International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management: Volume 25 Issue 1

British food retail capital in the USA ‐ Part 1: Sainsbury and the Shaw’s experience

Neil Wrigley

Offers an appraisal of the corporate experience and prospects of J. Sainsbury plc in the USA, ten years after its market entry. In Part 1, focuses on Sainsbury’s New England…

UK retailers and AIDS ‐ an exploratory study

Morag McLean, Christopher M. Moore

Examines UK retailers’ attitudes towards employee welfare in general, and the development and implementation of policies in respect of staff with HIV/AIDS in particular. From the…

Retailing in computer‐mediated environments: electronic commerce across Europe

Jonathan Reynolds

Argues that global networked environments, such as the Internet and those of online service providers such as AOL and CompuServe, provide not only challenging philosophical…

Retailing and the super high street: the future of the electronic home shopping industry

Davidson Pavitt

Predicts a major increase in electronic home shopping, via the television and the Internet, over the next ten years. Discusses the economics of selling via the Internet and…