GEO 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Central Place Theory, Price War, Maximum Exposure

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 151
• Professor: Steven Swales

Document Summary

Migration because people are moving from one place to the next. Ideas/knowledge: in each lecture, professors give students information (and vice versa) moving ideas from place to place. Communication moves (ie. cellphones, internet, messaging systems, social media) Fashion: from new york, paris, rome to the smaller cities when they go to the big cities and filter down: key advantages of retail chain; It can be a combination of two types of diffusions; it"s not exclusively belonging to one type. In a retail environment: organic growth (contagious, acquisitions and takeovers. In usa they started in arkinsall (pick a medium size town and put a walmart at a major intersection near the highway). In canada, they bought out an existing retail chain (woolco) and used those existing stores to create walmart"s. pg. One failure reason was a lack of sensitivity to the canadian market.