Retailing local food in the Scottish–English borders: A supply chain perspective
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Abstract Local food is championed as one alternative response to industrial systems of food production and supply. While advocacy for local food is high, there is a lack of empirical evidence about the actual shape and scale of such food supply chains, especially from a retail perspective. Using supply chain diagrams, this paper presents a summary of ‘new’ agro-food geographies for five different retail types—farm shops, butchers, caterers, specialist shops, supermarkets/department stores—that all source local food from suppliers in the Scottish–English borders. Presented as five separate ‘shopping trips’, the paper examines where, how and why retailers source local food. Results reveal the complex nature of local food systems, especially in terms of intra-sector competitive dynamics (with a notable tension between direct forms of retail and established (independent) retailers), links and overlaps with ‘normal’ food retail systems and elastic notions of the ‘local’. The paper also draws a key distinction between locally produced and locally supplied food products.
Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues (2012, background): “This is referred to as “fl exible localism,” with the defi nition of “local” changing depending on the ability to source supplies within a short distance or further away, such as within a State (Ilbery and Maye, 2006).”
- Progressing knowledge in alternative and local food networks: Critical reflections and a research agenda (2011, background): “Empirical studies have begun to pay more attention to downstream actors in AFN channels (Ilbery and Maye, 2005b, Ilbery and Maye, 2006) as well as consumers themselves (Kneafsey et al., 2008; Little et al., 2009), and such work has been valuable in revealing the complexities of actors’ food…”
- Consumers’ Preferences and Attitudes Toward Local Food Products (2016, result): “Consistent with other studies (Brown, 2003; Ilbery & Maye, 2006; Darby et al., 2008), this result suggests that consumers in our sample identify local foods as those that come from within certain political boundaries.”