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What price cheap goods? Survivalists, informalists and competition in the township retail grocery trade
A national study of more than 1,100 spaza shops introduces the ‘informalist’: larger networked businesses that use informality as a strategy, including contraband and exploitative labour.
Petersen, L., Thorogood, C., Charman, A., & du Toit, A. (2019). What price cheap goods? Survivalists, informalists and competition in the township retail grocery trade. Working Paper 59. Bellville: PLAAS, University of the Western Cape.