LaingR. Stanley, “Tomorrow's Retail Systems,” address to the Ninth Annual EDP Conference for Retailers, Retail Research Institute, National Retail Merchants Association (NRMA), Sept. 26, 1967.
2.
For example, see “EDP's Major Justification: Merchandise Control,”Chain Store Age, April 1962, pp. E21–E23.
3.
Standard Classifications (New York: NRMA, 1967).
4.
Controllers' Congress, Merchandising and Operating Results of Department and Specialty Stores in 1966 (New York: NRMA, 1967), p. 2.
Data in this paragraph are provided by the data processing manager of a leading department store. The name of the individual and his firm are withheld by request.
8.
For example, see DavidsonWilliam R.DoodyAlton F., Retailing Management (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1966), pp. 404–405.
9.
Albert I. Schott as quoted in Putting Classification Merchandising to Work (New York: NRMA, 1967), p. 20.
10.
BaylisGeorge, “Are the Brakes Too Tight to Let the Train Roll?”Retail Control, Oct. 1965, p. 18.
11.
EbertCarroll E., “Merchandise Classification,”ibid., Feb. 1966, p. 23.
12.
Authors' conversation with John Bradley, Controller of Rich's.
13.
WaterburyEdward S., “Gathering Classification Data by Manual and Mechanical Systems,”Retail Control, Feb. 1966, p. 20.
14.
BurstonWilliam in Standard Classifications, p. 31.
15.
Putting Classification Merchandising to Work, p. 65.
16.
BuchanKoenigsburg, p. 75.
17.
See GoldeRoger A., “Practical Planning for Small Business,”Harvard Business Review, XLII:6 (Nov.-Dec. 1964), 148
