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Title: New retail versus traditional retail in e-commerce : channel establishment, price competition, and consumer recognition
Authors: Wang, X 
Ng, CT 
Issue Date: Jul-2020
Source: Annals of operations research, July 2020, v. 291, no. 44228, p. 921-937
Abstract: The concept “new retail” in e-commerce is to establish an offline channel and integrate it with the online retail channel. The development of new retail encounters three main problems: locations of the offline stores, the price competition with the traditional online retail, and the difficulty in consumer recognition in the two channels. In this paper, we present a duopoly model consisting of a new retail firm and an online firm, which sell the same product in two periods. The two firms compete for the market share using the behavior-based pricing (BBP), which means that in the second period each firm offers different prices to consumers with different purchasing histories/behaviors in the first period. We also solve the benchmark pricing model, where the histories/behaviors are not considered. The results of this paper provide valuable insights to the development of new retail in e-commerce. In the Nash equilibrium, each price of the new retail firm is higher than the corresponding price of the online firm due to a higher channel cost for the offline stores and high-speed deliveries. Under certain condition, the new retail firm will establish an offline channel with a larger hassle cost, which is a measure of the easiness of reaching the offline stores by the consumers, in the BBP model than that in the benchmark model. Interestingly, the difficulty in consumer recognition results in that the new retail firm occupies more market share and may obtain higher profit.
Keywords: Behavior-based pricing
Consumer recognition
New retail
Price competition
Publisher: Springer
Journal: Annals of operations research 
ISSN: 0254-5330
EISSN: 1572-9338
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-018-2994-9
Rights: © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Annals of Operations Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2994-9.
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