Reading Retail

Neil Wrigley is Professor of Human Geography, University of Southampton, UKMichelle Lowe is Professor of Retail Management, School of Management, University of Surrey, UK

More than any other textbook in retailing it encourages readers to obtain and confront the literature. The is an engagaing, somewhat unconventional text ... it contains within it the sense of interest and excitement too often lost in conventional textbooks ... I expect it to become the key text on the subject in geography.Urban Studies, Volume 40, page 861Hopefully the book will excite more scholars to become interested in the field and, as a result, produce a stronger and more inclusive retail geography than has existed previously.Professional GeographerReading Retail is absolutely recommended for those who want to enter the fascinating multicoloured world of retail geography.European Spatial Research and Policy...quite simply, a stunningly accessible undergraduate text which seems destined to be the core text for many geography courses. If retail educators wish to expose their students to a vast range of interesting and important topics and to do so in a lively and accessible way then this would be the ideal text. It deserves to be found, and surely soon will be, on many an academic bookshelf.Tjidschrift voor Economische en Sociale GeografieProvides a stimulating and succinct text for students and researchers to begin reading the debates associated with the new retail geography.Progress in Human GeographyThis is a jam-packed book, full of ideas, data, and thought provoking perspectives on everything you want to know about retail geography (and more)... this book is about more than retailing - it resonates with broader questions in geography, planning, sociology, and cultural studies about the character of the contemporary economy.'Environment and Planning A

• Part 1 Introduction. Reading Retail: purpose and organization of the bookPart 2 Setting the scene: retail dynamics. Reconfiguration of corporate structures in retailingReconfiguration of retailer-supply chain interfacesOrganizational and technological transformations in retail distributionChanging retail employment relationsRetail regulation and governancePart 3 Making and re-making the geographies of retail capital. The inconstant geography and spatial switching of retail capital 1: urban issuesThe inconstant geography and spatial switching of retail capital 2: regional issues and internationalizationThe configuration, manipulation and contestation of retail spacePart 4 Consumption places and spaces. The streetThe storeThe mallThe home. Indexes