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Retailer managers are relying less and less on their “gut” and past experience; lean retailers are increasingly using more sophisticated statistical models, even in the risky realm of nonreplenishables, to help guide stocking decisions.
We obtained nearly identical microarray hybridizations using cDNA prepared from skeletal muscle mRNA from lean (Fa/Fa) versus obese (fa/fa) Zucker rats at an age of 6 weeks (the age at which phenotypic differences between fa/fa and Fa/Fa are thought to begin).
47 Thus, although Internet retailing will certainly grow as a channel of distribution, the most essential longer term developments will involve the expansion of lean retailing principles to a wider and wider variety of goods sold by a decreasing number of major retailers.
The reliance of lean retailing on the promulgation of standards of performance has been well documented in this book.
Chapter 4 (“The Building Blocks of Lean Retailing”) describes how the essential elements of lean retailing—bar codes, EDI, the modern distribution center, and standards across firms—fit together.