Article ID: | iaor19951587 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Start Page Number: | 82 |
End Page Number: | 84 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
Journal: | Management Today |
Authors: | Brown Malcolm |
Keywords: | retailing |
Margins in logistics are falling as contracts with grocery firms in the U.K. mature and one-off cost savings vanish. But the big supermarkets should be useful as a springboard into new areas, particularly in the non-food sector of retailing, where profits may be easier to come by.