| RETAILINDUSTRY.COM Directory Resources For Links to these selected sites please click here | |
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| Retail Industry Center | Yahoo's discount and department store retail industry center. You can link to other retail channels they track. |
| EBay's Retail Supplies | Ebay Business runs a wholesale catalog that includes goods across a variety of industries. |
| Corporate Counsel Center - Retail | Findlaw.Com runs a corporate site that has links to various retail resources. |
| Internet.Com E-Commerce Site | Provides an e-commerce and e-retail guide with links to articles and how-to's. |
| NPN - Experts Online | National Petroleum News runs this site where experts in all facets of C-store/Petroleum operations will answer questions online. Past Q&A posted by category and expert. |
| Retail Interactive | A portal site for Canadian retailers run by the Industry Canada and The Retail Council of Canada. |
| The Association of American Railroads | The Association of American Railroads represents the freight railroad companies in the United States, Canada and Mexico. |
| AdAge.Com | Most of the content at the Advertising Age site costs $ but it's a good place to start searcing for detailed advertising data. |
| Legal Guide for Advertisers | A Guide To key legal issues in advertising. Published by AdLaw.Com , this handbook serves a a good reference tool for marketers. |
| AIM | The Association for Automatic Identification and Data Capture Collection (AIM is the global trade association of providers and users of components, networks, systems, and services that manage the collection and integration of data with information management systems. |
| American Wholesale Marketers Association | The American Wholesale Marketers Association (AWMA) is the only international trade organization working on behalf of convenience distributors in the United States. Its distributor members represent more than $45 billion in U.S. convenience product sales. |
| CBS MarketWatch (retailers) | This page keeps track of the best and the worst performing retail stocks that make up the Dow Jones Retail Index. |
| Bureau of Labor: Retail Industry Stats | The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides an overview of employment data specific to the retail trade -also a handy link to Latest Data. |
| Modern Bulk Transporter | Trade magazine covers issues related to liquid and dry bulk logistics industry. |
| WSJ's Grocery Salary Review | Wall Street Journal Page that provides some interesting data outlining salary estimates for execs in the Grocery biz. |
| WSJ's Career Journal Site | This Wall Street Journal site posts the results from the "2003 Multi-Outlet Retailer Compensation Survey". |
| Retail Trade Economic Indicators | The US Census Bureau site provides up to date monthly and annual retail sales figures by various categories as well as some wholesale numbers. |
| Association of Coupon Professionals | A trade organization for marketing professionals who work or have interests in the consumer promotion business. |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission | The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products. |
| CSP Net | This is the companion website to CSP Magazine. It provides daily news, features, and resources for executives in the C-Store/Petroleum retail trade. |
| C-Store Retailers | This page, hosted by c-store.com, provides links to the websites of nearly all major c-store operators. |
| National Association of Convenience Stores | NACS is an international trade association representing 2,300 retail and 1,700 supplier companies doing business in the Convenience Store and Petroleum ends of the trade. |
| Display & Design Ideas | Display & Design Ideas is a magazine for store designers and visual merchandisers. |
| DeadMalls.Com | Site run by former retailers that tracks defunct shopping centers, malls, amd retail sites. |
| Dept. of Labor ELAWS | This site is run by the department of Labor and features interactive tools that provide information about Federal employment. |
| DSN What's News | Discount Retailing News Magazine's News wire. |
| In-Store Surveys | DSN has posted a number of In Store pricing and productivity surveys in PDF format. Includes surveys of KMart and Target. |
| Store Design Prototypes | This site, run by DSN Retailing Today catalogs store designs and prototypes by major retailers. You can review pictures of each store and learn a bit about each retailer's design strategy. |
| E-business Realities for Wholesale Distribution | This is a link to a Pembroke Consulting article from 2000 that explores how e-commerce affects distributors. NOTE: PDF file."> |
| Food Distributors International | Food Distributors International is a trade association comprised of food distribution companies that supply and service independent grocers and foodservice operations throughout the United States, Canada and 19 other countries. |
| First Gov | The US Government has done a good job of putting business and trade information on-line. The best way to find government data is to go to use the FirstGov Search engine (type Retail; retail data; retail statistics, etc). In addition to finding Federal data, you can also find state-specific data. |
| Food Marketing Institute | Food Marketing Institute is the premier association representing various facets of the food retailing trade. |
| FMI's Supermarket Glossary | This on-line glossary list defines all sorts of supermarket and food industry terms. |
| FMI's Key Facts | Food Marketing Institute's Facts & Figures - The truth is that there's not a lot of great websites that do a good job in providing a current overview of the supermarket and grocery business. FMI's Facts & Figures site is one of the better ones. |
| FMI's HR Site | The Food Marketing Institute Human Resources site provides an overview of FMI training programs, publications, and other resources. Some content is for members only. |