Description
Competing in Tough Times brings together the powerful new strategies that world-class retailers are using today to survive--and thrive--in a brutally unforgiving retail environment. Internationally respected retail management expert Barry Berman shows retailers and their suppliers exactly how to build effective strategies based on cost and differentiation, plan and implement those strategies, and measure the results.
Berman offers detailed coverage of implementing strategies based on becoming the low-cost provider and minimizing product proliferation; enhancing the service experience; developing and maintaining a strong private label program; and more.
To support each approach, he presents full-length examples from retailers covering every market sector, from consumer goods to apparel to technology. He thoroughly examines top retailers such as Aldi, Amazon.com, L.L. Bean, Costco, Nordstrom, Publix, Stew Leonard's, Trader Joe's, Wegman's, and Whole Foods, and shares powerful insights drawn from the experiences of other leaders--from Au Bon Pain to Best Buy, Family Dollar to Target, Tesco to Walgreen.
Table of Contents
Preface xii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Questionable Future Facing Global Retailers 5
Chapter 2: Low-Cost Strategies I: Key Elements of a Low-Cost Provider Strategy 27
Chapter 3: Low-Cost Strategies II: Delivering Low Costs Through Minimizing Product Proliferation 49
Chapter 4: Differentiation Strategies I: Effective Human Resource Strategies 81
Chapter 5: Differentiation Strategies II: Enhancing the Service Experience 111
Chapter 6: Differentiation Strategies III: Developing and Maintaining a Strong Private Label Program 141
Chapter 7: Implementing Cost-, Differentiation-, and Value-Based Retail Strategies 173
Appendix: Individual and Composite Financial Performance, Customer Service, and Worker Satisfaction Metrics of the Best-Practice Retailers 203
Index 229
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Competing in Tough Times: Business Lessons from L.L.Bean, Trader Joe's, Costco, and Other World-Class Retailers, CourseSmart eTextbook
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$23.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-273684-8
