Spatial strategies in retailing
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Spatial strategies in retailing
(The GeoJournal library)
D. Reidel Pub. Co. , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1987
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Bibliography: p. 247-251
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Description
Locational research has long been concerned with industrial plants and the site selection of retail stores. The major determinants and decision processes now seem to be fairly well understood. Con sequently, the research frontier in retailing has shifted to a higher spatial level, the location of stores in the regional and national context. Certainly, stores tend to be found where the population is, but beyond this obvious truth it is by no means outright clear how retailing companies with different formats and home bases perceive space and how space affects their performance, if at all. When the question is put this way, what appears trivial at first undergoes a change and seems now complex enough to be worth a closer look. It need not be true, to cite the most obvious of examples, that regions which are attractive as places of living for high-school and college students, the custom ary data base, are also worthwhile from the business point of view. No attempt is made here to pen etrate the topic at analytical depth. The ambition is simply to discover, with the help of numerous descriptive examples, whether any order does exist in the high-level spatial behavior of retailing companies.
Table of Contents
The Scope.- The Retailing Scene.- The Data.- What to Expect.- The Swedish Prelude.- Meeths.- IKEA.- Hennes & Mauritz.- Kapp-Ahl.- Gulin's.- Ara-Jet.- The Swedish prelude.- Historical Examples.- A & P.- Woolworth's.- Kresge's.- Penney's.- Gimbel's.- May's.- General lesson.- Environment.- Federal Trade Commission.- Competition.- Purchasing power.- Companies by State.- Oil Companies.- Shell.- Standard Oil (New Jersey).- Standard Oil (Indiana).- Common feature.- Food Stores.- A & P.- Safeway.- Kroger.- Lucky.- Albertson's.- Winn-Dixie.- Grand Union.- Southland.- Spatial lesson.- Restaurants.- Burger King.- Wendy's.- Long John Silver.- Church's.- Winchell's.- Victoria Station.- Fast food chains.- Specialty Stores.- Home Furnishing.- Levitz.- Pay less.- Lowe's.- Toys and Books.- Toys "R"Us.- B. Dalton.- Promotional Apparel.- Hit or Miss, T.J. Maxx.- Mervyn's.- Loehmann's.- Fashion Apparel.- Lord & Taylor.- Saks Fifth Avenue.- Neiman-Marcus.- 1. Magnin.- Fashion chains.- Common Features.- Discounters.- Korvette.- Almart.- Venture.- Gold Key etc.- Target.- Caldor.- Wal-Mart.- Low-markup department stores.- Department Stores.- Generalities.- Allied Stores.- Associated Dry Goods.- R.H. Macy&Co.- Federated Department Stores.- May Department Stores.- Dayton Hudson.- Carter Hawley Hale.- Common Traits.- Conclusion.- Abbreviations.- References.- Appendices.
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