The impact of out-of-town shopping centres on town-centre retailers and employment: The case of the Region of Murcia

Padilla, Armando Ortuño; Hermosilla, Antonia Alarcón; Ozores, Olga Tomás

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.014

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“…The retailing literature has long studied the competition among different shopping channels, yet the emphasis has been on examining the attributes of these channels as well as understanding consumer needs and motivations that led to a preference for specific channels (e.g., Alzubaidi et al, 1997;Bearden, 1977;Ortuño Padilla et al, 2017;Pratt and Pratt, 1960). The present study contributes to the literature by taking an alternative symbolic approach and investigating the stereotypical judgments of consumers across different shopping channels.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For decades, reports have shown that external shopping agglomerations took sales from the town center (Bearden, 1977;Ortuño Padilla et al, 2017;Pratt and Pratt, 1960). As early as the 1950s and 1960s, studies on out-of-town shopping developments were available in the retail literature (e.g., Pratt and Pratt, 1960;Stone, 1954).…”

Section: Town Center Versus Out-of-town and Online Shoppingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, in culturally distinct countries like Turkey, external centers can be associated with status as much as town centers (Ozuduru et al, 2014). Town center revitalization is an ongoing issue in several countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, and Spain (e.g., Michel and Stein, 2015;Ortuño Padilla et al, 2017), and there is a need to improve our understanding of consumer behavior to reach the objective of more economically active town centers. Second, the main distinction in income in this study was presented as earning income versus receiving unemployment welfare.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such an understanding would be important for several reasons. Given the current governmental, managerial, and academic interest in revitalizing economic activities in town centers (Ortuño Padilla et al,2017;Wahlberg, 2016;Whysall, 1995) and the idea that consumption and purchase behavior are very much determined by social motives, we believe that town center managers could enhance marketing capabilities and compete more effectively with other channels through understanding the role of stereotyping, user imagery, and symbolic values of town center shopping. From a retailer perspective, such understanding could be relevant when crafting channel strategies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘You are where you shop’: Examining stereotypes about town center shoppers

Tunca

Anselmsson

2019

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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The future role of the town center as a retail hub is uncertain. Despite being a historical meeting place, town centers have been struggling for decades to attract customers and retain retailers after the development of out-of-town centers and advancement of online shopping. Previous retail research has mostly used rational explanations and strategies like improved access, pricing, and retail mix to deal with this situation; but this study uses the stereotyping framework that traditionally examined user imagery associations. Town centers have historical charms, cultural establishments, and high streets, which may give rise to certain stereotypical judgments of consumers who prefer or dismiss town centers over other channels, such as more mass consumption-oriented out-of-town centers or online retailers. Could stereotyping be an alternative way to generate alternative strategies to cope with the decline of town center retailing? In two experiments with representative samples (total N= 703), we found that town center shoppers were perceived to be more likable, cultured, and moral, but less frugal than out-of-town and online shoppers. We further observed that status and polarization were central to our postulation as the results were moderated by income type such that only employed, but not welfare-recipient, town center shoppers were perceived positively. These findings not only support the role of symbolic consumption and stereotypes in retail channels, but also provide strategic marketing implications for town centers where retailing activities are in decline.

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Anselmsson

2019

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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“…Research by Dellaert et al (2008) shows that weather conditions are one of the top considerations for Dutch consumers when making shopping trip decisions. According to Padilla et al (2017), the first decentralised and indoor mall was designed in the US in 1956 specifically to protect consumers from outdoor weather conditions. This acts as a contrast to high street retail offerings, which are often more spread out, with detached parking facilities and no cover between shops (Badorf & Hoberg, 2020).…”

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It’s the Weather: Quantifying the Impact of Weather on Retail Sales

Rose

Dolega

2021

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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The weather is considered as an influential factor on consumer purchasing behaviours and plays a significant role in many aspects of retail sector decision making. As a result, better understanding of the magnitude and nature of the influence of variable UK weather conditions can be beneficial to many retailers and other stakeholders. This study addresses the dearth of research in this area by quantifying the relationship between different weather conditions and trading outcomes. By employing comprehensive daily sales data for a major high street retailer with over 2000 stores across England and adopting a random forest methodology, the study quantifies the influence of various weather conditions on daily retail sales. Results indicate that weather impact is greatest in the summer and spring months and that wind is consistently found to be the most influential weather condition. The top five most weather-dependent categories cover a range of different product types, with health foods emerging as the most susceptible to the weather. Also, sales from out-of-town stores show a far more complex relationship with the weather than those from traditional high street stores with the regions London and the South East experiencing the greatest levels of influence. Various implications of these findings for retail stakeholders are discussed and the scope for further research outlined.

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Shopping centres in decline: analysis of demalling in Lisbon

Guimarães

2019

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The impact of out-of-town shopping centres on town-centre retailers and employment: The case of the Region of Murcia

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

‘You are where you shop’: Examining stereotypes about town center shoppers

‘You are where you shop’: Examining stereotypes about town center shoppers

It’s the Weather: Quantifying the Impact of Weather on Retail Sales

Shopping centres in decline: analysis of demalling in Lisbon

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