Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate off the pages of Pravda and into the industrial arena, Khrushchev gave the reformers a place to test their theories. Two clothing factories-Moscow's Bolshevichka and Gorky's Mayak-were cut loose to negotiate prices and sell their suits and dresses directly to 22 retail stores. The stores told the two factories what kinds of goods the consumers wanted, and the factories were judged by the profits made on what goods were actually sold...
Department-store shares climbed on the Street on news that retail sales in January were running well ahead of the same period last year. Auto stocks did well because Detroit's production so far in 1965 is 7% ahead of last year's rate; this week output will be 17% higher than in the same week a year...
Some two years ago, Kharkov Professor of Economics Evsei Liberman startled the Soviet establishment with a Pravda piece urging a switch from rigid, centralized Marxist planning to Western-style profit guidelines for factories. As Liberman saw it, factories would produce only what retail stores could sell. The proposal was more pre-revolutionary than revolutionary, and it touched off a storm of protest from orthodox Marxists...
...this new form of planning" as "profitable for industry and the population," Moscow announced that it already had approved the conversion to Libermanism of nearly 400 consumer-goods factories from Moscow and Leningrad to Minsk and Kazakhstan. Trade ministries have until Jan. 31 to draw up a list of retail outlets authorized to place orders directly to the factories. Factory managers in turn will be given the authority to set production schedules based on retail-store orders, and to determine the size and wages of the work force needed to fill them at a profit...
...single office building had gone up in the center of the city since 1928, and the downtown area was a sleazy jungle of honky-tonks and arcades. Suburban shopping centers had relentlessly whittled downtown retail volume; the city faced a 30% decline in sales revenue by 1962. A successful bond issue was as rare as snow. Despite 35 separate attempts to build one, San Diego remained a city without a convention hall. In virtually every other sector of the economy from transit to schools, San Diego was lagging far behind lesser and less-blessed cities...