We are now closed for the Christmas and New Year period, reopening on Friday 3rd January 2025. Orders placed during this time will be processed upon our return on 3rd January.
Part 1 Shifting patterns of retailing - a journey to and through the ""golden age"": highlights of the earlier history; the post-war decades - the '50s, '60s and '70s; the ""retail revolution"" of the '80s - the creation of the ""golden age""; the early and middle '90s - less certain times...and a ""watershed"". Part 2 Planning control and retail developments: the policy; policy into practice - the law in operation. Part 3 Competition law and policy and retailing: preliminary observations; the domestic law - up to the Competition Act 1998; domestic law reform - the new Act; the European law; the approach to price discrimination and mergers; a consideration of certain further major issues. A postscript - in the ""millennium spirit"".