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Retail Changeby Rosemary Bromley; Colin J. Thomas
Routledge 1993; US$ 38.95Filling a conspicuous gap in the recent literature, this book covers the internationalization of retailing, its impact on the urban region, the planning implications of retail change and social issues associated with all these developments. more...
Call of the Mallby Paco Underhill
Simon & Schuster 2004; US$ 11.99The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as "a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves" -- now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about. Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping, has run hundreds of research assignments in malls across the country (and in Tokyo and European capitals). He has visited them, observed his fellow mall-ers, looked long and hard for his car in mammoth parking lots, chatted up the staffers, gone hunting for jeans with adolescent girls and anniversary shopping with guys. The result is a bright, ironic, funny, and shrewd portrait of the mall -- America's gift to personal consumption, its most... more...
Specialty Shop Retailingby Carol L. Schroeder
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 34.95This comprehensive, revised edition offers how-to information for starting a small business in specialized retailing, from the mom and pop operation to a chain memorabilia store. Highly practical, it incorporates the newest developments within retail sales, including information on the changing economy (such as how e-commerce affects small business owners). more...
Retail Insights Retailing For Communities by Professor John Fernie
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 199.00This issue of Retail Insights is devoted to cases from the 7th International European Association for Education and Research in Commercial Distribution (EAERCD) conference which was hosted by the University of Gloucestershire Business School in Cheltenham, England in July 2002 (Web site - http://online. more...
Retail Insights by Professor John Fernie
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00Welcome to this issue of Retail Insights. This special issue draws on a collection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of the European Association for Education and Research in Consumer Distribution (EAERCD) in July 2004 and hosted by Tony Kent and his colleagues at the London College of Communication. more...
Shopping, Place and Identityby Daniel Miller; Peter Jackson; Nigel Thrift; Beverly Holbrook; Michael Rowlands
Routledge 1998; US$ 65.95Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that has developed in recent years. more...
Retailing And Producer-retailer Relationships In Food Chainby John Fernie
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00In May 2004, I was invited to give a keynote address on Wal-Mart?s internationalisation at the 88th seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Paris. The theme of the event was ?Retailing and Producer-Retailer Relationships in Food Chains? and six of the papers presented at the conference are the subject of this issue of the journal. Martin Hingley?s paper on power imbalanced relationships sets the scene for the issue. Martin?s work is strongly focused upon the fresh food supply chain in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with senior management of fresh food suppliers and their key customers, the large retail chains, he shows that the imbalance in power in such relationships does not preclude these... more...
Objects of Desireby Charles Dennis
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 120.00What determines where people shop? Why would shoppers visit one shopping centre rather than another? Developers, backers, planners and Government will wish to estimate the viability of proposed new centres. Developers wish to plan, build and/or improve shopping centres to maximise profitable retail sales and shopper satisfaction. more...
Performing Consumersby Maurya Wickstrom
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 35.95Provides an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of people who encounter them at branded superstores. This work employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and "The Lion King"; and The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Retail Storeby James E. Dion
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 16.99Make the dream of opening a retail business a reality. The fastest-growing segment of small business is retail?everything from clothing to linens, books to boats, gourmet pans to furniture. With over 30 years? experience in retail, national expert and consultant James Dion offers practical, hands-on tips and advice on all aspects of retail business, from choosing the right business model and finding the ideal location to financing, purchasing, and marketing. * Expert author with a high industry profile * Practical, hands-on steps on how to build a successful retail business * Up-to-date information on the retail market more...









