Competition and saturation in West European grocery retailing

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2129-2156

  Poole, Rachel ^a   Clarke, Graham P ^b   Clarke, David B ^b,c  

^a CACI Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); GLOBALIZATION; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; RETAILING; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751546311     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3816     Document Type: Article

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