Downsizing Wal-Mart: A reply to Prytherch

Urban Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-84

  Woodward, Keith ^a   Jones III, John Paul ^b   Marston, Sallie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 43449113880     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.29.1.78     Document Type: Note

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