1. accelerate rapidly
2. accounts at the telecommunication merchandiser
3. accurate sales figures
4. alternative systems are under study
5. assemble the goods from a fully automated warehouse
6. assortment
7. be partially stymied by the consumer's desire
8. be sharply curtailed
9. be under way
10. breadth of choice
11. catch on
12. competitive
13. complement, but not replace, existing forms of nonstore retailing
14. consumer
15. consumer demand for
16. contrasting perspective
17. conventional concept of retailing
18. data exchange
19. delivery charge
20. delivery time requirements
21. direct-mail selling
22. direct-mail selling
23. discerning
24. discount and mass-merchandise stores
25. distribution system
26. diversified
27. diversity of merchandise
28. door-to-door selling
29. doubt the viability of
30. enable changes in buying habits
31. energy shortages and costs
32. enter the work force
33. expand from three to five times faster than
34. fall far short of
35. feel pressure on profit margins
36. financial organization
37. forecast the advent of
38. foresee many important changes
39. fuel economies
40. further self-development
41. gain market share from
42. handle money transfers
43. hard to come by
44. high sales volume to offset low prices
45. ignore the developments
46. in-home video display catalog
47. instigator
48. keep abreast of technological developments
49. key conditions underlying traditional retailing
50. lower net volume
51. make every attempt to
52. make it possible
53. merchandise mix
54. non-store annual sales
55. non-store retailer
56. opinions range from extreme skepticism to confident belief
57. order merchandise
58. participating retailer
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59. payment
60. payment arrangements
61. pick up the order at a nearby distribution point
62. pickup
63. probable outcomes
64. production
65. produce a higher rate of product returns, repairs, and exchanges
66. proliferate in numbers
67. purchase without regard to style, fashion, or social meaning
68. push up operating costs
69. retail executives
70. retail purchasing
71. retail transactions
72. retail-related industries
73. retailing
74. rise of non-store retailing
75. rule it out
76. see as a virtual certainty
77. store-based retailers
78. store-dominated world of retailing
79. telecommunication
80. telecommunication merchandiser
81. telephone- and mail-generated orders
82. the nature of retail competition
83. threaten the retailer's competitive health
84. time-saving convenience
85. traditional promotion and distribution tools
86. traditional store outlet
87. transfer funds
88. understand the dimensions of
89. warehousing
90. will be involved simultaneously rather than sequentially