Types of Retailing

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Types of Retailing

• Investigating six different sorts of shopping
  environment

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CONVENIENCE STORES

• Local shops such as newsagents and small grocery
  stores.
• They sell everyday items (called low order
  goods).
• Their customers are local people from the nearby
  streets.

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CBD Comparison Store

• They include book shops, shoe shops and chain
  stores like Woolworths.
• Shops found in the C.B.D. ( Central Business
  District ) usually sell more expensive high-order
  goods.

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Street Market

• They sell vegetables and other goods (sometimes
  clothes) on some days of the week.
• They are often targeted at up-market customers
  e.g. organic farmers markets.

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Out-of-town Superstore

• These are very large branches of a retail chain,
  usually found at the edge of a city in retail
  parks.
• The largest stores are called hypermarkets.

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Retail Park

• Areas that have been set-aside at or near the
  edge of towns and cities where out-of-town stores
  can be grouped together.
• Sometimes large structures like Bluewater are
  created, so many retailers can be housed
  together.

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Metro Stores

• The latest trend in retailing, these new
  scaled-down inner city supermarkets are often
  attached to petrol garages, making shopping easy
  for people at the same time as they re-fuel their
  cars.
• They also provide services for people who live
  within walking distance of the garage