Format development and retail change: Supermarket retailing and the London Co-Operative Society

Business History

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 489-508

  Alexander, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co operative societies; Retail change; Retail format; Self service retailing; Supermarket

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SECTOR; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; POST-WAR; RETAILING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45949084504     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076790802106679     Document Type: Article

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