GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Category Killer, Arena, Acid Rain
10 Nov 2016
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Power centre: an agglomeration of big box retail outlets and other conventionally-sized retail outlets that typically share a common parking area, retailers found that by building a large, but inexpensive store with a big sign. Across the street from a regional mall they could offer lower prices for the same goods that were found in the mall. Bix box stores: retail outlets that are several times larger than the average store in the same retail sector, also known as (cid:494)destination(cid:495) or (cid:494)category killer(cid:495) retailers. Customers are attracted to the prices or selection at a particular store, instead of comparison shopping among the cluster of similar stores within a regional shopping centre or downtown. Winnipeg survey: visits to more than one store in a power centre regularly involve using a car to move between stores. Greyfields: (cid:498)underused, economically obsolete, retail tract located in an inner ring suburb that requires significant public and private involvement to curtail decline(cid:499)
