Talk:Retailing

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Retailing To-do: | edit | history | watch | purge  Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: WikiProject Retailing userbox Copyedit: Target Corporation, Wal-Mart - to be used as an examples for ideal page structure Cleanup: Listings of store locations Expand: Store manager, List of articles on project page, image gallery on project page, Hypermarket (history section), Category killer - This is very US/Canada centric - Ikea exists elsewhere, too. Stubs: Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, Archer Farms, ClearRx Other: Department store - discriminate between itself and Discount store. Category killer - If a Category Killer dominates its area, why are there many stores listed per category? There should be clear criteria for when a store is included, otherwise this just becomes an advertising page.

The psychoogical pricing section should mention the origin of the practice. It began as a method of ensuring that hired workers rang up every sale: if an item is (e.g.) $10, the customer hands over a $10 note and the shop assistant can simply pocket it. If, instead, it is $9.99, the customer still hands over $10 but the shop assistant has to open the cash register to make change, and thus is forced to ring up the sale. Tannin

Done. - Patrick 09:39 31 May 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Phrasing of last sentence

I had fixed up a somewhat sloppy sentence, but it was reverted. Thought I'd discuss it here. This is the sentence as it was, with the previous sentence included for context:

Price discrimination can lead to a bargaining situation often called haggling. At stake is how the total surplus is divided into consumer and producer surplus, with for both parties the "threat" that there is no surplus at all because the sale is off.

Since what I changed it to before was unliked I changed it to somethign different, without removing any of the information. My goal was to remove the phrases 'at stake is...' and 'with for both parties the "threat"...'

Price discrimination can lead to a bargaining situation often called haggling—an argument about how the total surplus will be divided into consumer and producer surplus. Neither party has a big advantage, because the threat of no sale exists, whence the surplus vanishes for both.

—siroχo 23:39, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

I think it is an odd formulation, they are not discussing consumer and producer surplus, although that is at stake (by the way, a term I newly introduced here, to improve on my and your formulation).--Patrick 09:20, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Counter Service Shops

Counter service is not rare at all. In big cities and in Western countries counter service is less common, but throughout the world it is very common indeed.

I have added a link to www.aboutretail.net. I hope this is OK - it is not spam as this site has no advertising nor any endorsements.

82.195.108.123 13:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Donna Byley

[edit] Cleanup

I'm trying to clean up a few things in this article. I wrote my PhD on retailing, and hope to make some of the distinctions here more in line with the scholarly literature. I apologize if I stepped on anybody's toes in my editing, I'm a Wikipedia novice. --Nicolo Machiavelli 11:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)