International Journal of Physical Distribution: Volume 7 Issue 1

Marketing Logistics and Consumerism

Gordon Wills

Consumerism today, like trades unionism some century ago, is a pre‐dominantly middle class concern. It provides an avenue for the articulate who are dis‐satisfied with the…

Consumerism and Technological Change: Tne Case of the Automatic Checkout

Gordon F. Bloom

In 1966, the Kroger Company, America's third largest supermarket chain invited a group of equipment manufacturers to attend a seminar devoted to the subject of technological needs…

Marketing and Distribution are not Separate

Robert Bartels

At the three‐quarter point in a century of social and economic development in which marketing has played a major role, it is timely to consider the direction which its further…

Distribution in a Developing Economy—Some Emerging Trends and Implications for Strategy

Madhav P. Kacker

Several interesting events are taking place in the socio‐economic scene of India which may seriously affect the distribution system operating in an organisation. A discerning…

Problems of Goods Movement in Urban Areas: The Chichester Study

C.G Turner, G.F. Blundell

For more than a decade the number and size of freight vehicles on British roads has been growing. A broad indication of the extent of this growth is set out in Table I.

Channel Change Agents in Developing Countries

Louis P. Bucklin

The marketing of food products in the rapidly growing urban centres of developing countries is one of the major distribution challenges facing government planners, marketing…

INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION NEWS

The general world trade recession is reflected in the 15 per cent drop in UK seaborne tonnage in 1975 according to statistics published recently (July 9) in the official…