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A Manufacturer's View on Servicing
Roger JobsonIn the context of a brief look at the satisfaction of family grocery needs in the remainder of this decade, which should by now be fairly predictable, and more speculatively…
A Retailer's View on Servicing
Richard BealeThe scene in the 1980s will be, as it has been in the 1960s and early 1970s, a changing one. Retailing is dynamic: the consumer and the economic environment are influencing each…
Emerging Retail Units and their Servicing Problems
David WaltersThere are a number of environmental pressures working to develop a pattern for future grocery retailing. Urban congestion is forcing re‐development of city centres to exclude the…
Out of Hours Deliveries
R.J. BanisterThe purpose of my paper is not to provide tailor‐made solutions to the problems of making deliveries out of hours but to describe the experience that was gained from two out of…
The Potential for EDP in Distribution
B.A. FrenchThe past few years have seen a very marked downward trend in the costs of data processing equipment, particularly for the “heart” of such systems—the logic circuits and storage…