Retailing and the circular economy

Jones, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9566-9393 (2025) Retailing and the circular economy. In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Retailing. Business 2025 . Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 958-961. ISBN 9781035319701

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Abstract

Large retailers, who are in a pivotal position to drive both production and consumption, have a crucial role to play in the transition to a circular economy. This entry outlines some of the ways in which a number of leading retailers have embraced elements of the circular economy into their business models. However, the circular economy poses a number of challenges for retailers, including extending it to all stages of the product life cycle; driving, and demanding, changes in consumer behaviour; and calling into question the social value that consumers ascribe to many of the products and services they buy. At the same time, two wider issues, sustainable consumption and the relationship between the circular economy and existing political and economic structures, are discussed.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Circular economy, (un); Sustainable consumption; Recycling; Repair services
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5428 Retail Trade H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5717 Business communication
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Kamila Niekoraniec
Date Deposited:	21 May 2026 10:00
Last Modified:	30 May 2026 08:00
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/16272

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