The existential crisis of traditional shopping streets: the sun model and the place attraction paradigm

Carmona, Matthew

doi:10.1080/13574809.2021.1951605

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“…First, this section will focus on physical retailing stores. In the past two decades, scholars have agreed that e-commerce is becoming increasingly important in retailing, but their attitudes toward physical retailing vary [16][17][18][19]. Scholars who believe physical stores will not disappear in the future have two schools of thought on their future.…”

Section: Physical Retailing Storesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These steps help physical retail stores offer a broader selection of goods, a competitive advantage of digital retailing. The second group of scholars, including Carmona and Lecointre-Erickson, believe brick-and-mortar stores should develop their unique competitive advantages, such as tangibility, atmosphere, and face-to-face interaction, as well as leisure [19,21]. Tangibility influences consumer purchasing behaviour and is essential in marketing.…”

Section: Physical Retailing Storesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Imitation or Development? Physical Retailers in China

Liu¹

2023

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E-Commerce is becoming increasingly important as a retailing channel especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and large retailing companies in various industries has decided to embrace e-commerce. Nevertheless, some of the physical retailers not only managed to compete with e-commerce retailers but also gained exceptional growth even during the most stressful times of COVID-19 and yet has not received much scholarly attention. This research utilizes the concept of imitation strategy and development strategy as a theoretical lens to analyze how different attributes of the physical retailers influenced consumers’ decision-making process in the early post-pandemic era. The findings show that developing physical retailers’ unique attributes can be a more effective strategy when comparing to imitating e-commerce attributes. This study also discovered new consumer behavior patterns that can influence the effectiveness of the existing marketing channels and techniques. This research contributes to both academic and practical fields by developing cumulative theoretical frameworks related to physical retailing and e-commerce, and by offering corresponding strategic suggestions for retailers to obtain competitive advantage in the fast-changing retailing market.

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Liu¹

2023

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“…This suggests that markets are on the cusp of the shift from the release phase to the reorientation phase, with demand for multi-functionality and greater variation in retail centres. Innovation is a driver of this greater variation and examples include the development of new retail configurations (Hughes and Jackson, 2015; Jones and Livingstone, 2017), such as drive-thru coffee shops, competitive socialising leisure activities as new forms of land use, and the rise of ‘experience’ retailing (Carmona, 2021). Such innovations can trigger replication within those parts of the retailing and leisure sectors able to respond quickly and with dynamism.…”

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“…The literature highlights online retailing as the cause of their distress, but operational costs are also contributing to rising vacancies, uncertainty and instability, a situation exacerbated since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (CBRE, 2018; Mumford et al, 2021; ONS, 2021). The challenge these structural changes raise for urban centre management has focused attention on land use change and the creation of more diverse, vibrant places (for example, Carmona, 2021; Hubbard, 2017; Portas, 2011). Whilst this is not a particularly new response, it is one that has regained vigour in recognition of the growing surplus of retail space that needs to be repurposed (Grimsey, 2018; Savills, 2020).…”

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Ownership diversity and fragmentation: A barrier to urban centre resilience

Orr

Stewart

Jackson

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Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Fragmentation of ownership has long been a recognised constraint to UK city centre development, a complexity that is growing in significance as centres try to manage the decline in physical retailing and transform obsolete retail units. Yet, our understanding of the structure of ownership and how that might be facilitating or inhibiting urban change remains weak. In this paper, the objective is to address this gap by examining the structure and diversity of land ownership in five retailing centres - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham – between 2000–2017 using original databases created by linking administrative and commercial property data sets. Overall, the analysis finds property ownership to be spatially complex with ownership richness and diversity generally rising over the study period. The study also reveals that ownership structure has been shifting away from financial institutions towards overseas investors, private individuals and unlisted property companies, implying greater fragmentation of ownership. While the greater diversity in ownership should stimulate competition and innovation in property market practices, the shift in balance from equity-rich larger investors towards smaller and sometimes unknown investors makes urban centre management harder to manage. This suggests policymakers need to rethink the urban governance model to find a better way to galvanise the actions of this increasing disparate group of stakeholders if their visions of more resilient, mixed use city centres are to be realised.

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“…This growing trend is highlighted by Savills (2021) who estimate that nearly 9,000 units occupied by multiple retailers entered some form of insolvency arrangement in 2020 in the UK, and that 63% of these stores are located on the high street or in high street shopping centres. The result of shop closures and general contraction in demand for physical space has been a steady rise in vacancy rates (7.4% to 11.3% between the first half of 2013 and 2021 across England, Scotland and Wales, a situation exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic (Local Data Company, 2022)) and a growing appreciation that the retailing sector is intertwined with the local economy and social infrastructure in urban areas (Carmona, 2021;Wrigley & Dolega, 2011).…”

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Shifting prime retailing pitches. A GIS analysis of the spatial adaptations in city centre retail markets

Orr

Stewart

Jackson

et al. 2022

Journal of Property Research

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In this paper, the density and location of retail properties located within the primary retailing areas of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool and Nottingham are investigated over a 17 year period. The study is novel due to the original spatial databases developed and unique combination of established methods employed to explore spatial change within these northern UK cities. The paper starts from the premise that retailing markets display adaptive resilience where adaptations in use and variation in retail clustering will occur in response to endogenous and exogenous shocks that disturb the market's agglomerative and competitive effects. The results suggest that significant new retail-led developments have intra-urban spatial outcomes that impact on the size and location of prime and secondary retailing pitches. In urban retailing centres where there have been no substantive supply disruptions, disturbances in the socio-economic environment can create contractions at the peripheral edges of the prime retailing pitch. This study is significant in providing a historical perspective of the micro-level effects of new development, changing customer shopping habits and shifting retailer location preferences. In addition, the research develops replicable and robust methods that can be employed to examine and monitor spatial change in urban centres. Understanding these dynamic micro-spatial effects are important for the future management of urban centres.

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The existential crisis of traditional shopping streets: the sun model and the place attraction paradigm

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Imitation or Development? Physical Retailers in China

Imitation or Development? Physical Retailers in China

Ownership diversity and fragmentation: A barrier to urban centre resilience

Shifting prime retailing pitches. A GIS analysis of the spatial adaptations in city centre retail markets

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