Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 1 Issue 2
Table of contents
THE HOME FREEZER COMES INTO ITS OWN
Graham KempIn this special market analysis report, we take a look at the burgeoning home freezer business — an estimated 11 per cent home ownership by the end of this year. This has…
ENTER THE ELECTRONIC CASH REGISTER
Ralph TowseyThe electronic cash register has arrived on the scene, and is starting to take over operations formerly performed mechanically. By treating it as an integral part of an…
PROPERTY IN STORE
Robert LangtonThe past decade has seen a tremendous change among retailers in their attitudes towards their property assets. Many changes had been mooted but it was only towards the end of the…
FOOD SHOPPING: YESTERDAY and TODAY
John D. SainsburyRetailing in this country has developed as a set of responses to changing social conditions and the changing needs of the community, and this can be seen most clearly in food…
A DISCOUNT AT EVERY CORNER
The controversy which has been raging among planners, retailers and property developers over the last two or three years, concerning hypermarkets, has obscured one very important…
Who needs a Wages Council?
J.A. GreenwoodWhat is the role of Wages Councils? Is their function as a means of protection for the lowest‐paid now outdated? On the basis of research into a number of food shops, the author…
From Voluntary Groups to Franchise
Marc GoguetThe French voluntary group, Catena, dealing in hardware and leisure goods, was founded as long ago as 1953; it has about 1,000 shops throughout France. It was not until 1970…
THE INDEPENDENT STORE IN AMERICA
James R. WilliamsIn our last issue Professor Hollander looked at the American retail scene and discussed the role of the larger organisation, particularly in relation to such factors as…
What's happening to the GROCERY SYMBOL GROUPS ?
Bob MerseyBack in the palmy days of midsummer 1970, the grocery voluntary groups scored a notable victory. Nielsen figures showed that, for the first time, symbol groups continued to gain…
Belgium:: THE IMPACT OF SHOPPING CENTRES
J.P. De BodtThere are not many shopping centres in Belgium but such as there are have an imaginative approach to the question of promotion. One of them puts on a major cultural exhibition…