Retail Competition and Consumer Choice
- Abstract
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This project addressed the implication of the growth in concentration in food retailing in the UK – resulting from the consolidation and small store decline over the long term - with reference to its impact on consumer choice. The reference point of the study was the UK Competition Commission (2000) conclusion that the degree to which consumers will have adequate choice will depend on local circumstances. The project addressed this specific issue by exploring changing retail provision between 1980 and 2002 in an ‘average’ situation (Portsmouth), where extensive, large scale quantitative surveys of shopping behaviour were combined with qualitative studies to provide a richer understanding of different households' use and experiences of local retail provision.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Shopping trips and kitchen visits
- Variables
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Shopping trips and kitchen visits
- Keywords
- Portsmouth (district), age, children, choice, consumers, consumption, cooking, customer service, diet and nutrition, domestic responsibilities, economic activity, food, food storage, gender, household budgets, households, large shops, local community facilities, prices, purchasing, retail trade, shopping, shopping areas, shops, small shops
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Consumer behaviour
- Area of Health System
- Other
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Lancaster University. Management School. Department of Marketing and University of Sheffield. Department of Geography and Manchester Metropolitan University. Business School. Department of Retailing and Marketing
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- Regional
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2002, 2003, 2004
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate, Individual
- Sample
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Supermarket shoppers and persons responsible for their household's main grocery shopping, resident in Portsmouth between 2002 and 2004; Store survey:2515 obtained. Area survey: 430 obtained. Household case studies: 8.
- Availability
- ESDS Qualidata, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=5049
- Contact
- qualidata@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/publicationListForSN.asp?sn=5049