Word list

1. accelerate rapidly

2. accounts at the telecommunication merchandiser

3. accurate sales figures

4. alternative systems are under study

5. assemble the goods from a fully automated warehouse

6. assortment

7. be partially stymied by the consumer's desire

8. be sharply curtailed

9. be under way

10. breadth of choice

11. catch on

12. competitive

13. complement, but not replace, existing forms of nonstore retailing

14. consumer

15. consumer demand for

16. contrasting perspective

17. conventional concept of retailing

18. data exchange

19. delivery charge

20. delivery time requirements

21. direct-mail selling

22. direct-mail selling

23. discerning

24. discount and mass-merchandise stores

25. distribution system

26. diversified

27. diversity of merchandise

28. door-to-door selling

29. doubt the viability of

30. enable changes in buying habits

31. energy shortages and costs

32. enter the work force

33. expand from three to five times faster than

34. fall far short of

35. feel pressure on profit margins

36. financial organization

37. forecast the advent of

38. foresee many important changes

39. fuel economies

40. further self-development

41. gain market share from

42. handle money transfers

43. hard to come by

44. high sales volume to offset low prices

45. ignore the developments

46. in-home video display catalog

47. instigator

48. keep abreast of technological developments

49. key conditions underlying traditional retailing

50. lower net volume

51. make every attempt to

52. make it possible

53. merchandise mix

54. non-store annual sales

55. non-store retailer

56. opinions range from extreme skepticism to confident belief

57. order merchandise

58. participating retailer

59. payment

60. payment arrangements

61. pick up the order at a nearby distribution point

62. pickup

63. probable outcomes

64. production

65. produce a higher rate of product returns, repairs, and exchanges

66. proliferate in numbers

67. purchase without regard to style, fashion, or social meaning

68. push up operating costs

69. retail executives

70. retail purchasing

71. retail transactions

72. retail-related industries

73. retailing

74. rise of non-store retailing

75. rule it out

76. see as a virtual certainty

77. store-based retailers

78. store-dominated world of retailing

79. telecommunication

80. telecommunication merchandiser

81. telephone- and mail-generated orders

82. the nature of retail competition

83. threaten the retailer's competitive health

84. time-saving convenience

85. traditional promotion and distribution tools

86. traditional store outlet

87. transfer funds

88. understand the dimensions of

89. warehousing

90. will be involved simultaneously rather than sequentially