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Unit 3: Pre-Store Opening

Super Markets: Conventional super markets are primarily self-service food stores offering Notes
almost all items of daily necessarily like groceries, meat products and fresh produce.

3.9 Review Questions

1. Define the term Store operation.
2. What are the different resources available to help you reach your goal and show you how
to open a new store?

3. What is visual merchandising concerned with?
4. What are fashion and home furnishing retailers’ responsibilities?
5. What are the primary functions of retailing?
6. “Retailers need to decide on the merchandise to offer by engaging in the sorting process
of assembling a range of goods and services from a variety of suppliers”. Elucidate.
7. “Merchandise management focus on planning and controlling of the retailer’s inventories”.
Discuss.
8. What are the essential ways of presenting merchandise in a store?
9. What are distribution centre?
10. “Distribution centres are the foundation of a supply network”. How?
11. A typical retail distribution network operates with centres set up throughout a commercial
market, with each centre serving a number of stores.
12. How will you comment for the statement that a distribution centre can be co-located at a
logistics centre?
13. What are break bulk? What is the function of an export department in distribution centre?
14. Discuss the significance of distribution centre management system. What does an automated
DCMS ensure?
15. In today’s environment, speed through the distribution centre is critical. Elaborate.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. executing 2. plenty
3. False 4. True

5. False 6. True
7. Distribution centres 8. inventory
9. commercial market 10. logistics
11. co-located 12. behaviour of consumer

13. False 14. False
15. False 16. True
17. distribution centre 18. customers, on time
19. False 20. False

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