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Daniel Hanks BT160
Consider the impact of Information Communication and Technologies on Retail
What are Information Communication Technologies?
In today’s Society Information Communication Technologies (ICT) are the dominant factor in all fields.
From the basic uses of computers for word processing to international communications for world trade. ...
What is Retail? ...
The history of retail dates back to the roman ages and back then the same principle would have been used.
When ICT’s merge with Retail
The connection between the two is still in its immaturity stage and is improving all the time.
The first noticeable change on retail by ICT’s would have been from barcodes and the use of them in shops
and supermarkets. ... The involvement with ICT’s and this system was to reduce customer waiting
times and product life cycles. ...
Credit cards have made an influential part on today’s retail. ...
The introduction of the internet has brought more influence into modern retail than any other new
investment. ...
Impacts on Retail
Looking closely on the changes above there have been good and bad impacts that effect not only the
business but the political and environmental areas.
The Barcode situation or otherwise known as POS, Point of Sale first emerged from American railroads
then to groceries in 1973. ... Any retail
member of staff would need to do accounting, invoicing, and inventory management before the introduction
of Barcode. ... The reason to adopt such technology was to increase speed and accuracy of
procedures at the checkouts, Thus being a huge benefit for retail industries. ...
To summarise the Barcode impact, is that it has always proved to be a most useful invention and is now
used in every day life from stock counting to price checking.
Ken Jones and Jim Simpson (1990) say that transportation effects retail location by changing the slope of
spatial demand curve:

What the above diagram shows is that from the early 1920’s competition from distant supermarkets have
taken effect on local shops near households.
Approximate Word count = 1575
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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