All Stories

  1. Cadbury and the rise of the supermarket: innovation in marketing 1953–1975

    Article • Business History, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  2. Sleeping with the enemy for the greater good

    Article • Industrial Marketing Management, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Teller, Professor Andrew Alexander

  3. Decision-making authority in British supermarket chains

    Article • Business History, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  4. Store Managers – The Seismographs in Shopping Centres

    Article • European Journal of Marketing, November 2014, Emerald

    Professor Christoph Teller, Professor Andrew Alexander

  5. Helping Yourself

    Article • Cultural and Social History, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  6. Past, present and future directions in the study of the history of retailing

    Article • Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, August 2010, Emerald

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  7. Consumer Behaviour and the Life Course: Shopper Reactions to Self-Service Grocery Shops and Supermarkets in England c. 1947–75

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, June 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  8. The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain

    Article • June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  9. Retail Innovation and Shopping Practices: Consumers' Reactions to Self-Service Retailing

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, September 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  10. Format development and retail change: supermarket retailing and the London Co-operative Society

    Article • Business History, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  11. Location planning in charity retailing

    Article • International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, June 2008, Emerald

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  12. Ethnicity and Consumption

    Article • Journal of Consumer Culture, March 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  13. British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution

    Article • Business History, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  14. Rediscovering consumer‐producer involvement

    Article • European Journal of Marketing, November 2006, Emerald

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  15. Consumer perceptions of corporate social responsibility in town shopping centres and their influence on shopping evaluations

    Article • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Harmen Oppewal, Professor Andrew Alexander

  16. Interlocking directorates and the knowledge transfer of supermarket retail techniques from North America to Britain

    Article • The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  17. ‘Fair play for the small man’: Perspectives on the contribution of the independent shopkeeper 1930–c.1945

    Article • Business History, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  18. Consumer Misbehavior: The Rise of Self-Service Grocery Retailing and Shoplifting in the United Kingdom c. 1950-1970

    Article • Journal of Macromarketing, June 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  19. An Efficient Pursuit? Independent Shopkeeping in 1930s Britain

    Article • Enterprise & Society, June 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  20. Promoting Retail Innovation: Knowledge Flows during the Emergence of Self-Service and Supermarket Retailing in Britain

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, May 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  21. Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket: The Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain, 1945–60

    Article • Business History, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  22. Food access and dietary variety among older people

    Article • International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, February 2004, Emerald

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  23. Retailing and consumption: evidence from war time Britain

    Article • The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  24. The Evolving Culture of Retailer Regulation and the Failure of the ‘Balfour Bill’ in Interwar Britain

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, November 2000, SAGE Publications

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  25. Reasons for retailers’ involvement in town centre management

    Article • International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, September 2000, Emerald

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  26. Banks, grocers and the changing retailing of financial services in Britain

    Article • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, July 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  27. Retailers’ financial support for town centre management

    Article • International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, August 1999, Emerald

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  28. Action and reaction: competition and the multiple retailer in 1930s Britain

    Article • The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  29. Structural and Spatial Trends in British Retailing: The Importance of Firm-Level Studies

    Article • Business History, October 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  30. Town centre management in the UK: A review, synthesis and research agenda

    Article • The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  31. Following the script: Optical Character Recognition Technology and the British Town and Trade Directory

    Article • History and Computing, October 1997, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Andrew Alexander

  32. Strategy and strategists: evidence from an early retail revolution in Britain

    Article • The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew Alexander