To provide candidates with the fundamental skills in research design and analysis necessary for making sound marketing decisions
Store Design: Meaning, Objectives of Store Design, Store Exterior and Interior
Store Layout: Types, Key factors for developing a layout. Space planning & space performance measures, Planogram
Visual Merchandising: Meaning, Visual merchandising techniques, types of display, fixtures, essentials of good visual merchandising
Atmospherics: Meaning, exterior and interior, color planning
Merchandise security: Customer theft, employee theft, supplier theft, supplier pilferage, shoplifting, security measures
Essential Reading:
1. Swapnapradhan, Retail Management, McGraw Hill
2. Berman and Evans, Retail Management- A strategic approach, MacMillan Publishing Company.
3. Levy and Weitz, Retail Management Tata McGraw Hilice-Hall of India, New Delhi
1.Chetan Singh, Rajneesh Tuli, Nidhi V. Srivastava, Retail Management, Oxford University Press
2.Retail Management, ICFAI Press
3. Andrew J. Newman, Retailing: Environment and Operations, Cengage learning, Delhi.
4. S.K. Baral, S.C. Bihari, Retail Management Text &Cases,A.I.T.B.S. Publishers, Delhi