Crossing urban deserts: Consumers, competitors and the protracted birth of metropolitan co-operative retailing

International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-243

  Purvis, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumers' Co operation; London; Nineteenth Century; Retail Competition; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966721129     PISSN: 09593969     EISSN: 14664402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095939699342534     Document Type: Article

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