This textbook contains material for use in training workers in a modern retail drugstore. The material emphasizes selling, merchandising, and promotional activities in an establishment that has a sizable inventory of nondrug-related merchandise as well as non-prescription drugs. Addressed in the individual units are the following topics: drugstore…

Developing a strong rapport with salesmen is the purchasing director's best procurement strategy. (Editor)

Discusses the field of marketing as a career option. Includes information on all the different aspects of marketing as well as earnings and educational requirements. Has a section of resources for more information. (JOW)

Biographies are an important resource for extending and differentiating the curriculum for high-ability learners. To include biography in curriculum, educators need answers to the following four questions: (1) How are commercially available biographies located?; (2) What criteria are useful in selecting biographies for high-ability learners?; (3)…

Sensing that their libraries are in competition with local bookstores that offer leisurely atmospheres, warm aromatic drinks, and prominently displayed books and other materials by genre, many librarians have considered "shelving" the Dewey decimal system in order to rearrange their libraries in a similar fashion. The author of this article, a…

Through museum and shopping mall and the possibilities, subtleties, banalities and disparities of reconciliation in South Africa and Australia, this paper immerses itself in the question of pedagogies and in particular the pedagogies of reconciliation, public spaces and postcolonialism. In both Australia and South Africa postcolonialism as theory…

Providing a degree of service to both students and faculty, the school-store concept offers educational relevance rarely achieved in other departments of the comprehensive modern high school. (Author)

Excerpts from a talk presented at the Third Annual Industry Seminar sponsored by the American School Food Service Assn. in Vail, Colorado, Sept. 23-27, 1968.

Describes the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) effort to develop productivity measures for an increasing number of service industries. Discusses problems of measuring productivity and explains how BLS is working to overcome those problems. (JOW)

Improvement of turnover (the rate of merchandise activity in a store) can mean more sales and more profits for college stores. Some ways to improve merchandise turnover include improved store layout, merchandise mix, and purchasing techniques. (MLW)