Retail saturation: Inevitable or irrelevant?

Urban Geography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 342-360

  Lord, J Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Overstoring; Retail demand; Retail supply; Saturation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; MARKET CONDITIONS; RETAILING; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 0034455694     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.21.4.342     Document Type: Article

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