Focuses on the changing nature of retail competition and the way it affects local consumer
choice in the UK grocery sector. Integrates relevant literature on the economic aspects of …

There is considerable concern in the United Kingdom regarding the growing power of
supermarkets, a concern that culminated recently in a UK Competition Commission enquiry …

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geographical appraisal PWDANIELS METHUEN London and New York Page 5 First …

Originally published in 1989, this book analyses the economic and political position of the
small firm in the 1980s, and in particular the relationship between small and large firms in an …

Whilst retail internationalization practice has a long history, academic research into retail
internationalization is a more recent phenomenon. We argue in this paper that our …

In this paper the author describes an application of certain accessibility measures in the
assessment of access to local shopping opportunities. The measures used here include one …

Purpose–The paper seeks to review dynamic forms of rural retailing, by location, that have
innovated through a mixture of actions leading to growth, adaptation, diversification and …

Purpose–To understand the drivers behind small‐scale retailers' collective success, even
after a decade of sustained growth of the “modern” retail sector in Latin America …

Changes in the philosophy of planning and the political influences behind it have led to an
increasingly ambivalent approach to retail and commercial matters and a lack of clear goals …

In the USA, the ownership and control of small businesses by groups such as the Chinese,
Japanese and Jews has been shown to be a vital instrument of social mobility, a starting …