Many categories of middlemen can act in a distribution channel. We consider that the efficiency of a distribution channel is strongly connected with the number, kind and even identity of the middlemen that form it. The pattern analysis of the middlemen who acts in the distribution channel...

In the analysis of economic stability an important part is owned by consumer prices. The present study is devoted to an analysis of the evolution of CPI and inflation rate in the Rumanian economy. The analysis uses annual and monthly series for the period January 2000 - December 2010.

After the second World War, the classic supermarket innovated with the introduction of self service. Since then the notions of „supermarket” and „self-service” have become synonymous in the mind of large sections of the population. The corner shops have, in the mean time, developed into...