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chap 16
exam 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| retailing | consists of all activities involved in selling, renting, and providing products and services to ultimate consumers for personal, family, or household use. |
| Form of ownership | distinguishes retail outlets based on whether independent retailers, corporate chains, or contractual systems own the outlet. |
| Level of service | the degree of service provided to the customer from three types of retailers: self-, limited-, and full-service. |
| merchandise line | describes how many different types of products a store carries and in what assortment. |
| Depth of product line | means that the store carries a large assortment of each product item. |
| Breadth of product line | describes the variety of different product items a store carries |
| Scrambled merchandising | consists of offering several unrelated product lines in a single store. |
| hypermarket | is a form of scrambled merchandising, which consists of a large store (more than 200,000 square feet) that offers everything in a single outlet, eliminating the need for consumers to shop at more than one location. |
| Intertype competition | consists of competition between very dissimilar types of retail outlets that results from a scrambled merchandising policy |
| retailing mix | consists of the activities related to managing the store and the merchandise in the store, which includes retail pricing, store location, retail communication, and merchandise. |
| Off-price retailing | consists of selling brand name merchandise at lower than regular prices. |
| central business district | is the oldest retail setting, usually located in the community’s downtown area |
| Regional shopping centers | are retail locations that consist of 50 to 150 stores that typically attract customers who live or work within a 5- to 10-mile range, often containing two or three anchor stores. |
| community shopping center | is a retail location that typically has one primary store (usually a department store branch) and often 20 to 40 smaller outlets, serving a population of consumers who are within a 10- to 20-minute drive. |
| strip mall | is a retail location that consists of a cluster of neighborhood stores to serve people who are within a 5- to 10- minute drive. |
| power center | is a retail location that consists of a huge shopping strip with multiple anchor (or national) stores. |
| Multichannel retailers | are retailers that utilize and integrate a combination of traditional store formats and nonstore formats such as catalogs, TV home shopping, and online retailing |
| Shopper marketing | is the use of displays, coupons, product samples, and other brand communications to influence shopping behavior in a store. |
| Category management | is an approach to managing the assortment of merchandise in which a manager is assigned the responsibility for selecting all products that consumers in a market segment might view as substitutes for each other, with the objective of maximizing sales and |