1. Retailing and other services

2. Traditional pattern
• Wants local access • Willing to travel to a
to low order goods shopping centre for
such as bread, milk, goods with a higher
newspapers which value which are
are bought on a purchased less
Based on
regular basis, often 2 factors often, such as
daily, especially if household and
perishable electrical goods,
clothes and shoes

3. So…
• Local needs were met • Higher value goods
by corner shops in were purchased in the
areas of terraced town centre/CBD and
housing and suburban required a trip by
shopping parades bus/car

4. In the last 30 years technology has
had a major influence on the patterns
of retailing…

5. • Supermarkets began
to be built in
residential areas and
town centres
• Sold a range of food
and non-food items
• Expanded into larger
hypermarkets with
An important factor in this development
electrical goods was the rise in car ownership – load up
once a week with the ‘big shop’.

6. • Growth of non-food retail
parks
• Housed DIY, carpet and
furniture stores like Focus,
Do It All, B&Q, MFI etc.
• Many built on the outskirts
of town with easy access to
main roads
• Warehouse type buildings, Distinguished inside by design
often uniform in design and by display outside

7. • Huge out-of-town
shopping centres were
built
• On periphery of large
urban areas
• Close to major
motorways (some even
with their own junctions)
• Some of the best known
are Trafford Centre,
Meadowhall, Bluewater,
and the Metrocentre

8. • E-commerce and e-tailers
are growing – Electronic
home shopping using the
internet and digital
television.
• Supermarkets offer online
Many people still
shopping facilities, with want to examine
delivery to the door items before
purchase
• The impact upon other
shops is yet to be fully
Farmers markets
researched, but the effects are growing in
can be over-emphasised numbers – people
willing to travel
further for quality