Although the issue of retail location has attracted a great deal of academic attention, the bulk of this literature pertains lo the national, regional and urban scales of analysis. An equally important, but comparatively neglected, consideration is micro-scale retail location; that is, location...

Innovations in retailing are characterised by, first, a hostile reaction from established organisations and, second, by a distinctive pattern of evolution. This article presents an integrated theory of retail change which is used to describe the development of the retail warehouse, one of the...

Recently described as a 'peculiarly British innovation,' retail parks are an increasingly important element of the UK's urban retail structure. Yet relatively little is known about customer usage and perceptions of this innovative retail form. A study of the Abbey Trading Centre, an unplanned...

The agglomeration of similar retail outlets has long attracted the attention of geographers. This paper examines the attitudes of retailers towards agglomeration,thereby complementing earlier studies based upon pattern analysis and pedestrian interchange. In addition, it explores the nature of...