Retailing (Rle Retailing and Distribution) - Shopping, Society, Space

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.

List 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

About the author

Larry O'Brien, Frank Harris

Product details

• Authors: Frank Harris, Larry O'Brien, Larry Harris O''brien, O'Brien Larry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2012
• EAN: 9780415540407
• ISBN: 978-0-415-54040-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Business & Economics / General, Economics, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Retail and wholesale industries, Distributive industries