This brief Report provides a summary of the initial findings of a two-year study that has investigated the perceptions and satisfaction of consumers with the local grocery shopping facilities they have available. The Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences...

In the European Retail Digest, Tenbusch (2002) advised us that, "over the last decade, only discounters have been able to achieve significant revenue growth". The most casual observer of the retail scene in Europe would quickly realise that the author was most certainly not writing about...

This paper discusses how network theory can help explain different patterns of inclusion of small and medium sized producers in the development of agricultural clusters. A framework based on contrasting network structures and levels of involvement of producers in the design and implementation of...

This paper discusses how network theory can help explain different patterns of inclusion of small and medium sized producers in the development of agricultural clusters. A framework based on contrasting network structures and levels of involvement of producers in the design and implementation of...

A recurring issue in the discourse about choice modelling is the role of consideration sets. Many scholars have proposed that consumers will follow a twostage decision process. This paper argues that in spatial choice contexts the role of the consideration set may largely depend on the decision...

Unit pricing (i.e., displaying prices per unit of volume or weight) is deemed helpful for grocery shoppers. Many countries mandate that supermarkets provide unit prices. However, consumers only make limited use of unit pricing. Consumer advocates attribute this to the poor and inconsistent...