TY - JOUR AB - The policy pursued by the French government over the years in relation to the development of various types of retailing can be compared to driving a car; it is an alternating series of accelerating and braking actions according to external circumstances. From 1960 to 1972 it was largely the accelerator, but since then the brake has been more strongly applied. Jean Fries describes how this policy has affected French retailing, and in particular the growth of largeā€scale units such as shopping centres and hypermarkets. This is a slightly condensed version of a paper presented at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute conference in Zurich last September (see RDM, September/October, page 7). VL - 6 IS - 2 SN - 0307-2363 DO - 10.1108/eb017936 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017936 AU - Fries Jean PY - 1978 Y1 - 1978/01/01 TI - GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN FRANCE: How has it affected development? T2 - Retail and Distribution Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 41 EP - 45 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -