The purpose of this paper is to suggest a theoretical approach to modeling multiplant firm locations and to apply it to store locations of a major British supermarket chain. Choice of store location is seen as a major weapon in long-run competition between rival groups and the authors focus upon...

Theoretical models of local pay are reviewed, ranging from neoclassical perspectives, unemployment/wage trade-off models, and segmented labor market approaches. The empirical work on U.S. North-South differentials is discussed. For the U.K., studies of the extent of and trends in geographical...