The steady growth of retail trade, which reflects the general rise in the population's living standard and cultural level, is accompanied by substantial changes in the value and physical structure of the goods sold. These changes are predetermined by numerous factors, the most important of which...

A basic feature of the socialist consumer goods market is that the production of the goods and effective demand are formed and coordinated on a planned basis and are the immediate objects of national economic planning. The concrete expression of this interrelationship is: the plans of consumer...