Selling self-service and the supermarket: The Americanisation of food retailing in Britain, 1945-60

Business History

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 568-582

  Shaw, Gareth ^a   Curth, Louise ^a   Alexander, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; RETAILING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4544347438     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0007679042000231847     Document Type: Article

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