Ray, N, Clarke, G orcid.org/0000-0003-4640-8303 and Waley, P (2020) The rise of corporate retailing and the impacts on small‐scale retailing: the survival strategies of Kirana stores and informal street vendors in Durgapur, India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41 (2). pp. 269-283. ISSN 0129-7619
Abstract
In many developing world economies in recent years, the state has been seen to encourage neoliberal economic expansion policies. This has involved both large‐scale foreign corporations and sometimes large‐scale domestic corporations. Many studies have discussed the new landscapes of economic hardship and the impacts on small businesses. The aim of this paper is to argue that the impacts on small traders are in fact more complex and varied than usually appears in the literature. The research was conducted in the industrial city of Durgapur in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India. First it is argued that the impact has been greatest on the ‘kirana’ owners, operating small convenience type stores with legalized trading arrangements and fixed premises. On the other hand, the street vendors (often unlicensed and having no fixed premises) seem not to be affected in terms of customer loss and indeed could be seen to be doing well against the backcloth of neoliberal expansion. In fact we argue that the growth in the number of street vendors provides as much of a threat to future livelihoods for traditional kirana owners as the growth of large corporations itself.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ray, N, Clarke, G and Waley, P (2020) The rise of corporate retailing and the impacts on small‐scale retailing: the survival strategies of Kirana stores and informal street vendors in Durgapur, India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41 (2). pp. 269-283. ISSN 0129-7619, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12312. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | domestic neoliberalism; traditional retailing; kiranas; street vendors; resilience strategies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2019 15:01 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/sjtg.12312 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:152409 |