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Danica Antonia Widarta, Danica (author)Real estate is one of the highest expenditures in almost every business. External disruptions, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, created a significant shift in business operations. This disruption accentuated the importance of resilience as a fundamental operational factor against uncertainties. Corporate real estate (CRE) industries need...master thesis 2021
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Amit, Boaz (author)Changing consumer shopping trends in the last two decades and the impact of COVID-19 in 2020-2021, has led to more structural vacancy in supportive monofunctional retail areas. Since supportive monofunctional retail areas are less resilient on the long term compared to retail areas in city centres, integrated redevelopment of such areas is...master thesis 2021
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SUN, YICHENG (author)Bricolage is a way of thinking, researching and designing. From the perspective of architect, we build our realm using the existing constructing logic and limited materials, to make something new from the old, which seems to be a low-key but efficient way for renovation of Passage de Molenpoort. Date back to 1972, the popularity of the American...master thesis 2021
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Astidira Apti, Astidira (author)This graduation project takes place in a vacant heritage building that was a former V&D department store building in the center of Leiden. The studio begins with collective research on the Spatial Building Typology research of the former V&D department stores buildings. The main individual research and design strategy are based on Petzet...master thesis 2021
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Difrancesco, Rita Maria (author), van Schilt, Isabelle M. (author), Winkenbach, Matthias (author)The explosive growth of e-commerce creates a need for increasingly responsive omni-channel fulfillment capabilities, which raises new challenges in inventory management and order fulfillment for retailers. In response to these challenges, many retailers attempt to establish so-called ship-from-store concepts, which leverage their physical...journal article 2021
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Schoenmakers, Storm (author)The current market conditions in the retail sector are rapidly changing. This makes it hard for retail areas to conform to consumer needs. This is especially the case for challenged inner cities that are trying to cope with these changes for the physical demand of retail space. This constant market change and current state of retail areas...master thesis 2020
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Bonhof, Stefan (author)Performing tasks in dynamic environments is still an open challenge in robotics. To be able to perform a task reliably in such scenarios, the state of the world has to be continuously monitored. In this context, most state-of-the-art perception methods focus on the recognition and classification of individual objects. However, these methods...master thesis 2020
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Luiten, Ties (author)The aim of this project was to propose several explorative experiential retail concepts which could strengthen and/or induce the value of the physical retail environment for millennials within developing omnichannel strategies. Additionally, such experiences desirably enhanced the bond between consumer, brand, and product through immersive...master thesis 2020
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Holtz, Georg (author), Schnülle, Christian (author), Yadack, Malcolm (author), Friege, J.M. (author), Jensen, T. (author), Thier, Pablo (author), Viebahn, Peter (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author)The German Energiewende is a deliberate transformation of an established industrial economy towards a nearly CO2-free energy system accompanied by a phase out of nuclear energy. Its governance requires knowledge on how to steer the transition from the existing status quo to the target situation (transformation knowledge). The energy system is,...journal article 2020
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van Eijkern, Adrien (author)Retailers must adapt their activity to comply with the evolving demands of their customers. Increasing demand on order-fulfilment services, along with determination to keep high service levels, have raised the problem of space scarcity at retailer stores to keep and process picked customer orders. Congestion is then experienced in store order...master thesis 2019
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Gu, Nien-Hua (author)The thesis addresses the implementation challenges of Machine Learning (ML) for merchandisers in the scenario of digitalization of retailing, and proposes a product-service design as the solution. The digitalization of retailing is defined as an on-going process to integrate Internet-connected digital technologies into interfaces between...master thesis 2019
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van de Mosselaar, Maud (author)Despite the rise of digitalization, and consequently e-commerce, the physical fashion store remains relevant in the retail environment. Still generating almost all sales. However, stores are shifting from a place to buy to a place to be. Where experiences are more important than products. Inevitably, to fulfil customers’ needs and differentiate...master thesis 2019
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Bakker, Annet (author)Lighting can have a significant influence on product appearance, and therefore on product perception. Multiple studies showed this influence of retail lighting (e.g. Baker et al., 1992; Quartier et al., 2014b). However, existing research into the influence of lighting on product perception is somewhat insufficient, therefore the goal was to gain...master thesis 2019
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Verseput, Sander (author)It is the year 2019 and the Dutch economy is flourishing. However, the retail sector is still in a ‘re- inventing phase’. The popularity of e-commerce is increasing and Dutch shopping districts are continuously changing. This affects the profitability of both retailers and retail investors. Considering that the Dutch population is aging, people...master thesis 2019
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Huizenga, Nick (author)From the birth of consumerism in the early 18th century shopping as a leisure activity has been an integral part of our everyday lives. Its physical manifestations have a great resonance within our cities and the built environment. Throughout history retail typologies have constantly been adapted and reinvented around major shifts within our...master thesis 2019
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Hermes, Nick (author)If brands that operate in the digital context do not start building their own front-end AI enabled channels, they risk falling behind on competition (White, Addison & Fritz, 2018). But as these (often traditional) organisations implement AI-systems in customer-facing practices, it slowly becomes the new front-office brand ambassadors of the...master thesis 2019
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Coster, Dennis (author)In the period following the start of the economic crisis retail vacancy has steadily increased in many countries around the world. A frequently mentioned cause of the increase in retail vacancy is the growing popularity of online shopping. In various scientific publications, scholars have addressed the possible future implications of online...master thesis 2019
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Meijboom, Jurriaan (author)Food waste is an increasing problem worldwide. Around one third of all produced food is estimated to end up as waste. This has big environmental and economic consequences. In literature, little is known about the causes of waste, its key performance indicators and how to reduce it. Some root causes were found, but none were quantitatively...master thesis 2019
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Howell, Bryan F. (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author)The colour of the background on which products are presented may affect their perceived attractiveness. In order to find out on which type of background various fresh food products look most attractive, we presented five different vegetables (tomato, carrot, yellow bell pepper, eggplant, mushroom) on five different backgrounds with neutral...journal article 2019
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Nieuweboer, Helen (author)The effects of the linear economy on our environment are becoming more visible every day. Governments act by introducing sustainability related laws and legislation, stimulating companies to make their products ready for a circular economy. This project aimed at using the benefits of the Internet of Things to design a circular supermarket...master thesis 2018