Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 4 Issue 3

The convenience store phenomenon: The rebirth of America's small shop

David A BA Kirby, PhD

In America, as in other societies where volume‐trading and out‐of‐town retailing are established features of the distributive system, the problems of the small retail unit have…

THE ROLE AND STRUCTURE OF DISTRIBUTION: PART 2: SOCIAL INFRA‐STRUCTURE

Jan de Somogyi

In our last issue we published the first half of this paper, originally prepared for the Distributive Trades EDC by Jan de Somogyi. The first section discussed marketing…

THE CONTAINER REVOLUTION: TEN YEARS ON

Martin T. Slijper

It is now ten years since the containerisation principle arrived in Britain, as yet another innovation from the United States. But the past decade has shown that containers are…

Variable working hours in retail outlets

Susan Walker

Retailing has seen a great many changes over the past few years. Yet one of the most fundamental changes in personnel policy in many other sectors—flexible working hours—has…