TY - JOUR AB - The formulation of a retail strategy involves defining the external areas, such as markets and competition; and internal sectors, which include finance, merchandising and logistics. The company must then decide on whether to adopt a market‐based or a competitive‐based strategy; it should then select an internal factor as the key base from which to mount its method of achieving the objective. VL - 2 IS - 3 SN - 0307-2363 DO - 10.1108/eb017792 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017792 AU - Walters David PY - 1974 Y1 - 1974/01/01 TI - Creating a strategy for profitability T2 - Retail and Distribution Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 36 EP - 40 Y2 - 2024/09/21 ER -