About 20 per cent of all enterprises in the U.

S economy are in the distribution sector

In the U.S., small stores generate 19.2 percent of food sales

America emphasizes on supermarkets, discount food stores, and department stores

Explain the role of retailing in the U.S. economy.

The nation's 2 million retailers sell goods and services to persons for their own use rather than
for resale. Retail institutions are constantly changing. Two factors make it difficult to describe
and classify them: the wheel of retailing and the trend toward scrambled merchandising.
Retailers fall into two general categories: store and nonstore. Store retailers include general
stores, department stores, specialty stores, convenience stores, discount houses, off-price
retailers, factory outlets, catalog showrooms, supermarkets, hypermarkets, and warehouse
clubs. Nonstore retailing includes direct selling, direct-response retailing, automatic
merchandising, and teleshopping.
U.S Market Entry Program
Analyze competitive landscape
Market launch strategy and plan
Channel strategies and programs
Establish sales channels
Generate sales and manage relationships
It is interesting to compare the Unites States' infrastructure to that of other countries.
United States: Infrastructure................................. score (rank)
Quality of overall infrastructure ............................... 5.7 (19)
Quality of roads ......................................................... 5.7 (18)
Quality of railroad infrastructure ............................. 4.9 (17)
Quality of port infrastructure .................................... 5.7 (16)

Quality of air transport infrastructure...................... 5.9 (18)

Available airline seat km/week, millions* ... 32,852.2 (1)
Quality of electricity supply ....................................... 6.2 (30)
Mobile telephone subscriptions/100 pop.* ........ 98.2 (95)
Fixed telephone lines/100 pop.* .......................... 44.0 (18)
For 2013-2014 the top 20 countries according to the GCI are
1. Switzerland 5.67
2. Singapore 5.61
3. Finland 5.54
4. Germany 5.51
5. United States 5.48
For Basic Infrastructure, the USA was ranked 11th in 2010 and 9th in 2011
Major mass transit rail systems in the US cities of New York, Chicago and Boston are among the
very oldest in the world.