Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 5 Issue 4

SHOPLIFTING: How much do we really know?

Ray Davey

Nobody knows with any accuracy what is stolen from retail outlets each year, nor precisely the breakdown between staff and customer theft. And what about losses at the back door…

SHOPPING TRENDS: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RETAILER?

H.G. McAfee

There are trends out of town centres and into town centres, trends towards economies of scale and trends towards the small, trends towards the motor car and towards…

Selecting POS data equipment: A dilemma for retail management

David Walters

Most retail managements at some time or other must consider the application of EDP equipment at the point of sale in retailing. This article suggests a strategy for companies…

THE FUTURE FOR TEXTILE WHOLESALERS IN WESTERN EUROPE

dr. H.J. Kuhlmeijer

The rapidly declining importance of the textile industry in western Europe as a result of increased textile imports is just one of the factors which will determine the future of…

Food retailing in the USA: What are the implications for the UK?

Geoff Lambert, BA (Econ) MIGD BA (Econ) , MIGD

Rates of inflation, wages as an operational cost, shrinkage, supermarket closures — all these aspects of the USA grocery scene are discussed in this article and compared with the…

An involvement with inventory: THE SCOPE FOR THE COMPUTER

Dave Powell

All the evidence from retail companies who have invested in recent years in the computer field is that it is the inventory‐intensive businesses that can benefit the most. This…

Retail planning and the small business in Holland

David BA Kirby, Ph.D.

The structure of the retail trade in Holland has been compared to that in the UK; certainly they have the same apparent dominance by declining independents and a relatively large…

French help for the INDEPENDENT TRADER

John A. Dawson

In 1972 a Bill passed by the French Parliament inaugurated a scheme to give help to elderly and long‐experienced small retailers, in the form of direct grants and pension schemes…

Tesco and Sainsbury: Fraser and Debenhams

Two pairs of companies with similar trading patterns are discussed in this financial feature — Tesco and Sainsbury, Fraser and Debenham. Progress of the last two groups indicates…