Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challenges
During the second half of the 20thcentury, consumption patterns in the developed market economies have stabilised, while in the transition/EU-accession countries these patterns were accepted with unusual speed and dynamics. Differences, changes and current trends in Western Europe and post-socialist...
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| description | During the second half of the 20thcentury, consumption patterns in the developed market economies have stabilised, while in the transition/EU-accession countries these patterns were accepted with unusual speed and dynamics. Differences, changes and current trends in Western Europe and post-socialist countries in the quantity and concentration of retailing activities have been minimised, whereas some distinctions in the quality of retail environments have remained. Changes have occurred in buying habits, shopping behaviour and consumer preferences basically for all population groups across the generations. This article is a theoretical and conceptual introduction to a Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports (Volume 26, No. 3) on “The contemporary retail environment: shopping behaviour, consumers’ preferences, retailing and geomarketing”. The basic features which have occurred in European retailing environments are presented, together with a comparison (and confrontation) between Western and Eastern Europe. The multidisciplinary nature of retailing opens the discussion not only from a geographical perspective but also from the point of view of other social science disciplines that naturally interconnect in the retail environments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e41ea399919a41c3b1bb52f026570d642022-12-21T21:26:45ZengSciendoMoravian Geographical Reports1210-88122018-09-0126315015910.2478/mgr-2018-0012mgr-2018-0012Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challengesKunc Josef0Križan František1Department of Regional Economics and Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University,Brno, Czech RepublicDepartment of Regional Geography, Protection and Planning of the Landscape, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius university inBratislava, SlovakiaDuring the second half of the 20thcentury, consumption patterns in the developed market economies have stabilised, while in the transition/EU-accession countries these patterns were accepted with unusual speed and dynamics. Differences, changes and current trends in Western Europe and post-socialist countries in the quantity and concentration of retailing activities have been minimised, whereas some distinctions in the quality of retail environments have remained. Changes have occurred in buying habits, shopping behaviour and consumer preferences basically for all population groups across the generations. This article is a theoretical and conceptual introduction to a Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports (Volume 26, No. 3) on “The contemporary retail environment: shopping behaviour, consumers’ preferences, retailing and geomarketing”. The basic features which have occurred in European retailing environments are presented, together with a comparison (and confrontation) between Western and Eastern Europe. The multidisciplinary nature of retailing opens the discussion not only from a geographical perspective but also from the point of view of other social science disciplines that naturally interconnect in the retail environments.https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2018-0012retail landscapesretailingshopping behaviourconsumer preferencesresiliencewestern europeeastern europe |
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| title | Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challenges |
| title_full | Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challenges |
| title_fullStr | Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challenges |
| title_short | Changing European retail landscapes: New trends and challenges |
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| topic | retail landscapes retailing shopping behaviour consumer preferences resilience western europe eastern europe |
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