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. Is in accordance with the standard or does not give special treatment to the operational goods (ignored). The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method by collecting data through interviews. Interviews were conducted with general store staff, cost control staff, and trainees of food beverages at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. The results of the research show that The Hotel Phoenix Yogyakarta made positive efforts that can reduce damage to goods stored in the general store and always ensure the goods that come to the guests are in good condition so that guests will feel satisfied.

Giving Opens The Way For Receiving!! ... A Microscopic View Into Selection Of Tea Brand In India

Tea has played a role in almost all cultures and customs. The Indian Tea Industry is about 176 years old. Satisfying customers’ wishes is a challenge for many companies in the today’s rapidly changing and keenly competitive environment in today’s Tea industry. In this experiment with, seven product attributes of tea where each attribute has three performance levels have been designed for conjoint analysis. The first influencing factor is the preference of the type of tea where packaged tea has the highest utility as it captures the maximum of Tea market in India as compared to loose or tea bags which are mostly not preferred by the consumers. As consumers are very loyal towards the Tea brand which they purchase and hence we can see the most important criterion or influencing factor while selection of tea is the Brand name followed by the family opinion as traditionally the family believes to have a good taste of tea which should act a stimulant and psychological preference and family preference does matter when purchasing a tea. The pricing is the fourth important factor influencing the choice of tea. The most preferred attributes for tea are Variety of tea should be leaf with medium pricing where selection criterion of tea is good taste and brand name influences the consumer the highest and Tea should preferably be present at all General Store Outlets and preferred convenient packaging for consumers is Carton Boxes.

A Few Words About the Ice House of the Konsum Store in the Nineteenth-Century Priest’s Mill Factory and Residential Complex in Łódź

The issue of ice houses, both those found among manor and farm buildings and those connected with industrial plants, is a research issue frequently raised in many countries of Western Europe and in the United States. In the Polish literature, however, it does not attract much interest, which is why knowledge of it – or at least the knowledge shared – is usually limited to the awareness of the existence of ice houses and their purpose, and only occasionally do they become subjects of more extensive research. This also concerns the very material substance of such buildings. In 2015, on the Priest’s Mill estate in Łodź, erected along with the extension of Karol Scheibler’s cotton plant at the beginning of the 1870s, rescue excavations were conducted under the supervision of archaeologists Maciej Milczarek and Zbigniew Rybacki. They concerned the remains of an ice house built for the estate general store (including a grocery) called Konsum. Its preserved form is a result of a few construction stages completed in quick succession. During the third one (between 1883/1884 and 1889) the ice house we are interested in was built. It was not big as its capacity was approximately 100 cubic metres, and its structure was rather typical of larger industrial ice houses, with the upper (aboveground) chamber used as an ice warehouse, and the lower (underground) chamber serving as the store’s cold storage. Most probably, it was not used for long, however, there is no data that would allow to determine the time of its liquidation.

Infrastructure Is A Key Factor For The Success Of An Entrepreneurial Business: A Case Study Of General Store Business In Gulistan-E-Jauhar, Karachi

The part which entrepreneurs play in the economic growth of any country needs no elucidation. Having started new businesses- by utilizing their skills and knowledge- they give proliferation to new ideas in the market and reach the right decisions that serve as vehicles of prosperity and enhancement of the business. The global quest for achieving permanence in economic development and acceleration of social progress has found a new light in entrepreneurial activities. A lot of proponents such as burgeoning urbanization and industrialization, coupled with the prevalence of social legislation as well as general awareness and entrepreneurial education on formal grounds have set the stage for the ever-increasing omnipresence of novel entrepreneurial ventures in various economies across the globe. This study emphasizes the need for adequate infrastructure for an entrepreneurial business, which is a key factor for the success of an entrepreneurial business. Employing a well-developed and verified scale, data collection from 100 respondents was done on a convenience basis. All of the respondents amongst whom the questionnaires were distributed to different Kariyana and general stores located in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi and descriptive statistics were applied on the relevant variables such as the importance of infrastructure, location of a business, positioning of products in a general store, similarly, use of other business techniques such as educated and trained salespersons, following to proper timing for the business, nice dealing with customers, etc. This research article aims at contributing to the existing academic literature present on the importance of infrastructure required for the better results of an entrepreneurial business. This study shall assist government regulators in making informed decisions while addressing the need and importance of adequate infrastructure for Pakistani entrepreneurs, which shall lead to more effective and well-planned initiatives, which can help not only to improve the performance of entrepreneurial ventures but also to curb and eventually eradicate poverty from Pakistan.

Customer Relationship and Sales Management using Data Mining Techniques

A general store is a destination for customers to buy everything they require in a single spot. The Manager is responsible for administering and making decisions for developing and running the store. But it is a heavy task for a single person to make valuable decisions that do not affect the business. So, in this project, data mining techniques are applied to the store’s transactional data to help the manager make decisions. We use RFM, Recency Frequency and Monetary segmentation method and classification algorithms to classify the customers into loyal and not-so-loyal customers to make predictions based on the data of the valuable customers. The customers who are loyal to the store are selected and their data is used for further analytics. Association mining technique to obtain the products which are most likely to be bought together and other data mining and visualization techniques to display the valuable knowledge mined from the dataset. Then we cluster the products based on the product’s important keywords and then the customers are further classified by finding the number of products bought from the previously found clusters.

BUYING AND DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS OF GOODS FOR KITCHEN BY THE PURCHASHING PART (Case Study at Kuta Central Park Hotel)

This study aims to determine the application of goods and distribution purchases for kitchen by purchasing department at Kuta Central Park Hotel. Data was collected by interview, observation, and documentation with the help of note-taking techniques. Furthermore, the data was analyzed by qualitative descriptive analysis method. The results showed that the purchase of goods for the kitchen at Central Park Kuta Hotel uses two ways. First, through the daily market list. Purchasing goods through this process is a type of item that does not last long enough and requires special storage areas, such as: dairy products, meat and poultry, herbs and spice, seafood, vegetables and fruits, ice cream, process meat, pastry and bakery, syrup, juice food, and also groceries. Second, namely through purchase requisition submitted by the storekeeper section for inventory at the general store. The type of goods purchased through this process is a type of groceries that can last more than one year. The flow of goods distribution from the general store to the kitchen starts with using the form store requisition made by the kitchen, then submitted to the storekeeper. The storekeeper issues the item in accordance with the request and a copy of the form is given to the kitchen staff who receive the item for review.

PERAN GENERAL STORE SECTION DALAM MENDUKUNG MUTU PELAYANAN USAHA HOTEL

General Store is one of the important sections in Hotels that are included in accounting Deparment. The general store is a storage place for all operational items of the hotel. Each hotel makes its own eforts to keep the inventory of the hotel which will become the guest necessities. This research aims to know what eforts are made to maintain the quality of hotel operational goods through the role of general store section at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. Is in accordance with the standard or does not give special treatment to the operational goods (ignored). The research method used is qualitative descriptive method by collecting data through interview. Interviews were conducted with general store staf, cost control staf, and trainee of food beverage at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. The results of the research show that The Hotel Phoenix Yogyakarta made positive eforts that can reduce damage to goods stored in the general store and always ensure the goods that come to the guests in good condition, so that guests will feel satisfied.

PERAN GERERAL STORE SECTION DALAM MENJAMIN KEPUASAN PELANGGAN DI THE PHOENIX HOTEL YOGYAKARTA

General Store is one of the important sections in Hotels that are included in Accounting Deparment. The General store is a storage place for all operational items of the hotel. Each hotel makes its own eforts to keep the inventory of the hotel which will become the guest necessities. This research aims to know what eforts are made to maintain the quality of hotel operational goods through the role of General Store Special at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta. Is in accordance with the standard or does not give special treatment to the operational goods (ignored). The research method used is qualitative descriptive method by collecting data through interview. Interviews were conducted with general store staf f Cost Control staf Trainee Food eeverage at The Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta.The results of the research show that The Hotel Phoenix Yogyakarta made positive eforts that can reduce damage to goods stored in the general store and always ensure the goods that come to the guests in good condition. So that guests will feel satisfied. Guest satisfaction impacts on the hotel's reputation