Small town consumers value personalized customer service, a sense of community, and convenience in their retail experiences. They tend to prioritize local businesses that offer unique products and a connection to the community over larger chain stores. Additionally, affordability and accessibility are key factors for small town consumers when choosing where to shop.
Retailing is the economic activity of selling goods in small quantities to end users or consumers.
Suggest three of the most important government characteristics for successful small business development.
Retailing is one of the most common forms of small enterpreneurship that deals with all the activities involved in selling goods and services directly to the consumer. -Matthew Chavez
So the people can afford to buy a product by piece or small numbers or quantitieswh
-Order sizes tend to be small but many -Caters to a wide variety of customers. Keeps a large assortment of goods -Lot of buying in the outlet is 'impulse'- inventory management is critical -Selling personnel and displays are important elements of the selling process -Strengths in 'availability' and 'visibility' -Targeted customer mix decides the marketing mix of the retailer
sba, sbic, score
Zooplankton
Copepods are considered to be primary consumers. They form an important link in the food chain. Their diet consists of small plant plankton.
Robert K. Berry has written: 'Trends and problems in small unit retailing in Britain'
Penguins are not a primary consumer. They are known as secondary consumers as they eat small fish. Those small fish are primary consumers.
A small scale business enterprise is one that employs 6 to 29 employees excluding fixed assets land, building and vehicles with cash not exceeding $ 100,000 we have hundreds of the characteristics of small scale business enterprises and these been categorized. Namely they are labour,sector activities, gender of owner and efficiency characteristics. LABOUR :this is a one man working business and the one man is referred as the proprietor. About 50% of Ghanaian business enterprises are small scale. Family members constitute 25% of the labour and are always unpaid labour who work actively. they some employ hired labour which constitute 12.5% of its labour. And apprenticeship and trainees also provides 12.5% of its labour. the advantage attached to this is that one do not need huge sums of capital to begin. In addition is the SECTOR ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTICS. This category is mainly and mostly engaged in retailing, trading and manufacturing. NB. in Ghana my country most are into retailing. This category depend largely on the availability of raw materials,taste and consumption pattern of consumers and level of development of export market. Furthermore, we have the GENDER OF OWNER. It is about a particular sex being majority in a small scale business enterprise. Majority of these people are females and are engaged in trading in Ghana. they are mostly home base are not captured or considered by official statistics.Business are found in front of houses. The have lower chance of accessing financial assistance because they lack equilateral for loans. Finally is the EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISTICS. This category lay emphasis on labour productivity. every industry is sustainable if they are able to increase productivity.
Sample-a small group selected by researchers to represent the most important characteristics of an entire population. (according to my book)