Industry and commerce are today generally very training conscious. The Industrial Training Act of 1964 was a very useful spur to those who had not previously given much thought to the topic. In the retail and distribution sectors there are many examples of firms with excellent in‐house...

The Retail Consortium rarely misses an opportunity to criticise the Government's policy on margin controls or inflation, and naturally had its own comments to make when the Price Commission published its second quarter report at the end of July. Its findings were that profits in both food and...

Asda's impressive progress over the past few years has now brought them to the stage where they are achieving—from a relatively few 46 stores—4.3% of total grocery turnover, taking fifth place (excluding the co‐ops) in terms of relative market share. Faced like everybody else with...

Computers have been used in food retailing groups for the past 13–14 years. Companies such as Sainsbury and Tesco Stores began by implementing distribution and basic accounting systems on mark sense cards and early computing equipment like the Emidec 1100. From these elementary beginnings the...

Each alternate year the Distributive Trades Education and Training Council arranges a conference for University Careers Advisory Officers. The purpose of the conference is to outline management career opportunities for university graduates in retail and wholesale distribution, and the format...

A great deal of effort is devoted in planning exercises to balance the amount of new shopping floor space which can be permitted in one centre rather than another. David Thorpe suggests that the margin of error involved, because of the difficulties associated with forecasting total potential,...

The progression from fish and chips to fried chicken spans an era of radical social change—from smoky street corner fish and chip shops to the fluorescent and chromium American style suburban outlet. Questions of hygiene apart, such a “progression” to an alien and plastic style of...

A more simplified assortment, closer attention to the product, an emphasis on personnel management—these are the essential factors to be borne in mind in operating food supermarkets, whether they be in the United States or in Europe. A paper given to the CIES annual congress in Venice.

Cash flow, management's current pressing problem, affects the cash and carry business rather less than most—for obvious reasons. The Stern Osmat group is the largest wholesale distributor in the hardware trade in the UK, operating not only 16 CandC centres in the south of England but also a...

The Industrial Society‐in spite of its name—has for many years been concerned with the retail trade, and now has a thriving retail department headed up by Tina Tietjen. Some very distinguished retail companies utilise the Society's training services, as she explains in this article.