Types of Retailing
Investigating six
different sorts of
shopping
environment
CONVENIENCE STORES
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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.
CBD Comparison Store
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They include book shops,
shoe shops and chain
stores like Woolworths.
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Shops found in the C.B.D.
( Central Business
District ) usually sell more
expensive high-order
goods.
Street Market
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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.
Out-of-town Superstore
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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.
Retail Park
Areas that have been set-aside at or near
the edge of towns and cities where outof-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
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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