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Food Marketing Institute
Industry: Retail
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A note on an invoice to a retailer of insufficient or out-of-stock products at a distribution center.
Industry:Retail
A notice from a wholesaler's or chain's headquarters to stores soliciting support and orders for an upcoming special promotion, so the buyer has a basis for determining an order for promotional items.
Industry:Retail
A nongovernmental association that formulates voluntary, national standards, such as electronic data interchange.
Industry:Retail
A no-frills food store that features a limited selection of low-priced merchandise. High-volume sales and lower operating costs offset a smaller profit margin.
Industry:Retail
A non-affliated food store supplied by a wholesaler on a cost-plus basis or by special arrangement. See cost-plus.
Industry:Retail
A newspaper measurement unit, one inch long and one column wide. Ad prices are multiplied by column inches.
Industry:Retail
A newspaper advertisement of two facing pages.
Industry:Retail
A new way of doing business between direct store delivery manufacturers and retailers. It incorporates daily point-of-sale data to pay for product, electronic communication technologies to eliminate discrepancies and inefficiencies, and various store-level operating improvements, such as open delivery windows and elimination of check-in, to speed product flow. "
Industry:Retail
A networking system that links the computer systems of a number of stores on a single leased line. Also called multidrop private network. See frame relay network.
Industry:Retail
A network that connects computers over distances, not within a building.
Industry:Retail