Efficiency, productivity gains, and the size of Brazilian supermarkets

Melo, Felipe Luiz Neves Bezerra de; Sampaio, Raquel Menezes Bezerra; Sampaio, Luciano Menezes Bezerra

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.12.016

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“…The variables used in this work were selected from reference studies (Souza et al, 2010;Melo et al, 2018) and Sonza & Ceretta (2008) and Figueiredo & Mello (2009) and are the following: a) Output variable: gross sales. Even though Angelo & Silveira (1997) warn that other variables could be considered as output (such as the number of commercial transactions, the value added and the gross margin), it was considered that all these factors may be correlated with gross sales and are more difficult to obtain.…”

Section: Methodological Proceduresmentioning

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Performance of supermarkets in Santa Catarina: an analysis of small and medium-sized units

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The retail supermarket sector is one of the most important in the third sector. Besides being one of that most generates direct and indirect jobs, it is one of the first to capture changes in consumer behavior. Given the strong competition and constant evolution of the sector, it is necessary to improve techniques for individual performance measurement of the networks and the construction of parameters of relative comparison between the units. The aim of this article is to analyze the efficiency of a 31 supermarkets sample in Santa Catarina, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The variables used in the investigation were gross sales, the number of employees, sales area and number of checkout's in the period of 2014 and 2015. The results pointed out a low percentage of units at maximum efficiency for the two periods analyzed. Another relevant finding was that the variables that presented a mismatch to reach the maximum efficiency of the units was the “Sales area (m2)” and “number of employees“, suggesting the existence of idle structure capacity.

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Section: Methodological Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of supermarkets in Santa Catarina: an analysis of small and medium-sized units

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“…The literature records a significant number of studies evaluating the food‐retailing efficiency at a firm level (Melo et al, 2018; Perrigot & Barros, 2008; Sellers‐Rubio & Mas‐Ruiz, 2006). The majority of these empirical papers uses the benchmarking DEA method to extract efficiency scores.…”

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An empirical analysis of evaluating the operational and economic efficiency of retail stores under an adverse operating environment

Aggelopoulos¹,

Lampropoulos

Paraschi³

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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This paper evaluates the relative efficiency of 83 food retail stores of a major Greek Supermarket network using monthly panel data that relates to an extended period of deep economic recession (2012–2013). We highlight the importance of the comparative analysis of operational and economic perspectives of the retail stores' efficiency, as they fully capture the real conditions in very competitive and dynamic recessionary environments given that retail stores are interested in minimizing costs while maximizing sales and profits. Efficiency measurements and comparisons led to the identification of benchmark stores and problematic ones thus leading to a series of management actions.

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“…More recently, Xavier et al (2015) for a set of 26 stores of a women’s retail service brand operating in Portugal. Neves Bezerra de Melo et al (2018) evaluated the efficiency and scale of the Brazilian supermarket sector. One common point of these studies is that the retailers are always assumed to operate under a decentralised regime rather than under a centralised regime.…”

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Application of centralised DEA in an automobile parts retail network in Taiwan

Yang

2020

IJRDM

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to address three managerial issues in a retail network under a centralised regime, including resource allocation, expansion and downsizing. In particular, this study investigates how to optimise resource allocation across retailers and how to decide the optimal size of a retail network for an empirical case, where 27 retailers belong to an automobile parts supplier in Taiwan.Design/methodology/approachThe centralised data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is used to optimise resource allocation among retailers and to seek the possibility of either an expansion and/or downsizing for a retail network.FindingsThe case company knows the best way to (re)allocate its available resources and (re)arrange the outcome goals for its own retailers. The 27 retailers are assigned specific targets for input and output adjustments to become Pareto or technically efficient units. Besides, an experiment is designed to measure how changing the number of retailers affects the group efficiency of the retail network. To keep the current aggregated output level of the retail network, the centralised supplier needs at least 24 retailers. However, the retail network with 37 retailers can achieve maximal group efficiency.Originality/valueCentralised resource allocation is an inherent feature of most supplier-retailer relationships, where the supplier is usually a central planner with the power to allocate available resources among its own retailers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to assess retail performance under a centralised regime.

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Efficiency, productivity gains, and the size of Brazilian supermarkets

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Performance of supermarkets in Santa Catarina: an analysis of small and medium-sized units

Performance of supermarkets in Santa Catarina: an analysis of small and medium-sized units

An empirical analysis of evaluating the operational and economic efficiency of retail stores under an adverse operating environment

Application of centralised DEA in an automobile parts retail network in Taiwan

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