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RETAILING
Unit 5
Syllabus
Non store retailing
The impact of Information Technology in
retailing
Integrated systems and networking
EDI
Bar coding
Electronic article surveillance
Electronic shelf labels
customer database management
system.
Legal aspects in retailing.
Social issues in retailing. Ethical issues in
Retail Stores
Astorethat sells smaller quantities of
products or services to the general public. A
business that operates as aretailoutlet
will typically buy goods directly from
manufacturers or wholesale suppliers at a
volume discount and will then mark them
up in price for sale to end consumers
4.
3.
Hypermarket: It is a combination of
supermarket and departmental stores. They
offer variety of food and non-food items like
clothes,
jewellery,
hardware,
sport
equipments, cycles, motor accessories, books,
electronics and electrical appliances, etc. They
offer products at cheapest possible prices.
Carrefour, Wal-Mart, Meijer, Target, Tesco, etc.,
are famous supermarkets. Big Bazaar, Star
India Bazaar, Giant, etc., are example of Indias
supermarkets.
4.
Specialty
Store:
B. Non-Store Retailing
A direct relationship of the retailer
with his customer is on the basis of
non-store Retailing. In India around
twenty percent of retail sale is from
non-store.
There are several forms of nonstore retailing:
i. Direct Selling
ii. Mail Order
iii. Telemarketing
iv. Cyber Marketing
IT Implemented in Retail
stores
EDI
Bar Coding
Electronic article
surveillance
Electronic shelf
labels
Customer database
management
system
Legal Issue
Consumer
Protection
Act,1946
Industrial
Establishment
Act,1946
Legal
Issues in
Retailing
Industrial
Disputes
Act,1947
Prevention
of Food
Adulteration
Shops And
Establishment
Act