Isn retailing just about filling shelves in a supermarket and bowing and scraping to customers?
Most definitely NOT!! If your only experience of retailing at this point is work in a Saturday job in a store, then you may not be fully aware of everything that goes on behind the scenes to bring those products to the shelf. Filling shelves is an important part of a retailer’s business, of course, especially if it is a large modern superstore with a weekly turnover in excess of £1.5 million. Yes, that could mean a store is taking in excess of £75 million a year, which is more than the annual turnover of some small companies! But have you ever stopped to think how that product has got onto the shelf? Just some of the people involved in getting product onto the shelves and clothes rails of stores include: • buyers who have to seek out reliable and cost effective suppliers (which may involve foreign travel, attending fashion and trade shows and the like); • merchandisers and allocators who decide what product to put into which store and in what quantity, and what to do if the product doe
