Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the problem facing the man about to enter the retail field, whether to stake his chips with a large or small firm, with a single store or with a chain cannot be answered...
Other industries have proved the advantages of personnel departments, modern advertising, and detailed record keeping; retail trade is now trying t catch up. Executives expect the next large improvement to come in the application of electronics to the industry. Rapid expansion to the country and suburban areas is proving all the while the necessity for having top men in store management and control, as well as in buying and selling. Expansion, of course, means more demand for college graduates to fill additional posts...
...employment offices of the big retail outfits report they do not have enough men to fill their training program courses, and are having to go outside their companies t find the needed men. The most recent move t increase the attractiveness of the business has been elimination of the six-day working week. Yet knowledge that the free day will probably not come on Saturday has served to decrease the effectiveness of this move...
...larger companies specialized courses cover every phase of the retail field, and often require half the work to be done on the student's own time. The training aimed at developing a buyer's sense of merchandising hard though it may be, qualifies a program graduate to enter any aspect of the retail trade, and advance with rapidity unknown in other fields of business...
Until recently the mortality rate among independents has been high, yet the cause of the rate has largely been poor management. Independents still do over half of all retail business, and can usually truthfully claim to give customers more individual, personal service than can the chains. Individual stores tend to foster higher employee morale and greater interest in the welfare of the company. In certain states, chain stores operation has been the target of high taxation by legislatures...