...Dominic Medway; Gary Warnaby; David Bennison; Andrew Alexander Building on an earlier publication in the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, the following article investigates the reasons for retailers’ involvement in town centre management (TCM) schemes...

... Hypermarkets Shopping Town centres Consumer behaviour Mass merchandisers have been experiencing great success over the last few decades. One mass merchandiser in particular, Wal‐Mart, has been expanding extensively in the past 20 years. However, retailers in small communities feel severely threatened...

... strategy and store performance. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Retailing Stores Surveys Town centres Discount chain stores are changing the face of small‐town America, and perhaps no chain has had a greater impact than Wal‐Mart. In less than four decades, Wal‐Mart has grown from a single...

..., of the town centre traders can benefit from this influx (Worthington and Hallsworth, 1996; Worthington, 1998). It is these sorts of factors that we regard as vital context – change in retailing is a fact of life (Hallsworth, 1992; Burt et al., 1997) and some locations are showing long‐term decline...

...Dominic Medway; Andrew Alexander; David Bennison; Gary Warnaby Investigates the role that retailers play in the cash funding of town centre management (TCM) schemes in the UK. The findings are drawn from a detailed questionnaire survey of town centre managers, and a series of interviews with retail...

...Steve Worthington The context for this paper is the growth of the out‐of‐town superstore and the subsequent decline of the town centre. It examines the development of a town centre loyalty card programme in the town of Leominster and reports on both quantitative and qualitative research carried out...

... of an integrated and coherent town centre management strategy. References 1 Department of the Environment , Town Centres and Retail Developments , PPG 6 HMSO , London , 1996 . 2 Home Office , CCTV ‐ Looking Out for You , The Home Office , London , 1994 . 3 Brown , B. , “ CCTV in town...

...John Pal; Emma Sanders Town centre management as an activity has been in operation for over five years in the UK. A postal survey of town centre managers and local planning officers in northwest England and North Wales showed that few had any means of assessing the effectiveness of their schemes...

...Hassan Alzubaidi; Claudio Vignali; Barry J. Davies; Ruth A. Schmidt Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s the debate surrounding the comparative costs and benefits of town centre and out‐of‐town retail developments for consumers and to the environment has been a heated one. Informed by a largely...

...Christina Tomalin; John Pal Identifies some of the industry‐wide changes such as the decentralization of retailing and the impact and implications for town centres of retailing and its wider function. Examines the recent upsurge of interest in town centre management in the context of current...

...Russell Schiller British town centres are suffering from the growing trend towards out‐of‐town retailing. The Continental model for the future of town centres appears attractive, but there are problems. National durable multiples face a locational dilemma – they have a commitment to town centres...

... looking at the likely impact of Meadowhall on Sheffield City Centre and Rotherham in more detail. Both centres face a number of problems in retail provision. Sheffield City Centre is hampered by its linear nature with three distinct areas of retailing. Like many town centres, problems of traffic...

... and cons of superstores operating side by side with small businesses in town centres are examined. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Shopping centres Small firms Supermarkets Town centres VOLUME 18 NUMBER 3 1990 Out-of-town Shopping IS THE REVOLUTION OVER? Discussion of a paper by Michael Howard...

...Peter Jones There is growing interest in town centre management schemes in a number of towns and cities in the UK. Some of the major elements within such schemes are outlined. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Customers Environment Management Consumer behaviour Retailing Shopping centres Town...