Question

“Japanese retailing may be going through a change similar to that which occurred in the United States after World War II.” Discuss and give examples.

Answer 1

At that time U.S. retailing strucccture was made of many small retailers served by a multilayered wholesaleing system and full service department stores and speciially stores offering all the feeds of the shopper from soup to nuts including a long list of services. resa;e price maintenace laws allowed national manufacturers to dictate high retail prices necessary to support at inefficient distribution system and amenties which when offered the opportunity the consumer vvias willing to give up for lower prices. HIgh margins were an attraction to the discounter who offered few.. department stores and other traditional retailer fought back with attempts to enforce fairr trade laws. when that failed, they also began to discount items but found United states began to change. some traditional stores went out of business, others down sized and dropped entire liness, others reinvented themselves into diferent operations and many of the small mom and pop stores went out of business.