Solutions for Retailing Management, 11th Edition Levy (All Chapters included)
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Complete Solutions Manual for Retailing Management, 11th Edition by Michael Levy, Barton Weitz, Dhruv Grewal ; ISBN13: 9781264157440.. (Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 18). Teaching Notes to Cases included...
Chapter 1: Introduction to the World of Retailing.
Chapter 2: Types of Retailers.
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,CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF RETAILING
ANNOTATED OUTLINE INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
I. Introduction
• Retailing is a common part of our everyday lives. For most Ask students about where they
people, retailers simply are places to buy things. bought their school supplies.
There will likely be a mix of
• However, behind the stores, websites, sales associates, responses, including the college
and cashiers are an army of managers responsible for bookstore, online, or even from
making sure that the products and services that people another student. Question
want are available when they want them, where they want students on the pros and cons of
them, and at a fair price. each type of transaction.
• Working in this highly competitive, rapidly changing retail
environment is both challenging and exciting, and it offers
significant financial rewards.
• Knowledge of retailing principles and practices will help
you develop management skills for many business contexts
II. What Is Retailing? LO 1-1 Identify retailing activities.
• Retailing is the set of business activities that adds value to
the products and services sold to consumers for their
personal or family use. See PPT 1-3
• Not all retailing is done in stores. Examples of nonstore Ask students to give examples of
retailing include ordering a T-shirt on your mobile phone retailers. One ice-breaking activity
app, buying cosmetics from an Avon salesperson, ordering is to ask each student to list as
hiking boots from an L.L.Bean catalog, and streaming a many retailers as they can think of
movie through Amazon Prime. in a specified period of time. Ask
the student with the most listed
retailers to read his or her list to
the class.
Generally, the student will think of
traditional retailers that sell
through stores. Be sure to discuss
the many other examples such as
HSN, Avon, Jiffy Lube, Pizza Hut,
and airlines.
Certainly students should be
encouraged to consider digital,
multichannel, and omnichannel
, retailers like Amazon.com or
Delta.
A. The Retailer's Role in a Supply Chain
• A retailer is a business that sells products and/or services A typical supply chain network is
to consumers for their personal or family use. Retailers are illustrated in PPT 1-4.
a key component in a supply chain that links
manufacturers to consumers.
• A supply chain is a set of firms that make and deliver goods
and services to consumers.
• Retailers typically buy products from wholesalers and/or
manufacturers and resell them to consumers.
B. Retailers Create Value PPT 1-5, 1-6, 1-7 illustrate the
value question for retailers.
• Retailers undertake business activities and perform
functions that increase the value of the products and
services they sell to consumers.
• The value-creating activities undertaken by retailers
include (1) providing an assortment of products and
services, (2) breaking bulk, (3) holding inventory, and (4)
providing services.
1. Providing Assortments Ask students to describe the
difference in the assortments of
• Offering an assortment enables customers to choose from bicycles provided by Walmart and
a wide selection of brands, designs, sizes, colors, and prices the local bike shop. What is the
in one location. difference in assortment of body
lotions and creams provided by
• Conventional supermarkets typically carry about 30,000 Bath and Body Works and CVS?
different items made by more than 500 companies.
2. Breaking Bulk How many students have made
purchases at Sam’s
• To reduce transportation costs, manufacturers and Club/BJ’s/Costco? What items
wholesalers typically ship cases/cartons of products to have the students or their family
retailers. members purchased in bulk?
Discuss the advantages of buying
• Retailers then offer the products in smaller quantities in bulk. For what purchases and
tailored to individual consumers’ and households’ what types of consumers does
consumption patterns—an activity called breaking bulk. buying in bulk make sense?
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