This study involved all distributive education state supervisory and teacher education personnel in the United States, 48 distributive education teacher coordinators, and 400 distributive workers at the entry, supervisory, and management level. This document, Volume II, includes the critical tasks, competencies needed to perform the tasks, and a cross tabulation of competencies needed by workers in selected categories or department and variety stores. Volume III (VT 005 975) and Volume IV (VT 005 976) include the same information for food stores, service stations, wholesaling, hotel-motel, and restaurants. Volume I (VT 005 973) includes a philosophy of distributive education, the critical tasks of the high school distributive education teacher coordinator, the professional competencies needed to perform the critical tasks, the technical competencies needed to develop identified compentencies of selected distributive workers, and a cross tabulation of competencies needed by selected distributive workers. Volume V (VT 009 085) includes final reports of Phases II and III of the study. (MM)