Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 11 Issue 6

How to achieve successful regeneration: Burton, Debenhams and Tesco reveal all (or nearly all)

Edward McFadyen

In October financial analysts Capel‐Cure Myers had the intriguing idea of putting on a seminar centred largely around the stories of three major retail companies — Burton…

University Education in retailing:: Are the opportunities there?

Peter J McGoldrick

For generations retailing has had to fight against its image as a second‐class occupation. Successive governments have tended to regard it as less important than manufacturing…

Generics: Passing fad or permanent feature?

Robert M. Pieczka

In 1976 Carrefour introduced “produits libres” in France, and since then the generics concept has spread rapidly. Various ranges have been launched, and they predominantly…

The Transaction Telephone Part 2: Market related aspects

Anthony J. Zeilinger

The first part of this article, published in our September/October issue, looked at the way credit card automation — and in particular the transaction telephone — had developed…

Asda at Beckton

Sue Sharpies

In east London at any rate the synonym for superstore must be Asda. Two have recently opened within a few miles of each other in London's Docklands. The store at Beckton is doing…

The fight against dishonesty

John Vann

Employers like to feel that their staff are loyal and trustworthy and may therefore overlook the need for insurance against loss incurred through employees' fraud. In the past…