• DocumentCode
    2658866
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    A comparison of the Zippo lighter sales between real outlets and online shop

  • Author

    Jiangping Chen ; Ying Cai ; Dongri Cong ; Qin Zhong ; Yingshan Luo

  • Author_Institution
    City Coll., Bus. Inf. Anal. Lab., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • Volume
    7
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-18 April 2010
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    This article makes a comparison research to the sales data of Zippo lighter between three real outlets in China and an online shop on Taobao.com. And it analyzes the sales quantities, revenues and consumption characters between the two different markets. It is showed that the online shop sales much more than real outlets but at relative lower prices. It is hoped that these analysis results will help real and online shop to do business better.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; retail data processing; sales management; Taobao.com; Zippo lighter sales; consumption characters analysis; online shop sales; real outlets; revenues analysis; sales quantities analysis; Advertising; Cities and towns; Costs; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Laboratories; Manufacturing; Marketing and sales; Satellites; Zippo; comparison; consumption characters; online shop; real outlet;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6347-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCET.2010.5485915
  • Filename
    5485915