The study of retailing in the United Kingdom has tended to be empirical rather than conceptual in nature. By bringing together three well known but poorly integrated models of retail institutional change, this exploratory article endeavours to provide a theoretical basis for future discussion. The multi-polarisation model maintains that developments along one or more dimensions of retail activity eventually give rise to counterbalancing actions elsewhere in the commercial system.
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