Retail Management

1. Definition of retailing
2. Functions of a retailer
3. E-tailing
4. Super market
5. Hyper market
6. Discounts store
7. Departmental store
8. Specialty stores
9. Category killers
10. Assortment
11. Merchandise
12. Length, depth and breadth of merchandise
13. Central business district
14. Unplanned business district
15. Planned shopping stores
16. Airport retailing
17. Catalogue retailing
18. Franchising
19. Wheel of retailing
20. Vending machine retailing
21. Shopper behavior
22. Shopper decision making process
23. Category management
24. Reference groups
25. Food falls
26. Current ratio
27. Liquidity ratio
28. Quick ratio
29. Balance sheet
30. BEP
31. Merchandise turnover
32. Return on Investment
33. Return on capital employed
34. Convenience goods
35. Specialty goods
36. Shopping goods
37. Traffic count – i) Pedestrian traffic and ii) automobile traffic
38. Visual merchandising
39. Staple merchandise
40. Fashion merchandise
41. Fad merchandise
42. EDI (Electronic data interchange)
43. Push and pull supply chain
44. Cross docking
45. CPFR (Collaborative, planning, forecasting and replenishment)
46. RFID
47. Reverse logistics
48. Vendor managed inventory
49. Plannogram
50. Private labels
51. Copy cat store brand
52. Scrambled merchandising
53. Seasonal merchandise
54. EDLP (Everyday Low Pricing)
55. POP display
56. Atmospherics and aesthetics
57. Publicity
58. Public relations
59. Grid layout
60. Race track layout
61. Freeform layout
62. Storayed layout
63. Price bundling
64. Flea market
65. Skimming pricing
66. Penetration pricing
67. Multi unit pricing
68. Multi - channel retailing
69. Raillys law of retail gravitation
70. Hubs law of shopper attraction
71. Video kiosk
72. Primary trading area
73. Secondary trading area