International Journal of Physical Distribution: Volume 4 Issue 2

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A Manufacturer's View on Servicing

Roger Jobson

In the context of a brief look at the satisfaction of family grocery needs in the remainder of this decade, which should by now be fairly predictable, and more speculatively…

A Retailer's View on Servicing

Richard Beale

The scene in the 1980s will be, as it has been in the 1960s and early 1970s, a changing one. Retailing is dynamic: the consumer and the economic environment are influencing each…

Emerging Retail Units and their Servicing Problems

David Walters

There are a number of environmental pressures working to develop a pattern for future grocery retailing. Urban congestion is forcing re‐development of city centres to exclude the…

Out of Hours Deliveries

R.J. Banister

The purpose of my paper is not to provide tailor‐made solutions to the problems of making deliveries out of hours but to describe the experience that was gained from two out of…

The Potential for EDP in Distribution

B.A. French

The past few years have seen a very marked downward trend in the costs of data processing equipment, particularly for the “heart” of such systems—the logic circuits and storage…

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ISSN:

0020-7527

Online date, start – end:

1971 – 1977

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid