PART 1: MANAGING THE RETAILING ENVIRONMENT 1. Introduction: The Retail Environment 2. Structural Change in Retailing: The Retailing in Historical Perspective 3. The Retailing Industry: Retailing Structures 4. Managing in Good Times and Bad: Dealing with Booms and Slumps PART 2: RETAIL MARKETING - PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Strategic Marketing Planning for Retailing: Setting up the Business 6. The Customer and the Retail Business: Knowing your Customers 7. The Fundamentals of Merchandising 8. Establishing a Pricing Strategy: Getting the Price Right 9. Promoting the Store: Sending Out the Correct Sort of Messages 10. Locating the Store: Locating in the Retail Environment PART 3: RETAIL MARKETING - OPERATIONS 11. Store Design and Layout: Producing the Right Format 12. Managing the Service Setting: Making the Sale 13. Managing Retail Services: Creating Quality Retail Services PART 4: DELIVERING THE PRODUCT 14. Business Operations: Inside the Retail Organisation 15. Logistics and Distribution: Shipping the Goods to Market 16. Rolling Out the Goods: Developing New Relationships 17. Buying the Goods: The Product Development Process 18. People in Retailing: Making People Matter PART 5: THE FUTURE HAPPENING NOW: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE 19. Out-of-Store Retailing: Buy By Wire 20. International Retailing: Going Global: What?s In It For Us?