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nAmlBIA untVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCESAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING, LOGISTICSAND SPORT MANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BBMA
COURSE CODE: BRM711S
LEVEL: 7
COURSE NAME: RETAIL MANAGEMENT
SESSION: JUNE 2024
PAPER: THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS: 100
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER{S) Mr. S TJITAMUNISA
MODERATOR: Mr. R RITTER
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Write clearly and neatly.
3. Number the answers clearly.
4. Detach the table on page 07 to answer the multiple choice and true or
false questions and attach it to your answer sheet.
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 7 PAGES {including this front page)
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SECTIONA
ANALYTICALQUESTIONS
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Question 1:
10 marks
Discusshow a situation analysis will differ for a major bookstore chain and an on line book retailer?
Question 2:
10 marks
Will the time come when most consumer purchases are made with self-scanners? Explain your
answer.
Question 3:
What are the pros and cons of Avon using dual marketing system?
10 marks
Question 4
20 marks
Hill Kazapua is the store manager at a camera shop. She has saved N$100,000 and wants to open her
own store. Devise an overall strategy for Hill, including each of the controllable and uncontrollable
factors in your answer.
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SECTIONB
MULTIPLECHOICEQUESTIONS (20x1.5) = 30 Marks
Use the Table on page 7 to answer and detach, hand in with your answer sheet.
1. Which of the following activities does not fit within the scope of retailing?
A) medical services to families
B) direct-to-home sales
C) vending purchases by factory workers
D) sales to wholesalers
2. A retailer often must limit its selection of brands in ____
A) wide
B) intensive
C) selective
D) exclusive
distribution.
3. Which of the following is not part of the total retail experience for a men's clothing retailer?
A) offering store credit
B) corporate form of ownership
C) the store's atmosphere
D) the brands carried.
4. The minimum value chain elements a given customer segment expects from a type of
retailer is a(n) ___ _
A) proposed retail strategy
B) augmented retail strategy
C) expected retail strategy
D) potential retail strategy
5. A retailer seeks to maximize the profitability of its inventory assortment through ___ _
A) Efficient Consumer Response
B) category management
C) optimal space planning
D) everyday low pricing
6. Planning authority is limited to top management or ownership in a(n) ___ _
A) professional manager system
B) owner-manager system
C) centralized system
D) decentralized system
7. Hotel and motel franchises represent what type of structural arrangement?
A) voluntary wholesaler-retailer
B) cooperative wholesaler-retailer
C) service sponsor-retailer
D) manufacturer-retailer
8. In most situations, leased departments have been used by existing retailers to ___ _
A) improve the store's overall image by emphasizing fashion.
B) deepen the merchandise assortment in selected merchandise categories
C) broaden their offerings into product categories that are on the fringe of the store's
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major product lines
D) generate rental income from "dead" space
9. According to the wheel of retailing theory, as retail innovators mature, they ___ _
A) increase their market share at the expense of high-cost, full-service retailers
B) reduce customer services to concentrate on the price-conscious customer segment
C) further reduce price levels to maintain their low-cost competitive advantage
D) increase their services which leads to higher prices
10. In the long-run, scrambled merchandising is ____
A) low-end
B) nondistinctive
C) contagious
D) self-defeating
in nature.
11. Which strategy represents diversification?
A) electronic retailing
B) direct retailing
C) single-channel retailing
D) multi-channel retailing
12. Which customer classification is least likely to respond to a direct marketer's efforts?
A) regulars
B) nonregulars
C) trivia I buyers
D) nonrespondents
13. Discretionary income can be defined as ___ _
A) take-home pay
B) take-home pay that is adjusted to reflect inflation
C) take-home pay that is adjusted to reflect a base year
D) money left over after paying taxes and buying necessities
14. A consumer's decision process is comprised of two parts: ____
A) purchase; postpurchase behavior
B) the process itself; the factors affecting the process
C) need recognition; stimuli
D) demographics; psychographics
and ___ _
15. A person who values the status of goods, services, and retailers ___ _
A) has high self-confidence
B) has low perceived risk
C) is class conscious
D) is sociable
16. Which of these is not a benefit of the use of a retail information system?
A) Opportunities can be foreseen.
B) The initial time and labor investment is low.
C) Crises can be avoided.
D) The elements of a retail strategy can be coordinated.
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17. The use of micromarketing is an example of which target marketing strategy?
A) undifferentiated marketing
B) mass marketing
C) concentrated marketing
D) differentiated marketing
18. A major benefit of a thorough trading-area analysis is that it allows a retailer to ___ _
A) increase sales at branch stores with high trading-area overlap
B) better match its target market profile with a medium's circulation
C) increase the degree of trading overlap among branch units
D) better understanding of an area's lifestyles
19. A major disadvantage to an isolated store location is that ___ _
A) competition with adjacent retailers is high
B) on an ongoing basis, many people will not travel very far to shop in just one store
C) rental costs are generally relatively high
D) leases can restrict store operations and merchandise carried
20. Which unplanned shopping district has at least one department store and a number of
specialty and convenience stores?
A) string
B) central business district
C) secondary business district
D) regional shopping center
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SECTIONC
TRUE OR FALSE
(20x1=20 Marks)
Use the Table on page 7 to answer and detach, hand in with your answer sheet.
No. Question
1.1
Manufacturers, wholesalers, and importers perform retail activities when they sell
goods and services to final consumers.
1.2
A retailer that uses a "bricks-and-clicks" strategy consisting of traditional stores, as well
as a Web site, engages in multi-channel retailing.
1.3
The perishability of services prevents the shifting of services from low to high demand
periods.
1.4
Customer loyalty programs are based on the concept of reinforcing a consumer's
purchasing activity.
1.5
Consumerism is a broader concept than social responsibility.
1.6
Consumers' perceived store images for a retailer and its competitors can be visualized
through use of a positioning map.
1.7
A retailer can anticipate and avoid crises through strategic retail planning.
1.8
Examples of negative feedback include consumer complaints, chronic out-of-stock
situations, and declining sales.
1.9
Maximum channel control occurs in an independent vertical marketing system.
1.10 Exclusive distribution, fully integrated vertical marketing systems, and franchising are
used by manufacturers to increase their channel control.
1.11 Off-price chains typically purchase their merchandise through traditional wholesale
channels.
1.12 The best areas of a store are assigned to merchandise space.
1.13 A retailer can improve its retail productivity by changing the merchandise mix,
improving sales training, and utilizing new technologies.
1.14 A power center is a form of regional shopping center.
1.15 A secondary business district generally exists in the part of a city or town with the
greatest concentration of office buildings and retail stores.
1.16 In planning a purchase motivation product grouping, a retailer needs to classify retail
areas into low versus high-traffic locations.
1.17 All surveys involve some form of interviewing procedure.
1.18 An effective retail information system should contain both continuous data and market
research.
1.19 Much internal secondary data relating to sales are now computer-based due to the
widespread acceptance of the Universal Product Code.
1.20 Trading-area analysis is useful in determining waste in specific media.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS/TRUE AND FALSE
Student no ......................................................
(30+20}=50 Marks
Section B (Multiple Questions) (1.SX20} =30
Section C (True and False) 20 marks
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