Purpose – The last ten years have seen a gradual withdrawal of retail facilities frommany local areas and the consequent growth of ‘shopping deserts’, resulting in socialand health disbenefits. This paper examines the potential for e-shopping to fill thevacuum and to assist disadvantaged...

Mit der Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Zusammenhängen von Biographie- und individuellen Lernprozessen nachzugehen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel von acht ostdeutschen ExistenzgründerInnen, die sich nach der Wende in den neuen Bundesländern im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel selbständig gemacht...

The Home Depot, Inc. is the world’s largest home improvement retailer and thesecond largest retailer in the United States. The company made its debut in 1979 and hasgrown to 1,984 stores throughout the United States (including Puerto Rico and the VirginIslands) as well as Canada and Mexico....

Minimum wage laws have become a key political issue, following on the heels of over 130 successful living wage campaigns around the country. In the debates surrounding these mandated wage floors, one recurring issue has been whether the legislation has wider-ranging impacts on wages than the...

A view has developed among some retailing researchers that financial markets have, from time to time, unduly favoured the retail sector in the UK. It is argued that this has been exploited, to some extent, by retailing companies using creative, but legitimate, accounting techniques to enhance...

The retail industry is considered to be a very competitive industry in the United States since there are so many players in the almost saturated retail markets that provide similar products and services at similar price levels to customers. Market selection has been identified as an important...

Purpose of the research - to establish evolving trends in the retail, to estimate the development level of the retail networks and to evaluate attitude of the purchasers towards the development of networks. The research consists of two parts: Due to model delivered before the research was...

The article presents changes which took place in the Polish retail market since the beginning of system transformation till nowadays. Statistical data proving development of large- area shops are presented, especially of foreign retail chains. The following issues are also presented: basic...

Purpose. This paper aims to reconsider and reframe the relationship between retail and consumer revolutions, arguing that the two have too often been separated empirically and conceptually. Design/methodology/approach. Reviewing a broad range of literature, the paper discusses the ways in which...