Retail Marketing (Sales Specialist) Grade 3 | Types of Retailing Questions

Retailing offers goods in the place, at the time and in the quantities that make them easy for consumers to buy.

Wholesaling supports distribution through collection, breaking bulk, holding stock, logistics and the provision of information.

The emphasis is on everyday convenience through location, opening hours, assortment and services.

It offers everyday goods, food above all, on a self-service basis.

It offers departments covering clothing, food and household goods together with service at the counter and ancillary services.

Its strengths are a rich assortment and specialist knowledge in a particular category.

The head office and franchisee contract with one another, the one providing know-how and brand and the other paying for them.

It is an organization securing the benefits of scale through cooperation while the members remain independent.

Mail order, door-to-door selling, vending machines and the like are forms of selling that do not go through a permanent store.

The aim is that customers can search, buy, collect and return conveniently even as they move between channels.