Do the Poor Really Pay More for Food?

Decline in the British small shop independent retail sector: exploring European parallels

“…In the 1960s and 1970s-in the face of ongoing decline-there arose studies focusing on the social role of the independent sector (Dixon and McLaughlin, 1968;Dawson and Kirby, 1979). At a time of a peak in writing about such stores, Dawson and Kirby (1979) offered an overview of the issues relating to the independent retail sector.…”

Race, sex, and fashion innovativeness: A replication

“…viewed the black market as a homogeneous group. Additionally, because of the social unrest and quest for equality by blacks during the 1960s and 1970s most researchers focused their efforts on the low income black consumer (Dixon and McLaughlin, 1968;Goodman, 1968).…”

Dixon's library: on the structuring of the marketplace and marketing practices

“…Much like Monieson (Jones et al , 2010; Tadajewski, 2010b), Dixon is interested in critically scrutinising the way the market works in order to critique the criticism being made of the marketing system by particular groups. The obvious examples that demonstrate this are his studies of the power dynamics of the gasoline industry (Dixon, 1971) and those dealing with the low‐income market (Dixon and McLaughlin, 1968, 1971).…”

“…Conceptual and marketplace realism lends Dixon's work a contemporary feel that should resonate with scholars who situate their work in the emerging critical marketing vein (Hamilton, 2009; Jafari and Goulding, 2008; Tadajewski, 2010a, d; Varman and Vikas, 2007; Vikas and Varman, 2007). In common with this literature, he directs our attention to the structures that enable and constrain marketplace practices (Dixon and McLaughlin, 1968, 1971). This is not undertaken for traditional marketing management reasons, that is, in order to enable practitioners to sell people more products and services.…”