Product Description: Looking at responsible fashion retailing and cost-effective supply chain management, Fashion Logistics examines the early growth and changes in the fashion industry, leading up to the drivers of change in today's market. The book covers international sourcing, merchandising, planning and forecasting, business models, operating strategies, and design distribution models...read more

Provides advice on opening a shop, finance, design, purchasing, merchandising, personnel matters, customer services, advertising, promotion, community relations, handling problems, and preparing for change (view table of contents)

Product Description: SMART RETAIL IS THE HOW-TO RETAIL BIBLE.   Smart Retail reveals what the most successful retailers in the world know and how you can apply their secrets to your own business. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes the latest success stories, new ideas and strategic and tactical thinking to help grow your sales...read more

Product Description: The advent of new technologies has been an impetus for rapid development in several industries, including the area of retail services. These recent advances push industry leaders to infuse new innovations into their various systems and processes...read more

Product Description: Coping with Retail Giants critically analyzes the modern retail market and identifies how businesses gain the competitive edge over the major retailers that currently control the market. Dr. Samli argues that as society advances economically, consumers will seek better values generated by the retailing sector...read more

Product Description: With crisp and insightful contributions from 47 of the world’s leading experts in various facets of retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium...read more

Product Description: The new edition of Logistics and Retail Management has been substantially updated to take account of recent developments in retail logistics. Retailers have recognized the need to have more involvement in supply chains and noted that benefits can be achieved in both service levels and cost reduction...read more

Product Description: “Great retailers are great at service.  No exceptions.  This book offers a wealth of insight into delivering excellent retail service.”   ---Leonard L. Berry, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, N.B Zale Chair in Retailing and Market Leadership, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University "With a growing understanding of service as a phenomenon and perspective of business and marketing, retailers are increasingly seeing the need to transform from distribution of products to service providers...read more

Product Description: With both small and large retailers collapsing, consumer confidence is at an all time low. The Retail Champion provides a practical ten step method showing independent retailers how to map out a unique plan so that they can thrive, even in uncertain times...read more

Product Description: Noted experts offer invaluable insights into the glamorous world of luxury retail Luxury Retail Management is your gold-plated ticket to the glamorous world of luxury retail. Defining all the tools that are necessary to manage luxury stores, from the analysis of location and design concept, to the selection, training, and motivation of the staff, the book covers everything you need to know to enter, expand, understand, and succeed in the world of luxury retail...read more

Book by Norman, Charles L.

Product Description: Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand. As consumers expect high product availability and low prices, and retailers are constantly increasing product variety and striving towards high service levels, the complexity of managing retail business and its operations is growing enormously...read more

Product Description: * Beat the big box retailers * Provide outstanding customer service * Use technology to your advantage Thirty-five years ago, opening and operating a retail business was a fairly straightforward process. But things have changed dramatically...read more

Product Description: The application of advanced technologies to point of sale systems is a promising and relatively unexplored field of study, in particular when considering the introduction of digital content and technologies allowing consumers to interact with products in new ways...read more

Product Description: Retail Category Management was created to help undergraduate students majoring in retailing, marketing, or supply chain management understand the nature of the retail process. The text starts off with fundamental concepts, such as an explanation of the original eight-step category, before moving to more complex topics, including the latest models and concepts in the field...read more

Great Ideas in Teaching Retailing: A Case and Exercises Book is specifically designed to accompany Retail Management: A Strategic Approach, 10th Edition. Great Ideas in Teaching Retailing: A Case and Exercises Book is divided into three parts: *Long cases--This section consists of 6 cases ranging in length from 3-7 pages. All of these cases, including the shorter ones, are suitable as major class assignments. You may wish to assign them for presentation by teams.*Short cases--This section is comprised of 37 shorter cases that are generally 2-3 pages in length. These are suitable for shorter assignments or for in-class discussion.*Chapter-Based Exercises--There is one exercise per chapter (suitable for assignments and for in-class discussion) as well as an integrative case (suitable for a team presentation).