Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 3 Issue 6
Table of contents
Asda's cost‐cutting pays dividend: An exercise in racking, caging and scheduled delivery
Asda's impressive progress over the past few years has now brought them to the stage where they are achieving—from a relatively few 46 stores—4.3% of total grocery turnover…
The use of computers in supermarket groups: A close look at the Sainsbury and Tesco systems
Ron NewmanComputers have been used in food retailing groups for the past 13–14 years. Companies such as Sainsbury and Tesco Stores began by implementing distribution and basic accounting…
Opportunities in management training
W J PhilpottEach alternate year the Distributive Trades Education and Training Council arranges a conference for University Careers Advisory Officers. The purpose of the conference is to…
Retail floorspace: Assessing the need for shops
David ThorpeA great deal of effort is devoted in planning exercises to balance the amount of new shopping floor space which can be permitted in one centre rather than another. David Thorpe…
Fast food‐ An industry in difficulties
Roger CoxThe progression from fish and chips to fried chicken spans an era of radical social change—from smoky street corner fish and chip shops to the fluorescent and chromium American…
Food supermarketing: A new approach
P.K. HalsteadA more simplified assortment, closer attention to the product, an emphasis on personnel management—these are the essential factors to be borne in mind in operating food…
Cash & Carry: Wholesaling in hardware
John A. FoxCash flow, management's current pressing problem, affects the cash and carry business rather less than most—for obvious reasons. The Stern Osmat group is the largest wholesale…
The Industrial Society ‐ Its work in retailing
Tina TietjenThe Industrial Society‐in spite of its name—has for many years been concerned with the retail trade, and now has a thriving retail department headed up by Tina Tietjen. Some very…
Book Reviews
Financial Survey of Major U.K. Department Stores published by Financial Analysis Group Limited. 114pp. £50.
PDM: Where does it go from here?
Michael MA Clay, FIWSOM FRGSAt various times certain functions in industry become not merely fashionable, but exert considerable dominance over other functions. This was the case at one time with production;…
Distribution in a most un‐Common Market: The problems of going into Europe
In many ways the Common Market is most uncommon; national tastes, marketing methods, and of course distribution techniques are all very different. This article looks particularly…
Financial modelling in retail organisations
Gil JonesNot very much work has so far been done by retail organisations in the building of computer‐based financial models, but it is neither complex nor necessarily expensive. Financial…
The catalogue mail order business
Retail shares have performed fairly creditably against the market. Best of all are food retailing shares. While the FT index at the beginning of October was some 11% from its peak…