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Trading Areas

Geographic area from which a company draws most of it's business.

Fringe Trading Areas

All remaining percentage of store's customers. Not main customer base.

Parasite Store

Do not create their own traffic and have no real trading area of their own.

Destination Store

They generate trading areas much larger than their competitors.

Centralized Buying Organization

Finding the best deals with local vendors for the corresponding location for the company department.

Staple Merchandise

Regular products carried by a retailer.



Micromerchandising

Retailers adjust shelf-spaceallocations to respond to customer differences and other differences amonglocal markets.

Saturated Area

Number of persons per area

Cooperative Buying

agree to aggregate demand to get lower prices from selected suppliers

Analog model of site selection

simplest.Revenue estimates based on similar stores, competition, expected market share,size and population density

Primary Trading Area

50-80% of a store's customers

Geographic Informations Systems

Digitized mapping with keylocation-specific data used to graphically depict trading-area characteristicssuch as opopulation demographicsodata on customer purchasesolistings of current, proposed, andcompetitor locations

Merchandising

the activity of promoting the sale of goods, especially by their presentation in retail outlets.



Retail Assortment Strategy

The number and type of products displayed by retailers for purchase by consumers.

Product Life Cycle

Introduction, growth, maturity, decline

Forecasting

utilizing existing data to predict future events and, more specifically, consumer behavior

Scrambled Merchandising

retail business offers a mix of unrelated products that do not reflect the company's original focus.

Complimentary Goods

a complementary good orcomplement is a good with a negative cross elasticity of demand, in contrast to a substitutegood. This means a good's demand is increased when the price of another good is decreased.

Cross Merchandising

Retailers carry complementary goodsand services to encourage shoppers to buy more.