Exam 15: Distributing Products

Sav-U-More Grocery Store sells a wide range of foods and household supplies to households in Miller's Creek,a suburb of a large city.The store advertises that its prices are much lower than the prices charged by larger supermarket chains in the area.This low price approach means that Sav-U-More is a classic example of a merchant wholesaler.

Unlike merchant wholesalers,___________ never actually own the goods they help to distribute.

Direct selling is a distribution strategy that makes extensive use of the Internet and telephone.

In today's competitive market environment,traditional retailers will need to put more emphasis on providing form and place utility,and less emphasis on service utility.

When firms manage the return of goods from consumers either because they are defective or for recycling purposes,they are involved in:

Firms that rely on electronic retailing are almost guaranteed success because they give companies easy access to literally millions of consumers all over the world.

In a(n)____________ distribution system all of the organizations in the channel of distribution are owned by one firm.

When marketing intermediaries perform the steps necessary to transfer ownership from one party to another,they are providing _________ utility.

Which of the following statements about kiosks and carts is the most accurate?

Companies who send salespeople to customers' homes or places of work are making use of __________ selling.

Saul-Mart is the name of a new chain of discount stores.A major part of Saul-Mart's competitive strategy is likely to be based on keeping its prices lower than those of other types of retailers.

The two basic types of warehouses are:

Water transportation is the least expensive way to send goods overseas.

In the Reaching Beyond Our Borders box in the chapter,Coca-Cola found out that more than 80 percent of the developing world's customers buy products from very small entrepreneurs rather than larger stores.

A distribution warehouse stores products for relatively long periods of time.

A distribution strategy that puts the product into as many retail outlets as possible is known as an intensive distributive strategy.

The major disadvantage of multilevel marketing is that the high entry cost for most sellers means that only relatively wealthy individuals can use this approach.

Jen Carter is trying to find ways to improve her firm's movement of materials and goods from its warehouse to the factory floor.Jen is looking into ways of making her firm's __________ more efficient.

Supply chain management manages the movement of relevant information as well as the movement of parts and finished goods through all organizations involved in the supply chain.

Which of the following statements about wholesaler-sponsored chains is most accurate? In a wholesaler-sponsored chain all stores: