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Chapter 18

Chapter 18 discusses the management of retailing, wholesaling, and logistics, focusing on the types of marketing intermediaries and the changes in the retail environment due to technology and competition. It outlines various types of retailers, marketing decisions, and the importance of private-label brands. Additionally, it covers wholesaling functions and logistics planning essential for effective supply chain management.

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Chapter 18

Chapter 18 discusses the management of retailing, wholesaling, and logistics, focusing on the types of marketing intermediaries and the changes in the retail environment due to technology and competition. It outlines various types of retailers, marketing decisions, and the importance of private-label brands. Additionally, it covers wholesaling functions and logistics planning essential for effective supply chain management.

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Chapter

18
Managing Retailing,
Wholesaling,
and Logistics

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Learning Objectives
1. What major types of marketing intermediaries occupy this
sector?
2. What major changes are occurring in the modern retail
marketing environment with respect to competitive market
structure and technology?
3. What marketing decisions do marketing intermediaries
make?
4. What does the future hold for private label brands?
5. What are some of the important issues in wholesaling??
6. What are some important issues in logistics?

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Retailing
• Retailing
– All the activities in selling
goods or services directly to
final consumers for personal,
nonbusiness use
• Retailer/retail store
– Any business enterprise
whose sales volume
comes primarily from
retailing
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Types of retailers
• Store retailers, nonstore retailers, and
retail organizations

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Types of retailers
• Store retailers:

• Specialty store • Discount store


• Department store • Extreme value or hard-
• Supermarket discount store
• Convenience store • Off-price retailer
• Drug store • Superstore
• Catalog showroom

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Types of retailers
• Levels of service for store retailers

 Self-service
 Self-selection
 Limited service
 Full service

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Types of retailers
• Nonstore retailing
– Direct marketing
– Direct selling
– Automatic vending
– Buying services

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Types of retailers
• Corporate retailing and franchising

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Corporate Retailing and
Franchising
• Franchises are distinguished by three
characteristics:
– The franchisor owns a trade or service mark
and licenses it to franchisees in return
for royalty payments
– The franchisee pays for the right to be part of
the system
– The franchisor provides its franchisees with a
system for doing business

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The Modern Retail Marketing
Environment
• Competitive retail market structure

 New retail forms and combinations


 Growth of giant retailers
 Growth of intertype competition
 Emergence of fast retailing
 Decline of middle-market retailers

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The Modern Retail Marketing
Environment
• Role of technology
– Retailers use
technology for
business operations,
to enhance the
consumer shopping
experience inside the
store, and
Internet/social media
strategies
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Marketing Decisions

• Target market • Services


• Channels • Store atmosphere
• Product assortment • Store activities and
• Procurement experiences
• Prices • Communications
• Location

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Product Assortment
• Develop product differentiation

 Feature exclusive national brands


 Feature private-label merchandise
 Feature distinctive-merchandise events
 Feature ever-changing merchandise
 Feature the latest merchandise first
 Offer merchandise-customizing services
 Offer a highly targeted assortment

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Services
• Retailers must decide on the services mix to
offer customers:

Prepurchase services

Postpurchase services

Ancillary services

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Location

Central Regional
business shopping
districts centers

Community
Stand-alone shopping
stores centers

Location within Shopping


a larger store strips

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Private Labels
• A private-label brand is a brand that
retailers and wholesalers develop
– Role of private labels
– Private-label success factors

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Wholesaling
• Wholesaling
includes all the
activities in selling
goods or services to
those who buy for
resale or business
use

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Major wholesaler types

Merchant Full-service
wholesalers wholesalers

Limited-
Specialized
service
wholesalers
wholesalers

Manufacturers’/
Brokers and
retailers’
agents
branches/offices

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Wholesaler functions

• Selling and promoting • Transportation


• Buying and • Financing
assortment building • Risk bearing
• Bulk breaking • Market information
• Warehousing • Management services
and counseling

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Market Logistics
• Supply chain
management (SCM)
• Market logistics
• Integrated logistics
systems (ILS)
• Lean
manufacturing

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Market logistics planning
1. Deciding on company’s value
proposition
2. Selecting best channel design and
network strategy
3. Developing operational
excellence
4. Implementing solution

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Market-Logistics Decisions
• Order processing: how should we handle
orders?
• Warehousing: where should we locate our
stock?
• Inventory: how much stock should we
hold?
• Transportation: how should we ship
goods?
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Figure 18.1
Optimal Ordering Quantity

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Transportation
• Containerization
– Piggyback,
fishyback,
trainship, and
airtruck
• Private vs. contract
vs. common carriers

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