Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 10 Issue 6

Fitch — Philosophy into practice

Sue Sharpies

Fitch & Co, who have been in the design field for over 20 years, have recently gone public, and a glance at the figures for the first day's trading must have left RodneyFitch very…

EFTS and the EPOS market in Europe

Eric Foster

An analysis carried out by a major supplier of EPOS equipment suggests that, if EFTS is introduced at point of sale, with all cheques replaced by EFT debit card transactions, and…

A computer system for a pharmacy operation

Alan Simpson

Until fairly recently, the pharmacy profession has remained reasonably immune from the attention of the computer industry sales teams. The reasons for this reprieve are mainly…

SHOP LAYOUT: The key to increased sales

Justin Ashbourn

Selling more to your customers is one area of modern retailing examined in a new study The Way Ahead for Sports Retailing published by Storeplan, shop interior specialists from…

Applying automation to warehousing: The Elida Gibbs distribution centre at Whitwood

Michael Sweet

The Elida Gibbs distribution centre at Whitwood has the reputation of being one of the most successful applications so far of data processing systems to warehousing in this…