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Early retailing: London's shopping exchanges, 1550-1700

Baer, William - In: Business History 49 (2007) 1, pp. 29-51

Location is an important aspect of retailing, and London entrepreneurs recognized it as early as the 1560s in building exchanges to house a collection of shops, taking them off the street. These shopping centres created a special shopping environment: shelter, safety, and shop agglomeration....

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'Fair play for the small man': Perspectives on the contribution of the independent shopkeeper 1930-c.1945

Alexander, Andrew; Phillips, Simon - In: Business History 48 (2006) 1, pp. 69-89

Detailed accounts of the social role of the independent shopkeeper rarely go beyond 1914. This article identifies a … of documentary sources from the 1930s and 1940s demonstrates that the independent shopkeeper remained an integral part of … shopkeeper in relation to theories of retail institutional change derived from the marketing literature. Acknowledging an open …

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