Retail management : a strategic approach /
Barry Berman, Joel R. Evans.
- 9th edition.
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2004.
- xxiii, 584 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Content Part One . An Overview of Strategic Retail management 1. An Introduction to Retailing 2. Building and Sustaining Relationships in Retailing 3. Strategic planning retailing
Part Two. Situation Analysis 4. Retail Institutions by Ownership 5. Retail institutions by Store-based Strategy mix 6. Web, nonstore-based and other forms of nontraditional retailing
Part Three. Targeting Customers and Gathering Information 7. Identifying and Understanding consumers 8. Information Gathering and Processing in Retailing
Part Four. Choosing a Store Location 9. Trading- Area Analysis 10. Site Selection
Part Five . managing a Retail Business 11. Retailing Organization and Human Resources Management 12. Operations Management: Financial Dimensions 13. Operations management: Operational Dimensions
Part Six. Merchandise Management and Pricing 14. Developing Merchandise Plans 15. Implementing Merchandise Plans 16. Financial Merchandise Management 17. Pricing in retailing
Part Seven. Communicating with customer 18. Establishing and Maintaining a retail image 19. Promotional Strategy
Part Eight. Putting it Altogether 20. Integrating and Controlling the Retail Strategy.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes P. 556-578