Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 9 Issue 6

The 1980s in retailing: A prospective view Part 1

David Walters

Earlier this year (RDM, March/April 1981), David Walters examined the 1970s in retailing. It was a strikingly hectic decade, with endemic inflation and the energy crisis of 1974…

Telspar: A Viewdata system for independent grocers

Joshua Bamfield, MA (Oxon) MA (Oxon) , M. Phil

Telspar Viewdata provides members of the Spar independent voluntary grocery group with a two‐way exchange of information — at least as far as those served by wholesaler James Hall…

Personal computers for the retailer

Eric Foster

Personal computers are most commonly thought of as consumer products, but now they are being developed for use by many different classes of retailer; in fact they have found…

Marketing problems in the German food trade

Rudiger Schoneweg

The level of competition in the German food trade is very high, as it is in this country. But the structure of the German food trade is very different, since they do not have our…

Controlling the fleet: An effective approach to vehicle management

How do you measure existing fleet performance, and improve it by better scheduling techniques? How do you exercise effective control over both driver and vehicle? These were some…

Materials handling: New concepts for established equipment

Geoffrey Butcher

What's new in materials handling? While there appears to be nothing startlingly revolutionary about the equipment in use the “whole system” approach has been developed to produce…