Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 4 Issue 4

The changing technology of data capture: Improving the quality of management information

Gil Jones

Dr. Gil Jones has been carrying out a research programme into the ways data can be captured, transmitted and used to provide retailers with improved management information. The…

Co∼operation between merchant and accountant: A study of their motivations and aims

Norman A. Highton ACMA

Two key figures in any retail organisation are the merchandising executive and the account, and the successful functioning of each of these is crucial to any business. Yet in…

THE RETAILER AND HIS VITAL ROLE IN THE ECONOMY

Redmayne

In recent years there has been a significant change in the pattern of relationships within the economy: between the disposal of the output of British manufacturers abroad and in…

The day of the discounter: The impact of discount stores on two Welsh towns

D.G. Watkin, M.E. Joseph

Discount food stores opened within days of each other in Welshpool and Porthcawl earlier this year. How have established retailers been affected in these two very difficult towns…

Training in Distribution: HOW TO ASSESS ITS VALUE

Stephen JS Hart

The problem of how to assess the value of training in terms of its effects on turnover and profitability is not a new one for retail management. Certain specific…

The role of warehousing

Brian McKibbin

Rambling warehouses whose mysterious contents were a tightly kept secret of the storeman and his acolytes are fortunately a thing of the past. Modern single storey warehouses now…

PINPOINTING THE PROBLEM

Michael Clay

Sooner or later every manager is faced with finding the route out of a difficult dilemma; choosing the solution which will cure the company's ills — not complicate them. All too…