International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management: Volume 25 Issue 2

British food retail capital in the USA ‐ Part 2: Giant prospects?

Neil Wrigley

Offers an appraisal of the corporate experience and prospects of J. Sainsbury plc in the USA, ten years after its market entry. Part 1 focused on Sainsbury’s New England…

Towards a contemporary perspective of retail location

Ian Clarke, David Bennison, John Pal

Much of the existing literature on location does not address the problems faced by retail organizations at a strategic level, largely because it has tended to concentrate on the…

Measuring the effectiveness of town centre management schemes: an exploratory framework

John Pal, Emma Sanders

Town centre management as an activity has been in operation for over five years in the UK. A postal survey of town centre managers and local planning officers in northwest England…

Town centre versus out‐of‐town shopping: a consumer perspective

Hassan Alzubaidi, Claudio Vignali, Barry J. Davies, Ruth A. Schmidt

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s the debate surrounding the comparative costs and benefits of town centre and out‐of‐town retail developments for consumers and to the…

The impact of quick response technologies on retail store attributes

Eunju Ko, Doris H. Kincade

In the competitive business environment, retailers can obtain profit by strategic planning and delivering consumer satisfaction. Quick response (QR) is a new business strategy to…