The Corner-Shop to Supermarket Transition in Retailing: The Beginnings of Empirical Evidence

A G Wilson and M J Oulton

Environment and Planning A, 1983, vol. 15, issue 2, 265-274

Abstract: It was proposed in an earlier paper that a catastrophe-theory-like mechanism might explain the relatively sudden transition from corner-shop retailing to a supermarket system. In this paper, some extensions of this mechanism and some alternatives are presented; but most importantly the first steps are taken in relating these theoretical explorations to empirical data. We consider change in Nottingham from 1956 to 1979.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1068/a150265

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