ABSTRACT

This textbook provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of retailing as a) and industry, b) a force shaping social attitudes and contemporary culture, and c) a force for change in modern townscapes. Unlike other texts which focus on specific topics, this book provides a treatment of retailing which will appeal to geographers, economists, planners and social scientists.

First published 1991.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|20 pages

Retailing: Economy and Society

chapter Chapter 2|14 pages

Marketing and Retailing

chapter Chapter 3|20 pages

British Retailing

chapter Chapter 4|26 pages

The Geography of Supply and Demand

chapter Chapter 6|17 pages

The Modern Consumer

chapter Chapter 7|19 pages

Information and Retailing

chapter Chapter 8|13 pages

Green Retailing

chapter Chapter 9|9 pages

Conclusions