... to start retail operations in India. The company also delayed its retail plans to focus on launching cash and carry (wholesale) operations. The world's second biggest supermarket group by sales is negotiating with over six Indian companies including diversified business groups, retailers and mall owners...

... as a multiple‐channel facility – checkouts at a supermarket for example. Where services are arranged in series it is referred to as a multiple‐stage facility – for example, an order processing routine which requires the order to pass through several departments – the sales department, the warehouse...

...; but that stores will expand product lines, particularly in non‐food items. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Retailing Supermarkets United Kingdom Grocery industry Strategic choice STRATEGIC CHANGES IN UK GROCERY RETAILING 45 W hat are the present trends and future prospects of the UK grocery trade...