Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 15 Issue 2

DPP takes off with new technology: European standards to be harmonised

Donald Harris

The concept of Direct Product Profitability (DPP) is not new. The idea of being able to establish the individual contribution to profitability of each product by identifying costs…

SUNDAY TRADING: Is partial deregulation the answer?

Michael A Clements

Since the 1960s there have been over twenty attempts at changing the ambiguous and confusing 1950 Shops Act; the most spectacular failure was the most recent attempt, the Shops…

Debenhams lights up Oxford Street

David Sands

People who have been talking for years, with doom‐laden relish, about the death of the department store should take a trip to London's Oxford Street and take a look at the new…

Retailers and Bankers: Making the partnership work

Austin Bendall, Angus Hislop

The provision of retail financial services necessarily involves co‐operation between retailers and bankers; bearing in mind the long drawn‐out saga of EFTPoS, this has not been…

Marketing in UK retailing

Nigel Piercy

In the first of two RDM articles Dr Nigel Piercy discusses the position of marketing in retail firms in the UK. This article examines the findings of a recent survey of the…