This article throws light upon the top six large-scale retailers. The retailer are: 1. Mail Order Sale 2. Consumer Co-Operative Stores 3. Vending Machine 4. Discount Houses 5. Supermarket 6. One-Price Shop. Retailer # 1. Mail Order Sale: Standardisation, grading, branding and packaging brought about the growth of mail-order sale, i.e., selling or shopping by post-described as 'armchair shopping.' The [...]
This article will help you to differentiate between Consumer Co-Operative Store and Proprietary Retails Shop. Difference # Consumers' Co-Operative Store: 1. Co-operative store is a co-operative organisation and follows principles of co-operation. 2. Co-operative store aims at offering service to the members and the society. It can never indulge in profiteering, black marketing, etc. It offers maximum social benefits. It [...]
Important components of physical distribution of products are: 1. Order Processing 2. Transportation 3. Warehousing 4. Inventory Control! Physical distribution is an important element of marketing mix; it involves physical handling and movement of goods from the place of production to the place of consumption. […]