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Creating Competitive Space: Exploring the Social and Political Maintenance of Retail Power

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  • T Marsden
  • M Harrison
  • A Flynn

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The authors explore the processes by which British corporate retailers are maintaining their predominance in food provision in the 1990s. Taking the ‘new retailing geography’ literature as a context, they first outline the key features (spatial, sectoral, and supply related) of retailers' dynamic competitive space. They then examine the regulatory mechanisms used to influence policy development. The authors begin to address the ways in which combinations of regulatory and consumer culture influence the uneven development and maintenance of corporate retailing and food provision in the United Kingdom, focusing specifically on retailers' definitions and strategies associated with the provision of food quality.

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  • T Marsden & M Harrison & A Flynn, 1998. "Creating Competitive Space: Exploring the Social and Political Maintenance of Retail Power," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 30(3), pages 481-498, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:30:y:1998:i:3:p:481-498
    DOI: 10.1068/a300481
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    1. Marion, Bruce W., 1995. "Changing Power Relationships in the U.S. Food Industry: Brokerage Arrangements for Private Label Products," Working Papers 204125, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Food System Research Group.
    2. C M Guy, 1997. "Fixed Assets or Sunk Costs? An Examination of Retailers' Land and Property Investment in the United Kingdom," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 29(8), pages 1449-1464, August.
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