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MANAGER, DEPARTMENT STORE

Specialty Definition: MANAGER, DEPARTMENT STORE

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Occupations

Directs and coordinates, through subordinate managerial personnel, activities of department store selling lines of merchandise in specialized departments: Formulates pricing policies for sale of merchandise, or implements policies set forth by merchandising board. Coordinates activities of nonmerchandising departments, as purchasing, credit, accounting, and advertising with merchandising departments to obtain optimum efficiency of operations with minimum costs in order to maximize profits. Develops and implements, through subordinate managerial personnel, policies and procedures for store and departmental operations and customer personnel and community relations. Negotiates or approves contracts negotiated with suppliers of merchandise, or with other establishments providing security, maintenance, or cleaning services. Reviews operating and financial statements and departmental sales records to determine merchandising activities that require additional sales promotion, clearance sales, or other sales procedures in order to turn over merchandise and achieve profitability of store operations and merchandising objectives. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MANAGER, DEPARTMENT STORE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 41 4E 41 47 45 52 2C      44 45 50 41 52 54 4D 45 4E 54      53 54 4F 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000001 01001110 01000001 01000111 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010000 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#78 &#65 &#71 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#80 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 004E 0041 0047 0045 0052 002C      0044 0045 0050 0041 0052 0054 004D 0045 004E 0054      0053 0054 004F 0052 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

473548354139521423839503552544739485425354495239

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