Part Four
Distribution
Decisions
16
Retailing
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Chapter Learning Objectives
• To understand the purpose and function of
retailers in the marketing channel
• To identify the major types of retailers
• To recognize the various forms of nonstore
selling
• To examine major types of franchising and its
benefits and weaknesses
• To explore strategic issues in retailing
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Chapter Outline
• The Nature of Retailing
• Major Types of Retail Stores
• Nonstore Retailing
• Franchising
• Strategic Issues in Retailing
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The Nature of Retailing
• Retailing
–Transactions in which ultimate consumers are the
buyers
• Retailers
–Organizations that purchase products for the purpose
of reselling them to ultimate consumers
• Retailers add value—shopping convenience, services, and
purchasing assistance to customers
• Retailers create utility—time, place, possession, and form
–Success in retailing comes from having a strong
customer focus coupled with desired levels of service,
product quality, and innovation.
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Major Types of Retail Stores
• General-Merchandise Retailers
–A retail establishment that offers a variety of product
lines
–Department stores
• Large retail organizations characterized by wide product
mixes and organized into separate departments to facilitate
marketing efforts and internal management
–Discount stores
• Self-service, general merchandise stores offering brand
name and private brand products at low prices
–Supermarkets
• Large, self-service stores that carry a complete line of food
products, along with some nonfood products
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Major Types of Retail Stores (cont’d)
• General-Merchandise Retailers (cont’d)
–Superstores
• Giant retail outlets that carry food and nonfood products
found in supermarkets, as well as most routinely
purchased consumer products
–Hypermarkets
• Stores that combine supermarket and discount shopping
in one location
–Warehouse clubs
• Large-scale, members-only establishments that combine
features of cash-and-carry wholesaling with discount
retailing
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Major Types of Retail Stores (cont’d)
• General-Merchandise Retailers (cont’d)
–Warehouse showrooms
• Retail facilities in large. low-cost buildings with large onpremise inventories and minimal services
–Catalog showrooms
• A form of warehouse showroom where consumers can
shop from a catalog and products are stored out of buyers’
reach
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Major Types of Retail Stores (cont’d)
• Specialty Retailers
–Traditional specialty retailers
• Also called “limited-line” and “single-line” retailers
• Carry a narrow product mix with deep product lines (e.g.,
pet supplies)
• Have higher costs and higher margins
• Provide more product selection (first-line brands), product
expertise, and high levels of personal service
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Major Types of Retail Stores (cont’d)
• Specialty Retailers (cont’d)
–Off-price retailers
• Buy manufacturers’ seconds, overruns, returns, and offseason merchandise for resale to consumers at deep
discounts
• Charge less than do department stores for comparable
merchandise and offer few customer services
• Have established long-term relationships with suppliers for
continuing supplies of reduced-price goods
–Category killers
• Concentrate on a major product category and compete on
the basis of low prices and product availability
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NonStore Retailing
• Nonstore Retailing
–The selling of products outside the confines of a retail
facility
–Growth sector of retailing due to
• Consumers are less willing to devote personal time to
shopping in retail stores.
• Poorly trained and informed retail personnel can’t offer
needed sales assistance.
• Growing population of older shoppers
who tend to shop less in large stores.
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NonStore Retailing (cont’d)
• Direct Selling
–The marketing of products to ultimate consumers
through face-to-face sales presentations at home or in
the workplace
• Party plans: hosting groups to view a product
demonstration and encouraging participants to purchase
the products
–Benefits
• Personal attention to customer
• Convenience of time and place of presentation
–Limitations
• High costs make it the most expensive form of selling
• Negative consumer view of direct selling
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NonStore Retailing (cont’d)
• Direct Marketing
–The use of telephone and nonpersonal media to
introduce products to consumers, who then can
purchase them via mail, telephone, or the Internet
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Direct Marketing
• Catalog Marketing
–A type of marketing in which an organization provides a
catalog from which customers can make selections and
place orders by mail, telephone, or the Internet
• Consumer advantages are efficiency and convenience
• Marketer advantages are lower location, facility, selling,
and operating costs.
• Disadvantages are inflexibility
and limited selection and local
service availability.
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Direct Marketing (cont’d)
• Direct-Response Marketing
–A type of marketing that occurs when a retailer
advertises a product and makes it available through
mail or telephone orders
• Telemarketing
–The performance of marketing-related activities by
telephone
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Direct Marketing (cont’d)
• Television Home Shopping
–A form of selling in which products are presented to
television viewers, who can buy them by calling a tollfree number and paying with a credit card
• Online Retailing
–Retailing that makes products
available to buyers through
computer connections
• Automatic Vending
–The use of machines to dispense
products
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Franchising
• Franchising
–An arrangement in which a supplier (franchiser) grants
a dealer (franchisee) the right to sell products in
exchange for some type of consideration
• Franchiser furnishes equipment, buildings, management
know-how, and marketing assistance.
• Franchisee supplies labor and capital, and operates the
business by the provisions of the franchise agreement.
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Major Types of Retail Franchises
• Manufacturer Authorization
–Product producer licenses retailers to sell its brand
name product(s)
• Distributor Authorization
–Product producer licenses distributors to sell its brand
name product to retailers
• Producer Authorization
–Franchiser supplies brand names, production
techniques, or other services to franchisee while
maintaining development and control of marketing
strategies
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Franchising (cont’d)
• Advantages
–Enables business startup with limited capital
–Provides developed and proven business to franchisee
–Attracts customers with established brand name
–Allows immediate market entry
–Motivates franchisee to succeed
• Disadvantages
–Control over aspects of the business and its operations
by franchiser
–Expense of continuing franchise royalties and
advertising fees
–Lack of control of franchisees by franchisor
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Strategic Issues in Retailing
• Retail Store Location
–Factors affecting location
•
•
•
•
Intended target market
Kinds of products
Suitability site for customer access
Characteristics of existing retail operations
• Types of Locations
–Free-standing structures
• Position relative to competition
• Customer access and parking
–Traditional business districts
• Redevelopment of decaying
downtown infrastructure
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Strategic Issues in Retailing (cont’d)
• Traditional Shopping Centers
–Neighborhood shopping centers
• Usually consist of several small convenience and specialty
stores.
–Community shopping centers
• Include one or more department stores (anchors), some
specialty stores, and convenience stores.
–Regional shopping centers
• Have the largest department
stores, the widest product mix,
and the deepest product lines
of all shopping centers.
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Strategic Issues in Retailing (cont’d)
• Nontraditional Shopping Centers
–Factory outlet malls
• Shopping centers that feature discount and factory outlet
stores carrying traditional brand name products
–Miniwarehouse mall
• Loosely planned centers that lease space to retailers
running retail stores out of warehouse bays
–Nonanchored malls
• Do not have traditional department store anchors; instead
combine off-price and category killer stores in a “power
center” format
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Strategic Issues in Retailing (cont’d)
• Retail Positioning
–Identifying an unserved or underserved market
segment and serving it through a strategy that
distinguishes the retailer from others in the minds of
consumers in that segment
• Store Image
–Atmospherics
• The physical elements in a store’s design that appeal to
consumers’ emotions and encourage buying
• Interior layout, colors, furnishings, and lighting
• Exterior storefront and entrance design, display windows,
and traffic congestion
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Strategic Issues in Retailing (cont’d)
• Scrambled Merchandising
–The addition of unrelated products and product lines to
an existing product mix, particularly fast-moving items
that can be sold in volume
–Intent of scrambled merchandising
•
•
•
•
Convert stores into one-stop shopping centers
Generate more customer traffic
Realize higher profit margins
Increase impulse purchases
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Strategic Issues in Retailing (cont’d)
• The Wheel of Retailing
–A hypothesis holding that new retailers usually enter
the market as low-status, low-margin, low-price
operators but eventually evolve into high-cost, high
price merchants.
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The Wheel of Retailing
Source: Adapted from Robert F. Hartley, Retailing: Challenge and Opportunity, 3rd ed., p. 42. Copyright © 1984
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After reviewing this chapter you should:
• Understand the purpose and function of retailers
in the marketing channel
• Be able to identify the major types of retailers
• Recognize the various forms of nonstore retailing
• Have examined the major types of franchising
and franchising’s strengths and weaknesses
• Have explored the strategic issues in retailing
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Important Terms
• Retailing
–Transactions in which ultimate consumers are the
buyers
• Retailers
–Organizations that purchase products for the purpose
of reselling them to ultimate consumers
• General-Merchandise Retailers
–A retail establishment that offers a variety of product
lines that are stocked in depth
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Important Terms
• Department stores
–Large retail organizations characterized by wide
product mixes and organized into separate
departments to facilitate marketing efforts and internal
management
• Discount Stores
–Self-service, general merchandise stores offering brand
name and private brand products at low prices
• Supermarkets
–Large, self-service stores that carry a complete line of
food products, along with some nonfood products
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Important Terms
• Superstores
–Giant retail outlets that carry food and nonfood products
found in supermarkets, as well as most routinely
purchased consumer products
• Hypermarkets
–Stores that combine supermarket and discount
shopping in one location
• Warehouse Clubs
–Large-scale, members-only establishments that
combine features of cash-and-carry wholesaling with
discount retailing
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Important Terms
• Warehouse Showrooms
–Retail facilities in large. low-cost buildings with large
on-premise inventories and minimal services
• Catalog Showrooms
–A form of warehouse showroom where consumers can
shop from a catalog and products are stored out of
buyers’ reach
• Traditional Specialty Retailers
–Carry a narrow product mix with deep product lines
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Important Terms
• Off-Price Retailers
–Buy manufacturers’ seconds, overruns, returns, and offseason merchandise for resale to consumers at deep
discounts
• Category Killers
–Concentrate on a major product category and compete
on the basis of low prices and product availability
• Nonstore Retailing
–The selling of products outside the confines of a retail
facility
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Important Terms
• Direct Selling
–The marketing of products to ultimate consumers
through face-to-face sales presentations at home or in
the workplace
• Direct Marketing
–The use of telephone and nonpersonal media to
introduce products to consumers, who then can
purchase them via mail, telephone, or the Internet
• Catalog Marketing
–A type of marketing in which an organization provides a
catalog from which customers can make selections and
place orders by mail, telephone, or the Internet
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Important Terms
• Direct-Response Marketing
–A type of marketing that occurs when a retailer
advertises a product and makes it available through
mail or telephone orders
• Telemarketing
–The performance of marketing-related activities by
telephone
• Television Home Shopping
–A form of selling in which products are presented to
television viewers, who can buy them by calling a tollfree number and paying with a credit card
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Important Terms
• Online Retailing
–Retailing that makes products
available to buyers through
computer connections
• Automatic Vending
–The use of machines to dispense products
• Franchising
–An arrangement in which a supplier (franchiser) grants
a dealer (franchisee) the right to sell products in
exchange for some type of consideration
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Important Terms
• Manufacturer Authorization
–Product producer licenses retailers to sell its brand
name product(s)
• Distributor Authorization
–Product producer licenses distributors to sell its brand
name product to retailers
• Producer Authorization
–Franchiser supplies brand names, production
techniques, or other services to franchisee while
maintaining development and control of marketing
strategies
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Important Terms
• Neighborhood Shopping Centers
–Usually consist of several small convenience and
specialty stores.
• Community Shopping Centers
–Include one or more department stores (anchors),
some specialty stores, and convenience stores.
• Regional Shopping Centers
• Have the largest department stores, the widest product
mix, and the deepest product lines of all shopping centers.
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Important Terms
• Factory outlet malls
–Shopping centers that feature discount and factory
outlet stores carrying traditional brand name products
• Miniwarehouse mall
–Loosely planned centers that lease space to retailers
running retail stores out of warehouse bays
• Nonanchored malls
–Do not have traditional department store anchors;
instead combine off-price and category killer stores in a
“power center” format
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Important Terms
• Retail Positioning
–Identifying an unserved or underserved market
segment and serving it through a strategy that
distinguishes the retailer from others in the minds of
consumers in that segment
• Atmospherics
–The physical elements in a store’s design that appeal to
consumers’ emotions and encourage buying
• Scrambled Merchandising
–The addition of unrelated products and product lines to
an existing product mix, particularly fast-moving items
that can be sold in volume
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Important Terms
• The Wheel of Retailing
–A hypothesis holding that new retailers usually enter
the market as low-status, low-margin, low-price
operators but eventually evolve into high-cost, high
price merchants.
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Transparency Figure 16C
General Merchandise Retailers
Type of Retailer
Department store
Examples
Foleys,
Lord &Taylor, Sears
Discount store
Wal-Mart, Kmart,
Target
Supermarket
Food Lion, A&P,
Ralph’s, Safeway,
Krogers
Superstore
Wal-Mart
Supercenter
Hypermarket
Carrefour’s
Warehouse club
SAM’s, Price-Costco
Warehouse showroom
lkea Furniture
Catalog showroom
ServiceMerchandise
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Transparency Figure 16E
Examples of Category Killers
• Toys “R” Us
• Home Depot
• Best Buy
• Office Depot
• PETsMart
• Barnes & Noble
Can you think of others?
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Transparency Figure 16G
Customers’ Reactions to Telemarketing Calls
How can telemarketers
be more effective in
reaching customers?
Source: “Do Not Disturb,” American Demographics, May 2001, p. 28. Adapted with permission.
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Transparency Table 16H
Percentage of Online Shoppers Who Have
Experienced Problems Sometimes or Frequently
Source: “Houston, We Have A Problem,” American Demographics, The Marketing Tools Directory, 2002, p. D60. Adapted with permission.
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