Creating competitive space : exploring the social and political maintenance of retail power
Activity space ; Competition ; Firm strategy ; Food trade ; Great Britain ; Regulation ; Retail trade ; Supplying ; Uneven development ; United Kingdom
The AA. explore the processes by which British corporate retailers are maintaining their predominance in food provision in the 1990s. They outline the key features of retailers' dynamic competitive space. They examine the regulatory mechanisms used
to influence policy development. The focus is on retailers' definitions and strategies associated with the provision of food quality.
Market-place trading and the transformation of retail space in the expanding Latin American city
Competition ; Ecuador ; Government intervention ; Latin America ; Location ; Market ; Periodic market ; Quito ; Retail trade ; Shopping centre ; Urban area ; Urban growth
The global spread of the supermarket and the planned shopping centre is transforming retail space in the Latin American city. Market-place trading has continued to flourish in most cities. A case study of Quito shows how new periodic markets have
Informal responses to crises of urban employment : an investigation into the structure and relevance of small-scale informal retailing in Kaduna, Nigeria
Employment ; Informal sector ; Kaduna ; Living standard ; Nigeria ; Retail trade ; Small firm ; Town ; Urban economy
Spatial pricing in interdependent markets : testing assumptions and modeling price variation. A case study of gasoline retailing in St Cloud, Minnesota
Accessibility ; Consumer behaviour ; Demand ; Market ; Minnesota ; Model ; Price fixing ; Retail trade ; Spatial competition ; Spatial economy ; United States of America
Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Redevelopment ; Retail trade ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban function
This paper is to clarify the reorganization of retail activities and changes of the accumulation of urban core functions in Sakai City, located near the Sakai-Higashi station of the Nankai Koya line, Osaka metropolitan area. - (KA)