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Marketing
Chapter 13 Terms
Question | Answer |
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Distribution Function | Involves determining the best methods and procedures to use so that prospective consumers can locate, obtain, and use a business's products and services. |
Direct Channel | The producer sells the product to final consumers. |
Indirect Channel | Includes other businesses between the producer and consumer. |
Channel Captain | Takes responsibility to identify channel members, assign distribution activities, help members agree on performance standards, and facilitate communication among channel members. |
Wholesalers | Companies that assist with distribution activites between businesses. |
Wholesale member clubs | Businesses that offer a variety of consumer products to members through a warehouse outlet. |
Retailer | The final business organization in an indirect channel of distribution for consumer products. |
Inventory Shrinkage | A loss of products due to theft, fraud, negligence, or error. |
Specialty of limited line-retailers | Offer products from one category of merchandise or closely related item. |
Mixed merchandise retailers | Offer products from several different categories. |
Service retailers | This has services as their primary offering with a limited number of products for sale that complement the services. |
Non-store retailing | Involves selling directly to the consumer at home rather than requiring the consumer to travel to a store. |
Franchising | A business relationship in which the developer of a business idea sells others the rights to the business idea and the use of the business name. |
Atmospherics | The elements of the shopping environment that are appealing to customers, attract them to a store, and encourage them to buy. |
Physical distribution | the process of efficiently and effectively moving products and materials through the distribution channel. |
Distribution center | A facility used to accumulate products from several sources and then regroup, repackage, and send them as quickly as possible to the locations where they will be used. |