Premium position for for shops, the so-called “high-street” sites, can give the retailer a special type of unique selling proportion, and in recent years this line of attack has been followed to such a degree that there has been a variable battle among the multiples for premium positions. But these premium positions are costly -made [...]
At a superficial glance, one might be executed for thinking that the retailer has no cause for compliment, since the manufacturer, in the circumstances described, does the selling job for him! This might be so if each retailer had a monopoly in a given consumer area. But this is not so, and a retail shop [...]
For most part the manufacturing function is divorced from that retailing. There are few important examples of such vertical integration (that is, where a manufacturer runs or controls other links in the supply chain, either integrating “upwards” towards his raw materials or integrating “downwards” towards the retail outlets) but in most instances, like a famous [...]