Shopping Today
Laurence Neal
In England at present there is one shop to about every eighty people. This evening, in the second talk in this new series, Laurence Neal is to discuss the extraordinarily varied types of shops there are - street market, small independent shop, speciality shop, department store, multiple shop, fixed price store, factory-to-consumer shop, co-operative movement, club trading, mail orders, door-to-door selling. Why are there so many different ways of selling ? What has each of these types to offer that the others haven't? Is the variety too great to be efficient ?