Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 15 Issue 6
Table of contents
Creating long term strategy for retailing
Penelope OdyStrategic marketing is something which, until recently, few retailers indulged in or even understood. Now the ability to make far‐reaching strategic decisions on the future…
America's shopping centres A mid‐life crisis?
David RogersThe process of suburbanisation produced the great flowering of the American shopping centre during the 1950s and 60s, although they started even earlier. They evolved into three…
British Telecom's new retail outlets: Decision support in action
New High Street outlets are being set up by British Telecom to carry the wide range of telephones and accessories now coming on to the market. A decision support system called…
A new image for Bijenkorf at Utrecht
David SandsThe Bijenkorf group of department stores in Holland has a unique significance for Dutch people, evoking sentiments of childhood nostalgia and security. Not that they have always…
Financial services: the retailers' role: Looking to the year 2000
Jessica AlexanderIf there was one sure thing that emerged from a Financial Times conference, held in London in October, on retail financial services, it is that the whole sector is in a state of…
Shop location analysis: A look at current techniques
David RogersEven with all the work that has been going on in shop location over the past few years, too many retailers are still not sufficiently thorough and organised in their location…
GUSCO opens new distribution centre: New automated high bay warehouse
Chris RatcliffeAn impressive high bay warehouse with an operating height of 13.6m is the focal point of the new GUSCO distribution centre at Eccles, near Manchester. It combines human resources…