Bulk professionals ’ practices: between evolutions and renewal

Les pratiques des professionnels du vrac: entre évolutions et renouveau

Maud Chever (), Elisa Monnot, Fanny Reniou () and Lucie Sirieix
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Maud Chever: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fanny Reniou: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Selling unpacked products or in bulk is a mode of distribution that currently experiences a renewed interest. Based on social practices theories, a framework, which is generally used at the individuals' level, this communication aims at understanding how bulk professionals' practices evolves and are renewed. It uses an ongoing qualitative study, based on interviews of distributors and suppliers but also on a systematic professional literature review. It highlights the material elements (such as specific shop-design and merchandising), competencies and meanings, which are associated with this kind of distribution. It also helps to understand the origins of barriers to its development in order to overcome them.

Keywords: sustainable development; packaging; consumption of unpacked products; retailing; practices theories; développement durable; emballage; consommation en vrac; distribution; théories des pratiques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10-14
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Published in 23. Colloque Etienne Thil, Oct 2020, Paris, France

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