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This Chapter considers the strategic role of logistics in retail management. It is concerned with those issues which form the context for restructuring logistical systems. There is also a discussion of distribution models for online purchases.
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FERNIE, J. (2005): Retail Logistics, in: BRUCE, M.; MOORE, C.M.; BIRTWISLE, G. (Eds.): International Retail Management, Amsterdam et al., pp. 39–63.
HINES, T. (2005): The Emergence of Supply Chain Management as a Critical Success Factor for Retail Organisations, in: BRUCE, M.; MOORE, C.M.; BIRTWISLE, G. (Eds.): International Retail Management, Amsterdam et al., pp. 108–122.
PACHÉ, G. (1999): When Logistics Threaten to Become a Source of “Competitive Disadvantage“: The Intermarché Co-operation Case, in: DUPUIS, M.; DAWSON, J. (Eds.): European Cases in Retailing, Oxford, pp. 206–218.
SMITH, D.; SPARKS, L. (2004): Logistics in Tesco: Past, Present and Future, in: FERNIE, J.; SPARKS, L. (Eds.): Logistics and Retail Management, 2nd ed., London et al., pp. 101–120.
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(2007). Logistics — Physical Distribution. In: Strategic Retail Management. Gabler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9272-7_14
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