Modern Retail Business Risks

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What are modern retail businesses?

Modern retail businesses are those that use current technologies and strategies to operate, such as e-commerce.

What is a digital risk in modern retail businesses?

Digital risks involve threats from online activities, such as data breaches or cyber-attacks.

How can a retail business manage supply chain risks?

They can monitor suppliers, diversify their supply sources, and build strong relationships with key suppliers.

How does customer behavior pose a risk?

Changes in customer preferences can lead to obsolete stock and unexpected declines in sales.

What is one economic risk for modern retail businesses?

An economic risk can be a recession, which decreases consumer spending adversely affecting sales.





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1. What are modern retail businesses?

Modern retail businesses are those that use current technologies and strategies to operate, such as e-commerce.

Modern retail businesses are those that only sell offline and avoid digital transactions.

Modern retail businesses rely solely on brick-and-mortar stores without any online presence.

Modern retail businesses exclusively focus on traditional sales methods, avoiding any technological integrations.

2. What is a digital risk in modern retail businesses?

Digital risks involve having surplus inventory that doesn't sell.

Digital risks involve threats from online activities, such as data breaches or cyber-attacks.

Digital risks involve having too many physical stores.

Digital risks are primarily about reducing the workforce.

3. How can a retail business manage supply chain risks?

They can monitor suppliers, diversify their supply sources, and build strong relationships with key suppliers.

They can reduce the number of products offered to minimalize supply chain complexity.

They can eliminate international suppliers and rely solely on local ones.

They can invest in real estate instead of their supply chain.

4. How does customer behavior pose a risk?

Customer loyalty always remains constant, thus posing no risk.

Customer behavior only poses risks during holiday seasons.

Customer behavior increases the number of transactions consistently, which is considered a risk.

Changes in customer preferences can lead to obsolete stock and unexpected declines in sales.

5. What is one economic risk for modern retail businesses?

Rapid technological advancement is considered an economic risk.

An economic risk can be a recession, which decreases consumer spending adversely affecting sales.

Having a global market presence is considered an economic risk.

Continuous innovation and new product launches are always an economic risk.