16/04/23

How is retail changing in the

UK?
DO NOW
Where do you and
your parents do most
of your shopping?

To identify how different goods will impact on shopping patterns.

To describe the distribution of retail locations in an urban areas.
To explain how patterns of retail are changing.
 To identify how different goods will impact on shopping patterns.

TASK
1. Convenient or comparison?
2. Think of a real example in where
you could buy each item
3. Why are we less likely to shop
around to find a cheaper
convenience product?
PUSH YOURSELF: Why would you go to different places for these items?
 To identify how different goods will impact on shopping patterns.

Key Terms
Key Word Definition
Definition:

Central The centre of an urban area

Business where shops are found 
District
(CBD)
Comparison More expensive items that
goods customers buy less often 
Catchment The area from which a shop gets
area its customers 
 To describe the distribution of retail locations in an urban areas.

TASK: Order these

shopping services
from smallest to
largest.

District Shopping Centre City Centre Corner Shop

Out-of-town
Suburban Shopping shopping centre
Parade
PUSH YOURSELF: Where
would you find these in the
city?
 To describe the distribution of retail locations in an urban areas.

Retail Hierarchy
TASK: Decide where
Size of catchment area

Out-of-town shopping centre

each of the type of

Number of shops
City Centre

District Shopping Centre shops would go on the

Suburban Shopping
Parade
map.
Corner
Shop

PUSH YOURSELF: Justify

your decision with
explanation.
To describe the distribution of retail locations in an urban areas.
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

How have
shopping patterns
changed?
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

TASK

-1960s 1990s Present Day

Where were people Where were people Where are people

shopping then? shopping then? shopping now

Why? Why? Why?

TASK: You need to

produce a timeline to
explain how and why
retail service
distribution has PUSH YOURSELF: How has this
changed and explain impacted on other areas of the city?
the impacts of this. What challenges may this mean?
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

Pre 1980’s

• Shopped locally
with local shop that
acted as butcher,
greengrocer and
bakers.

• People when to high

street frequently
if not daily
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

In the late 80s/early 90s

Car ownership increasing: So What?

People have more income: So?

More people are starting to live in the suburbs on the

edge of towns and cities: Why?

Poor public transport/parking and access to the CBD

made shopping there become less desirable.
•Impact on the CBD?

Increased demand for district/out of town

shopping centres.

Negative
Multiplier
Effect
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

THE BIRTH OF THE CONSUMER….late

80s, early 90s
People are becoming more and more interested
in shopping as incomes and car-ownership
increase:
• More choice
• Better value for money
• An enjoyable shopping experience
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

Early 90s
• Car ownership has increased, people like to use
their cars and want to be able to park easily.
• More people living in urban/rural fringe.
• People want convenience, don’t want to be stuck in
traffic jams
• Growth of OUT OF TOWN shopping centres as
people’s needs change.
• Parking is free in places like Brookfield Farm while
in town you have to pay to park.
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

Example of 1990s Out of Town Shopping,

Land in the city centre/town centre is really expensive as there
is a limited amount of it.
In the 1980s Sheffield developed a number of brownfield sites
(land that has been built on before) because of its secondary
industries closing = Much cheaper and larger area to develop
This led to the development of a number of retail developments
i.e. Brookfield Farm.

Retail moved away from CBD to

post industrial inner city and
rural-urban fringe
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

EARLY 2000s
The CBD has suffered greatly
from the change in retail
provision.

People are shopping elsewhere

so shops have closed leaving
once prosperous areas a run
of cheap £1in decline and
abandoned.

Small independent stores

where big brand names once
thrived

The area has suffered from a

negative multiplier effect.
 To explain how patterns of retail are changing.

The threat now lies in

an entirely different
place!

Today technology and globalisation has resulted in a completely

new shopping experience....

1. How has this effected all retail services in HIC countries? So

What?
2. What type of products to we buy online?
3. Why do we choose to shop online today?
How has Retail provision
changed in Cheshunt?