Success in Store: How to Start or Buy a Retail Business, Enjoy Running It and Make Money

Our feeling is that retailers are going to want to dip into this book for ideas as they go, so we've made the contents listing extensive and included an extensive index. There are also margin notes of cross references. It's a book to keep by you and refer to again and again.

Gordon Woolf learned about retail in after-school hours in a grocery store. At 15, he was trusted to run a greengrocery in the East End of London. While becoming a journalist and publisher he worked on market stalls, had a half-share in a bookshop in Sydney’s Kings Cross, and a small offset printery. Eventually he and his wife broke from newspapers to buy, run and then sell, at a substantial profit, a convenience store in a major town.

Though from different backgrounds the authors have in common a belief in ethical marketing and that in all deals one should "leave a dollar for the other guy".