Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

ECONOMIC FORECASTS — We need them, but can we trust them?

Stuart Eliot

For retail management as for management generally, it is essential to keep well informed of present and future economic trends. One might expect that with sophisticated…

Changes in North American supermarkets

David Rogers

There seems little doubt that the north American supermarket scene is a great deal more colourful and varied than its equivalent in the UK. Acquisitions and mergers are proceeding…

Europe — retailers fight for market share

Penelope Ody

Managers with insight, flexibility and drive are essential if the future of retailing is going to be anything more than a grim treading water in the years of slow economic…

Shopping centre development in West Germany

Gareth Shaw

Post war West Germany was one of the first European countries to develop purpose‐built shopping centres. This long development period has thus given German retailers and planners…

Is transport undersold?

John Harvey

“Is transport undersold?” is a rhetorical question; the answer is yes, according to John Harvey. When he gave the Presidential Address to the Transport and Distribution Group of…