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As an undergraduate just after the war, I sat at Margaret Hall’s feet for her lectures on the economics of retailing. When later I was engaged in a retailing company she was always most interested in such insights as practical business experience might provide, for example in interpreting relationships among aggregate data. This strong orientation towards the real world also markedly informed her work in NEDO and provided both warmth and focus in her relations with the business members of the Distributive Trades EDC and others in the world of UK wholesale and retail distribution.
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McClelland, G. (1990). Economies of Scale in British Food Retailing. In: Moir, C., Dawson, J. (eds) Competition and Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10510-6_9
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