Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 10 Issue 3

The case for EFTS

John V Marti, Anthony J Zeilinger

Do we want electronic funds transfer? Can we afford it? What's wrong with existing payment systems — cash, cheques and credit cards? These are some of the starting‐off points in a…

Superstore boost for inner city areas

Stuart Eliot

The search for new approaches to inner city problems has been stepped up following the recent disturbances in Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side, but clearly (here is no simple…

Training for data processing in retailing

Elizabeth Morris

Are staff in retail companies being adequately trained to cope with the increasingly complex demands being made upon them by the computer and data processing techniques? The DITB…

Scanning — The trials and the triumphs

Sue Sharples

On 25 January Tesco, carrying the beacon for others to follow, opened its first “live” scanning store, in Edmonton, and 15 more are planned to open over the next year. Other…

Energy saving at Tesco

Tesco, who give awards to local authorities for energy conservation are now winners themselves of a GEM (Gas Energy Management) award for a project at their headquarters at…

Inventory Control: how to reduce stockholding costs

Leslie Chadwick MBA FCCA Cert Ed, Alan Waddington MBA FCA

De‐stocking has been a major feature of the retail scene over the past year or so. Nonetheless stockholding costs are still a major headache; the authors offer some tips as to how…

PDM costs now 12% of industry's revenue: National survey highlights shift in expenditure

Brian N. McKibbin

Physical distribution costs now account for at least 12% of industry's total sales revenue; there is also a substantial shift in distribution expenditure among the principal cost…

The impact of EPOS on distribution systems

Per‐Olov Sparen

The benefits of bar‐coding are now rapidly moving from the retail sphere into the warehousing and distribution environment. In Europe there will be a symbol called DUS…