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Space Wars: Wm Low and the ‘Auld Enemy’

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  • L Sparks

    (Institute for Retail Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland)

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Food retailers in the United Kingdom in recent years have waged a battle for market share through their expansion plans. Their capital ‘grounding’ has (re)structured space in a real sense. Much discussion of this has been either at the micro level in terms of catchment areas and local competitive effects or at the national or supranational level through consideration of business strategies and investment and, in particular, internationalisation strategies. In this paper an intermediate-level approach is taken by looking at the attempts by a ‘Scottish’ retailer to conquer first its national space and then an ‘alien’ territory, before its ultimate demise at the hands of retailers representing the ‘auld enemy’. The discussion is presented within a framework of retail restructuring and spatial diffusion.

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  • L Sparks, 1996. "Space Wars: Wm Low and the ‘Auld Enemy’," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(8), pages 1465-1484, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:28:y:1996:i:8:p:1465-1484
    DOI: 10.1068/a281465
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    1. Grigor McClelland, 1990. "Economies of Scale in British Food Retailing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Christopher Moir & John Dawson (ed.), Competition and Markets, chapter 9, pages 119-140, Palgrave Macmillan.
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    1. N Wrigley, 1997. "Foreign Retail Capital on the Battlefields of Connecticut: Competition Regulation at the Local Scale and its Implications," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 29(7), pages 1141-1152, July.
    2. Colin J Thomas & Rosemary D F Bromley & Andrew R Tallon, 2004. "Retail Parks Revisited: A Growing Competitive Threat to Traditional Shopping Centres?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 36(4), pages 647-666, April.

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