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  • Retail warehouses
  • Retail change and downtown commercial viability. The case of Norrkoping, Sweden
  • A model of retail branch distribution
  • Spatial competition and price reporting in retail food markets
  • Consumer behaviour ; Market area ; Pricing ; Retail trade ; Spatial autocorrelation ; Spatial competition
  • Spatial competition in retail food markets is examined, with emphasis on the geographic variations in prices among proximate rival firms. The concepts of Löschian, Hotelling-Smithies, and Greenhut-Ohta competition are reviewed, and the conjectural
  • Choice and constraint in the location of urban retail activities
  • Decision ; Location choice ; Practical work ; Research technique ; Retail trade ; Teaching of geography
  • Elaborates philosophical and methodological questions of locational decision-making : « extensive » vs. « intensive » research; and voluntarism and determinism in social activity. Includes a students exercise on retail outlets to explore the meaning
  • The spatial reorganization of office functions by rationalization : a case study of the large-scale retailer U N Y
  • Economic restructuring ; Japan ; Offices ; Retail trade ; Spatial organization
  • This study aims to clarify how one Japanese corporation (large scale retailer U N Y ) rationalized and changed the spatial organization of its office functions during this recession. - (KA)
  • An analysis of the equilibrium locational pattern of retail and its dynamics in Tokyo
  • Commercial attraction ; Honshu ; Japan ; Location ; Model ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; Tokyo
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the spatiality and dynamics of equilibrium values of attractiveness terms of a shopping behaviour model and to explain present retail locational patterns in Tokyo's 23-ward area. The A. indicates 4 points
  • Recent locational trends of large-scale retail stores in the Tokyo metropolitan region
  • This paper analyzes the difference in the distribution patterns of large-scale retail stores by scales and management types in the Tokyo metropolitan Region. Analysis has been made for the years 1975-1981, during which period a peak of large-scale
  • retail store opening was seen between 1976 and 1980. - (KA)
  • Retail location and retail planning in Britain.
  • Urban retail distributions: an appraisal of the empirical foundations of retail geography
  • The « Magic of the Mall » : an analysis of form, function, and meaning in the contemporary retail built environment
  • Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Perception of the urban environment ; Retail trade ; Semiotics of space ; Shopping centre ; Social space ; Spatial system ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban landscape
  • Shopping is the most important contemporary social activity. Developers and designers of the retail built environment exploit the power of place and an intuitive understanding of the structuration of space to facilitate consumption. They manipulate
  • shoppers' behavior through the configuration of space, and design a symbolic landscape. These strategies are examined to obtain an understanding of how the retail built environment works.
  • Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
  • Government policy ; Outer conurbation area ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; United Kingdom
  • Using the results of a major study into the impact of major out-of-town retail activity, this paper considers the ways in which these development have changed shopping behaviour and the implications for UK retail planning policy in the years ahead.
  • Strong and weak unionism in Mexican retail enterprises
  • Analyzing forty-one retail collective bargaining contracts from four Mexican cities, the A. findsconsiderable variation in wages and fringe benefits, benefits in excess of the legal minimum in 27 to 68 percent of cases (depending on the benefit
  • ), and cases of sustained improvement in contractual benefits. Detailed consideration of the patterns suggests that these contracts are not uniformly protection contracts, indicating that there is strong as well as weak unionism in Mexican retail, including
  • among official unions, but that competitive conditions in Mexican retail constrain the possibilities for strong unionism.
  • Discourse, displacement, and retail practice : some pointers from the charity retail project
  • Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; England ; Organization ; Project ; Retail trade ; United Kingdom ; Urban area
  • Behind the web store : the organisational and spatial evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto
  • Canada ; Cyberspace ; Electronic commerce ; Market ; Ontario ; Organization ; Retail trade ; Store ; Technological innovation ; Toronto
  • The A. examines the organisational evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto from a geographical perspective. He evaluates the implications of the adoption of business-to-consumer e-commerce technology for six Canadian bricks-and-mortar
  • retailers based in Toronto and assess how the associated changes in business structure have been inscribed upon the urban landscape.
  • The changing competitive relationship between small town centres and out-of-town retailing : town revival in South Wales
  • Commercial infrastructure ; Competition ; Consumer behaviour ; Enquiry ; Retail trade ; Shopping centre ; United Kingdom ; Wales
  • The article seeks to examine whether the reinvestment process has improved the commercial situation of a small town in the context of strong local competition and continued retail decentralisation. It is possible to reverse the commercial fortunes
  • of a middle-order traditional centre, even in the context of considerable competition from the newer retail forms.
  • Retail competitiveness in a middle sized border town (Komárno, Slovakia)
  • Consumer behaviour ; Economic recession ; Frontier ; Retail trade ; Slovak Republic ; Urban economy
  • The study deals with the rapid transformation of the Slovak retail network as well as it analyzes the changes in shopping habits in Komárno, a medium sized border town in Slovakia. The first part of the paper, which is based on a desk research
  • , analyzes the transformation of Slovak retail trade in the past few years. After providing an overlook of the national trends, the characteristic features of retail trade in Komárno are introduced. Those economic processes which are pointed out have
  • initiated fundamental changes in the retail trade of this gateway town in southern Slovakia. In the second part of the paper, the authors introduce the results of the field research carried out on two sets of samples with 300 respondents each
  • The change of urban retail structures and the new urban planning: the case of Barcelona
  • Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
  • Barcelona ; Catalonia ; Internationalization ; Large city ; Retail trade ; Spain ; Urban planning
  • This paper looks at retailing from an urban analysis tradition. Located at the cross-roads between different approaches, this line of thought allows new insights in old urban questions and, at the same time, proposes new theoretical perspectives
  • Retailing, public policy and urban retail planning. Proceedings of the international symposium
  • Commercial infrastructure ; Inner city ; Madrid ; Retail trade ; Spain
  • In this paper recent transformation in retailing structure in the city center of Madrid is analyzed. Besides this transformation, the typical retailing city center, with big stores and a lot of modern and specialized shops, still subsists
  • deterioration of the city center, have been the main causes of the evolution of city center retailing.
  • Economic crisis ; Economic geography ; Geopolitics ; Hungary ; Impact ; Retail trade ; Spatial structure ; Visegrád Group
  • The aim of the paper is to introduce the changes in the spatial structure of Hungary’s retail sector due to the crisis. First, the emergence and causes of the economic crisis and its impacts on retailing in Hungary and internationally are discussed
  • based on the multidisciplinary review of the Hungarian and international literature. This is followed by a short summary of economic and retail trends in the Visegrad countries during the period of the crisis based on data from the Central Statistical
  • Office, Eurostat and international market research companies. The second part of the paper analyzes the complex consequences of the economic crisis on retail trade turnover and retail shops in Hungary with special regard to geographical differences. - (AM)