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Tag Archives: change
Retail change and why we fell in love with supermarkets?
My long-term colleague, Anne Findlay has just sent me a newspaper clipping that she recently found in her parent’s house. A quick bit of research (or Googling as we now call it) dated it to February 7th 1962. Anne knew … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Buildings, Charity Shops, Consumer Change, Consumer Lifestyle, Cooperative Group, Coopers, Food Retailing, Glasgow, Historic Shops, Planning, Retail Change, Retail History, Retailers, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Spaces, Store Closures, Streetscapes, Supermarket, Urban History
Tagged ABF, Architecture, Buildings, change, Consumers, Coopers, Fine Fare, Glasgow, Howard St, Retailers, Supermarkets
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Social Science Perspectives on the High Street
Early in 2014, Neil Wrigley from the University of Southampton, invited myself and my colleague, Anne Findlay, to contribute two short chapters to a forthcoming collection of pieces exploring social science perspectives on the Evolving High Street. In particular he … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Closure, Community, Competition, Consumer Change, Data, ESRC, Government, High Streets, Online Retailing, Regeneration, Resilience, Retail Planning, Town Centres, Towns, Vacancies
Tagged change, ESRC, High Streets, Planning, Policy, Resilience, Town Centres
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Livingston Lecture 22nd May 2012: Growth of the Retail Sector
Free lecture/discussion! If you are anywhere near Livingston next Tuesday (22nd May) evening and want a couple of hours dicsussing retailing, then there is a free event at West Lothian College from 1800-2000. There are various speakers as in the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Change, Education, Retail Economy, Scotland's Town and High Streets
Tagged change, Clothing, Food, Retailing, Scotland, Skills
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Today: the High Street
Today, the Today programme on Radio 4 is running two opposing views of the high street and soliciting views about the state of, the memories of, and the future of Britain’s high street.These will feed into a series of reports … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Change, High Streets, Internet shopping, Places, Retail Failure, Town Centres, Uncategorized
Tagged change, Consumers, High Streets, Internet, internet shopping, Woolworths
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