Author: Leigh Sparks
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February 2023 – New piece for The Conversation on online retailing (see commentaries tab)
January 2023 – Roll over of some areas for new year, plus The Conversation piece on Christmas trading updates published (see commentaries tab) and main posts
December 2022 – End of year tidying up and re-arrangement, including link to EDAS podcast on places and towns (see presentations tab)
April 2022 -new journal article published (Journal Articles page) on Twenty-One Years of Going Shopping and Marketing History
Top Posts & Pages
- The Buttercup Dairy Company
- Retail change and why we fell in love with supermarkets?
- Logistics and Retail Management 5th Edition
- A (Retail) Sense of Place
- UK Grocery Market Share 1997-2019
- London's Welsh Dairies: The Welsh Milk Trade
- Oxford Street, Hull and Beyond
- Strange Things in Self-Service
- Urban Logistics and Retailing
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Tag Archives: Home Growing
The Year of the Tomato
Given that the clocks have changed, I thought it was about time I posted this reflection on my growing summer. Whilst I have been tweeting more irregularly this year about my gardening and vegetable growing, anyone following me will be … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardens, Greenhouse, Home, Home Growing, Real Seeds, Vegatables
Tagged Chillies, Fruit, Garden, Greenhouse, Home Growing, Real Seed Catalogue, Runner beans, Seeds, Tomatoes, vegetables
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A Gardening Year in Review
I don’t often use the blog for non-retail or personal posts but made an exception this time last year. At the start of lockdown in March 2020 I started a weekly tweet about my greenhouse and last September I reflected … Continue reading
Posted in Covid19, Food, Gardens, Home, Lockdown, Seeds, Twitter
Tagged Covid-19, Gardens, Greenhouse, Home Growing, Lockdown, Real Seed Catalogue, Seeds, Tomatoes, Twitter, Weather
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Week 26 in my Greenhouse
Anyone who follows me on twitter will have become used to Saturday pictures and tweets about the progress or not in my greenhouse. On the 28th March I began (week 1) and here we are at week 26 – half … Continue reading
Posted in Availability, Covid19, Food, Garden Centres, Gardens, Lockdown, Logistics, Retailers, Retailing, Rugby Union, Seeds, Twitter, Uncategorized, Wales
Tagged Food, Garden Centres, Home Growing, Lockdown, Seeds, Twitter
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