TY - JOUR AB - Quickly responding to customer needs has become a major priority for retail businesses such as grocery operations. Customer satisfaction is an absolute for staying competitive in these retail operations. This paper discusses efficient consumer response (ECR) as a supply chain strategy in grocery businesses by analyzing the adoption of ECR strategy by five major grocery operations in US markets. Furthermore, a management action plan is presented for future adoption of ECR strategy by similar business operations. VL - 11 IS - 4 SN - 0956-4233 DO - 10.1108/09564230010355386 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09564230010355386 AU - Hoffman Joyce M. AU - Mehra Satish PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - Efficient consumer response as a supply chain strategy for grocery businesses T2 - International Journal of Service Industry Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 365 EP - 373 Y2 - 2024/05/10 ER -