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Raphel, Murray. "Little David was small but oh, my. (small retailers face competition from department stores)." Direct Marketing. Hoke Communications, Inc. 1990. HighBeam Research. 26 Apr. 2018 <https://www.highbeam.com>.
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By Murray Raphel "Since 1977, newspapers have lost $3 billion of advertising revenue to television and direct mail. And most of it to direct mail."
- McCann-Erickson "Nobody has opened a new department store in the past 40 years." - Bob Zimmerman, marketing consultant
The small retailer faces two giants in his day-to-day battle for survival: and their names are department store and newspaper.
Can the small retailer take on these two giants and succeed?
Will these giants go the way of their now extinct prehistoric ancestors, the dinosaurs?
Is there a technique, idea, weapon sling shot?) the small retailer can use?
The answers to all the questions are yes, maybe and you bet. Let's take the giants one at a time.
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