International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management: Volume 26 Issue 9

South Korean retail industry: government’s role in retail liberalization

Brenda Sternquist, Byoungho Jin

The Korean government has played an important role in the development of the domestic retailing industry. Korean manufacturers were nurtured until they were able to compete with…

Exploring the relevance of strategic promotion management approach among small independent retailers

Kim Shyan Fam, Bill Merrilees

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether strategic promotion management approach is relevant to the small independent retailers. To address this question, we contrasted the…

An exploratory study of grocery shopping stressors

Russell Aylott, Vincent‐Wayne Mitchell

Many factors affect the store patronage decision, e.g. location, service levels, pricing policies, merchandise assortment, store environment and store image, but very little…

Retail services ride the waves

Peter Jones, John Pal

Within the UK, the continuing development of out of town retail outlets is well documented in the literature. The process is usually depicted as a set of four waves. However, all…