Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 6 Issue 4
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HYPERMARKETS AND SUPERSTORES: WHAT DO THE PLANNING AUTHORITIES REALLY THINK?
Jennifer Sumner, Keri DaviesIn recent years a great deal of information has been collected and published (much of it in this journal) on the perpetually contentious issue of the hypermarket and the…
A comment from URPI
We asked Bryan Wade, Director of the Unit for Retail Planning Information, to comment on some of the implied criticisms of URPI made in the preceding feature. He replied as…
Will there be more shops like this and less like this?
Maurice ZinkinThe profitability of the supermarket over the last twenty years has been won largely at the expense of the small local shop. Will this trend continue? Maurice Zinkin suggests that…
Rymans at home and at work
A basic concept of dual merchandising — domestic and office — is being introduced into a number of Ryman shops, the management intention being to retain the commercial market and…
Sales forecasting with limited resources: Part 1
Nigel PiercyMost marketing executives would accept that one of the most significant activities in management planning and control is that of attempting to predict future sales. In Part One…
How Tesco came close to breakdown
David PowellThe story of Tesco's abandonment of trading stamps and launching of Operation Checkout has been told perhaps more than enough over the past year. What is not so well‐known is the…
HOW TO MANAGE EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
E Roy GriffithsStarting with the fundamental question of ‘Why change at all?’ E Roy Griffiths goes on to examine a number of problems faced by the retail business in the planning and…
ADVISE OR CONTROL: CENTRALISATION VS DE‐CENTRALISATION IN RETAIL CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Staffan GunnarssonA report made to the CIES ten years ago on the subject of centralisation vs de‐centralisation found that centralisation acted as ‘a very real motivator for growth’, but that this…