Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 6 Issue 6
Table of contents
The grocery price war: CRISIS OR PROGRESS?
J.A. Beaumont, G. LambertIs the price war in grocery a crisis which will eventually be overcome so that the grocery trade may revert to its previous state of higher margins and comfortable trading? The…
Dublin's three shopping centres
A.J. ParkerIn our March/April issue Dr Parker wrote about the emergence of discount grocery shopping in Dublin. Now he turns his attention to shopping centres, and in particular to the MEPC…
Distributed processing at Birds Eye
Tony JonesThe recent arrival of the programmable microcomputer has been found fortuitous by Birds Eye, who are using it as part of their policy of distributed processing, and specifically…
LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING: Planning and optimising investment in stores
Martin SimmonsMore attention is now being devoted to the contribution which market research can make to the location, development and appraisal of individual stores. This is a result of trends…
The retailer as developer: Financing and planning a district shopping centre
Sam ChippindaleWhen a retailer takes on the responsibility for a development within which his own outlet will be the dominant feature, he must, of course, be satisfied that he is investing in a…
DISTRIBUTION: THE CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE TRENDS
Wendell M. Stewart“The current state of the art” was how Wendell Stewart chose to describe his theme when he spoke recently in London, and in the hands of such a practitioner distribution is an art…
HOW TO RAISE PROFITABILITY IN DISTRIBUTION
John SussamsIn discursive style, John Sussams looks at the elements of the distribution system that really matter — the vehicles, the goods, the customers, and the drivers, and outlines what…