Freightliners operate some 190 trains and some 700 road vehicles daily. They operate 25 terminals and the number of containers carried has gone up from 391,000 in 1969 to 640,000 in 1974; the budgeted figure for 1975 is 730,000. Freightliner trains can run at 75 mph, which means they can be fitted...

In industry generally business games have become an accepted training method for management trainees and business graduates, but relatively little has so far been done to extend the technique to retail management. A new business game for retailing has been devised, called Outlet, preferably for...

Changing market and economic conditions, inflation, and Government controls are commonplace problems facing every business, and most managers, including retail management. But, amid all the panaceas proposed, the exhortations and guidelines of Government and the solutions developed by managers,...

In an ariticle last year, (RDM, May/June 1975, p.22, Foodstore Advertising), I deferred consideration of what was then a new advertising campaign—the now familiar “Wonder of Woolworth”. Time has given a new perspective to the task and enabled me to write about developments in retailing...

Last year the Business Education Council issued a consultative document asking for advice from those concerned with education in distribution. Robert Marshall outlines some points he thinks worth raising—the relation between staff education and staff training; the need for adequate provision...

Woolco opened a superstore at Cwmbran in South Wales last October. The store is 9,290 sq metres in size and adds yet another major unit to an area which already contains a Carrefour at Caerphilly and an Asda at Rogerstone (Newport). The authors are involved in a programme of research which is...

The ever spiralling cost of distribution operations has led to the idea of contract warehousing being reviewed in a new light. The present policy for retailers has been towards cutting down on money tied up in stock in order to leave finance available for other purposes but this usually results...

By international standards, British retailers are relatively efficient. However, their performance could be threatened both by the present recession and by the growing complexity of central and local planning and regulations. Neither is the economic role of retailing in terms of marketing...

It is no news to retailers that their margins have been effectively restricted by a combination of Price Code regulations and customer resistance. Indeed, escalating operating costs are now eating into margins so fast that it is doubtful if the average of remaining profits exceeds 50% of...

In the writers' view, an order processing system can best be built up by identifying the facilities required, and considering methods of order entry. They then discuss the advantages of telephone selling and describe how telephone sales operators can make full use of the order processing system...