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April 2020 – Some tidying up and corrections in the Journal Article section
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- Towns and Town Centres in Scotland: reflections six years on from Fraser
- What Should We Value about Retailing and Towns and What Should We Do About Them?
- Supermarket Nightmares: Keeping your Distance
- Pretty Vacant
- Retail Branding: it's not (just) private label
- Analysing and Understanding Shopping Centres
- Tiles and Sardines
- London's Welsh Dairies: The Welsh Milk Trade
- Going Self-Service - a 70 year old revolution?
- Fighting Fit? Independent Convenience Stores and the Public Health Agenda
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Tag Archives: Value
Town Centres, Post Offices, Courts, Police Stations and Alloa
A week or so back I was sent an email about the Alloa Town Centre Post Office being earmarked for closure or “rehoused with a retail partner”. Nothing new in that perhaps – our University post office was closed a … Continue reading
Posted in Car Parking, Consumer Change, High Streets, MSPs, Places, Post Offices, Rates, Town Centre Review, Town Centres
Tagged Alloa, courts, Post office, Town Centres, Value
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Where’s the Beef?
I don’t think I’ve eaten horse … well not knowingly. I’ve tried my fair share of the weird and wonderful in my travels (rattlesnake, alligator, zebra, warthog, various of Bambi’s relatives, squirrel, assorted insects), and some of it has been … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Diet and Health, Doughnuts, Food, Food Quality, Labelling, Local Retailers, Retail Parks, Slow Food, Supply Chains, Tax
Tagged Beef, Edinburgh, Horse, Kripy Kreme, Labels, Quality, Supply chains, Value
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Retail – A British Success Story
Even as a Professor of Retail Studies, I still get disparaging comments from academic colleagues in ‘proper’ subjects and from journalists and others – retailing isn’t that significant they say, and how can you possibly study it, given it’s so … Continue reading
Posted in BRC, Government, Regulation, Retail Economy, Retail Policy
Tagged BRC, Economy, Retailing, Society, Value
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