Optimising performance and profitability of retail stores
Douglas Parker Douglas Parker Associates, South Africa
INTRODUCTION
The retail market is one of the most dynamic fields of enterprise in the world. There are few barriers to entry, and the market is always in a state of flux, allowing innovative new entrepreneurs to establish themselves and grow quickly, replicating their successes from town to town to form powerful chains. The stories are legion of people who have amassed vast fortunes in the retail world from small beginnings in individual stores.
But the retail market is also very unforgiving, and there is...