Retail Management – Retail as a Career – Part. 2

This is the second installation in a series that we are doing on retail management. We recommend that you read our first article, Introduction to Retail in General – Part. 1 if you have not already.
In this article  Retail Management – Retail as a Career – Part. 2 we will go over the different titles, tasks and duties for those running or managing a retail location. Retail is a people-centric industry, and is one industry which simultaneously can expose you to many skills and disciplines. It offers many choices in terms of a career, chief among them are buying and merchandising, marketing, store operations, finance, human resources, technology and e-commerce, visual merchandising and finally supply chain management and logistics.