This is the first of a new occasional feature which will offer comment on topical aspects of the distributive scene. The pseudonym adopted by the author cloaks the anonymity of an executive concerned with the planning function in a major national retail organisation. This month Donald Wright...

Trying to be responsible It's early days yet, with Phase 2 of the Prices and Incomes Policy being (as I write) hardly three months old. Already, however, several colleagues have advanced the view that the effects of Phase 2 are beginning to be felt.