Marketing History and Economic Development: A Report and Commentary on Two Recent Conferences concerning the Need for a History of Marketing in the United States

Retail power, competition and local consumer choice in the UK grocery sector

“…The body of literature on the history of the relationship between retailers and consumers has a lengthy heritage (e.g. Myers and Smalley, 1959), and space constraints prevent a comprehensive coverage of the area within this paper. However, it is sufficient to say that recent historical work is reflective of this heritage, and attests the way in which food retail space has been consistently conceived and contested, not only by retailers themselves, but also by consumers (Sparks, 1993;Glennie and Thrift, 1992;Alexander and Shaw, 1999;Miller, 1999).…”