Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Retailing: economy and society; 2. Marketing and retailing; 3. British retailing; 4. The geography of supply and demand; 5. Shops, shopping centres and the built environment; 6. The modern consumer; 7. Information and retailing; 8. Green retailing; Conclusions; References; Index
