This resource has detailed informationon retail sales workers. It has sections on the Nature of Work, Working Conditions, Employment, Training Job Outlook, Earnings, Related Occupations, and Sources of Additional Information.

Retail robots are promising to free up workers from routine tasks, presumably giving humans more time for customer interaction. But that's only the beginning of what robots will do. The real benefit of retail robots will be the...

Read about the career of a retail store manager. This resource provides information on duties, working conditions, skills, education, employment, and skills.

Covers skills that may be needed to work in retail.

Wartime posed many challenges for the retail industry. This brief record includes the contributions of women as they stepped into positions vacated by men who enlisted.

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Defines inflation as well as the retail price index. This site also provides a graph of the RPI from 1979-1997. With links to inflation worksheets.

This resource provides examples of business plans for a manufacturing, service, and retail business. Business plan financials for each of these business types are linked.

Expectations of being a butcher, requirements,understanding of the beef market, and more are discovered in this biographical sketch of butcher, Charles Delahunt.

This site from Crime Doctor describes shoplifting, how it occurs, and security measures retail store operators can take to reduce it. Additional links to related shoplifting topics are included.

This article, which is provided for by BizMove.com, gives advice on developing an improved personal selling program.

This site contains information on the career of a buyer. Read about the job itself, tasks and duties, education needed, working conditions, and more.

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Science Buddies offers a profile of what it is like to have a career as a pharmacist. Find out the education requirements and the on the job duties of a pharmacist in both a retail and hospital setting. Included are interviews with...

Article reports on Amazon's announcement that it plans to work toward using drones for the delivery of some producs purchased via the online retailer. Includes a brief video.

What is the whole story about Wal-Mart's success and its founder, Sam Walton? Discover the whole history of one of the biggest retailers of the Twenty-first Century here.

Card Watch is the UK banking industry's body that works with police, retailers and organisations including Crimestoppers to fight plastic card fraud. The site is a useful source of information on payment card fraud and its prevention.

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Housed at the Mann Library, this resource contains a comprehensive set of books and journals in the field of Home Economics, many available online. Each subject area in the field has a descriptive essay plus a bibliography related to...

Ellen Dunham-Jones takes a look at how shopping has evolved over the past few decades and discusses what's to come of dying malls, dead "big box" stores, and empty parking lots. [19:24]

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