Retail and wholesale industries

Today's shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombieand the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory.

In the age of the Internet, how do you keep your customers coming back--again and again--when your competitors are always just one click away?

This comprehensive handbook delves into the multifaceted dimensions of the role of gender in tourism, spanning education, research, and practice.

How much do you know about what really goes on at your local supermarket?

An elegant demolition of the supermarket miracle, this book charts the impact that supermarkets have had on every aspect of our lives and culture.

Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.

I3E 2001 is the first in a series of conferences on e-commerce, e-business, and- government organised by the three IFIP committees TC6, TC8, and TC11.

What has neuroscience got to do with branding?

How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.

This user-friendly textbook covers qualitative, quantitative and social media research methods to provide students and course leaders with an accessible guide for learning and teaching marketing research from start to finish.

This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism.

This timely, expert-led book brings together the latest academic and practitioner insights on AI technology within the hospitality and tourism industries.

This book explores the multifaceted world of dark tourism and delves into the evolving perceptions and complex narratives surrounding tourism at sites of tragedy and historical significance.

Make the dream of opening a retail business a reality.

A thrifty offering for the prospective thrift-store owner.

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DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN 'Superb' Evening Standard'From the glitzy parties to the threatening phone calls, the larger-than-life characters to the speedy downfall, this real-life tale of hubris has all the elements of a Greek tragedy' City AM 'Entertaining stuff, pacily written.

This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific's new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and its implications for the global economy.

Britain's loss of its empire and its 'turn' to Europe are the two most striking features of its foreign policy in the thirty years after 1945.

Gaming markets are evolving rapidly.

This book, based upon a large-scale research project, examines alternative types of exchange rate policies being pursued and the changing nature of exchange rate policy during the transition process in four countries, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic.

To beat your competitors you must know exactly what they are doing.

Japanese distribution was long seen as archaic and difficult to understand, but today that has changed.

Leading international food retailers have in recent years expanded beyond national boundaries and started to operate on a global scale.

Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid, this book displays the need to transcend conventional market-oriented readings of cash-in-hand work and radically rethink whether seeking its eradication through tougher regulations is always appropriate.

e-Shock was a landmark book that analysed the impact of the electronic shopping revolution on major retailers and manufacturers and the strategic options available for the future.

The retail sector has undergone a major structural transformation in the past fifteen years and one aspect has been the enormous growth in airport retailing which now represents one of the major methods of profit generation for the airport authorities.

Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them.

Written by experts in Luxury and Fashion Management at SKEMA Business School this exciting new book offers a new perspective that challenges the established rules of the luxury and fashion industry.

This volume addresses profound issues in international economics, with contributions from leading researchers on the implications of trade.

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.

As potentially the largest retail market, China has attracted a great number of foreign retail operations.

This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses.

This new book focuses on the analysis of the online strategy and development of the luxury industry, tracing the evolution of the Internet from a means of communication to a trade and distribution channel.

China has become such an important element of the global economy that its influence cannot be ignored in almost any field of endeavour.

Imagine planning an event like the Olympics.

This book is about taking a theory, pricing, and translating it into an operational practice that can be used by a company on an everyday basis easily with maximum results.

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In Fundamentals of Leisure Business Success, you'll sidestep the theoretical, overly academic jargon that often bogs down books dealing with leisure and recreation and discover many revolutionary, practical ways that these theories translate into the everyday realities of market share, employee management, and all-out business survival.

Globally the hospitality and tourism industry is evolving and undergoing radical changes.

In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses.

In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses.

In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W.

The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion.

The global retail industry is in the early stages of an era of profound and unprecedented, change.

The global retail industry is in the early stages of an era of profound and unprecedented, change.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.