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What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything is available to everyone? When the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? This book shows that the future of business does not lie in hits, but in what used to be regarded as misses.

The film of Steve Martin's hugely successful novel stars Steve Martin in the lead role with Claire Danes (TERMINATOR 3, THE HOURS, LITTLE WOMEN) and Bridgette Wilson (THE WEDDING PLANNER, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER).

Presents the author's quest to find out: how some of the giants of commerce turn thousands of average job applicants into loyal-even fanatical-workers; how do they identify and recruit workers who will best fit their companies; and, how do they indoctrinate employees into their corporate cultures and make them perfect messengers of their brands.

Explores identity and truth in the unexpectedly appropriate setting of an office-supply superstore.

Jenna has a holiday job in a shoe shop and finds that she can sell anybody anything. Unfortunately her personal problems are not so easy to sort out. When the company president, Madeline Gladstone, asks Jenna to drive her across the USA to a vital meeting, Jenna jumps at the chance to get away from her family and hit the road. Together the wise old woman and the sensible young woman teach eather .

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world - and nobody has cannibalized market share more ruthlessly or influenced consumers, communities and competition around the world more profoundly than category killers like Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and Costco. This book explores how they did it, and what other companies can glean from their strategies.

America becomes a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box supercent4er down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation. This title shows us how ten communities have addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something else.

The way people buy has changed completely: thanks to blogs and review sites, we don't have to rely on what a company says about its products and services; we can make up our own minds, but many businesses are in denial about it. Crowd Surfing explains what marketers and advertisers need to do to communicate with today's savvier consumers.

Chris Moore tackles death - make that Death - in his latest wonderful, whacked-out yarn.

Suitable for retail students, this book offers a reference guide to the various aspects of visual merchandising. Covering both window dressing and in-store areas, and including a range of stores from fashion emporia to small outlets, it contains practical advice, as well as case studies and hints and tips from established visual merchandisers.

Featuring advice, this work is aimed at independent business owners, many of which are being challenged by chain stores.

Aims to link the ideas behind the area of retail design to its practice. This book includes real-life case studies from architectural firms.

As Britain's population grew and the country became urbanised and industrialised in eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so shops, shopkeepers, and shopworkers also increased in number. This book tells the story of the people who worked in the retail trade from the beginning of the eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century.

This book features the winners of the International Store Interior Design Competition, sponsored by the Institute of Store Planners, New York, and Visual Merchandising and Store Design magazine.

Moms are the decision-makers when it comes to where their families can shop, eat, and go for fun. This title helps to learn what attracts moms and keeps them and their families coming back.

Global Strategies for Food Retailers. Leading international food retailers have in recent years expanded beyond national boundaries and started to operate on a global scale. This book describes the current state of play.

An examination of the economic countertrend whereby middle income consumers have made the art of bargain hunting into a major business opportunity.