Retailing

Magazine articles on retailing.

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BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Dexter Roberts	China: The Next Big Conquest? For retailers, doing business in China is tough stuff. But with a $370 billion market up for grabs, Wal-Mart and its competitors know it's worth the trouble.
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 David Fairlamb	A Bumpy Ride in Europe Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s experiences in Germany and Britain couldn't be more different.
Entrepreneur October 2003 Melissa Campanelli	Culture Club Many e-tailers are lining up to target the growing Hispanic market. It's a good idea, right?
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003	Sanjay Sarma, MIT's AutoID Center Sanjay Sarma helped create RFID, a new technology to track products from the factory to the warehouse to the retail shelf. It's designed to keep shelves full as well as reduce loss, theft, and inventory costs for retailers and their suppliers.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003	Linda Dillman, Wal-Mart Stores Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman is setting the technology agenda not just for Wal-Mart but for the whole $2.7 trillion U.S. retail industry.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003	Michael Dell, Dell At age 38, Michael S. Dell is the master of electronic business. Now he's carrying his network magic to the next level. At a time when many tech companies are paring costs, Dell is piling on new manufacturing supply-chain technology.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003	Joe Fedele, FreshDirect Grocery shopping over the Net looked like an idea that got buried in the dot-com rubble. Now, however, Joe Fedele is rekindling hopes that people across the country will be able to stock their refrigerators without darkening a grocery's doors.
CIO September 15, 2003 John Edwards	Future Shop To find the "store of the future," you'll have to travel to Rheinberg, Germany. That's where Metro Group, the world's fifth largest retailer, has created a convenience store to serve as a real-world test bed for a variety of advanced retailing technologies.
Job Journal September 7, 2003 Lacey Salter	Try Retailing On for Size Retail is ringing up sales -- and recruiting new staff.
HBS Working Knowledge September 1, 2003 Jonathan Byrnes	Who Will Profit From Auto-ID? Is Auto-ID hype or is it for real? For several years, many top managers have asked this question about radio-frequency ID tags, called Auto-ID, under development by a global consortium of universities, companies, and organizations.
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