UK food shopping in the 1950s: The social context of customer loyalty

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-39

  Lyon, Phil ^a   Colquhoun, Anne ^b   Kinney, Dave ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c DK Imaging   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1950s; Customer loyalty; Grocer shops; Shopping behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547894133     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2004.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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