outlet
(noun)
A shop that sells the products of the manufacturers or suppliers that it does business with.
Examples of outlet in the following topics:
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Customer Expectations
- There are many large retail outlets, and most offer a wide variety of products at average prices.
- Department stores, supermarkets, and warehouse stores are all large retail outlets.
- Large retail outlets have some things in common, however.
- Depending on the type of store, these outlets generally focus on one or two categories.
- Mom-and-pop stores, specialty stores, and general stores are all smaller retail outlets.
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Nationalization of the News
- While local news is still available, it is becoming increasingly nationalized and local outlets are being purchased larger, national networks.
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Retail Marketing Strategy
- Department, discount, warehouse, Mom And Pop, specialty, demographic, general, convenience, big box, automated/self serve, hypermarkets, supermarkets, malls and variety stores have adjusted traditional marketing strategies such as print advertising, media buys and in-store campaigns to incorporate the use of new technologies such as online outlets and shopping, email, texting, mobile applications, blogging, QR codes, kiosks, digital signage and online advertising.
- They stock a large array of unique products and sell them in small quantities spread over a number of their outlets while stocking and selling only a few popular items but distributing them in much larger quantities per outlet.
- E-tailing, when customers can shop and order though the Internet and arrange for delivery at their doorstep shares the label as a retail outlet in and of itself as well as a retail marketing strategy.
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Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field
- Due to energy conservation, the energy needed to drive the original current must have an outlet.
- For an inductor, that outlet is the magnetic field—the energy stored by an inductor is equal to the work needed to produce a current through the inductor.
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Overview of Merchandising Operations
- In the supply chain, merchandising is the practice of making products in retail outlets available to consumers, primarily by stocking shelves and displays.
- In the United Kingdom, for example, there are a number of organizations that supply merchandising services to support retail outlets with general stock replenishment and merchandising support for new stores.
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Consumer goods marketing and business-to-business (industrial) marketing
- In addition, consumer goods marketers might employ emotional appeals and are faced with the constant battle of getting their product into retail outlets.
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Creating a Media Plan
- When choosing the media, you not only need to know which media outlets exist, but also which ones suit your product.
- Media outlets which deliver messages involving multiple senses (sight, sound, touch, and smell) will be more expensive than those involving just one sense (sound).
- The quality expectations of the media outlet will influence the cost.
- For example, the quality of ads for national television stations tend to be higher than those for local outlets.
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Distribution Intensity
- In intensive distribution, a producer's products are stocked in the majority of outlets.
- The exact number of outlets in any given market is dependent upon market potential, density of population, dispersion of sales, and the distribution policies of competitors.
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Shopping Products
- The product must be available in every conceivable outlet and must be easily accessible in these outlets.
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Psychology and the Scientific Method: From Theory to Conclusion
- Hypothesis: If something is wrong with the outlet, my coffeemaker also won't work when plugged into it.
- Conclusion: My electrical outlet works, but my toaster still won't toast my bread.