Category Archives: Scotland’s Islands

Orc-(k)nee

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Leigh Sparks

There has been a lot of doom and gloom around in the last few weeks about the state of retail and high streets across the country.  There is clearly a new changed set of circumstances around consumer behaviours and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Cooperative Group, Creative Places, Environmental Quality, Food Tourism, Heritage, High Streets, Independents, Lidl, Orkney, Personal, Places, Pound Shops, Poundland, Public Realm, Retail History, Scotland's Islands, Seafood, Small Shops, Small Towns, Stirling, Tourism, Town Centres, Towns, Understanding Scottish Places, Urban History | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Northern Lights – getting dimmer?

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Leigh Sparks

If you have been keeping up with the additions I have been posting in the Journal Articles section of this blog, you will have seen that my colleague Paul Freathy has recently had a number of articles published about his … Continue reading →

Posted in Availability, Consumer Change, Internet, Internet shopping, Outshopping, Rural, Scotland's Islands | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments