Types of Retailing

Investigating six
different sorts of
shopping
environment
 CONVENIENCE STORES

 Local shops such as

newsagents and small
grocery stores.
 They sell everyday items
(called ‘low order goods).
 Their customers are local
people from the nearby
streets.
CBD Comparison Store

 They include book shops,

shoe shops and chain
stores like Woolworths.
 Shops found in the C.B.D.
( Central Business
District ) usually sell more
expensive high-order
goods.
 Street Market

 They sell vegetables and

other goods (sometimes
clothes) on some days of
the week.
 They are often targeted at
up-market customers
e.g. organic farmers’
markets.
 Out-of-town Superstore

 These are very large

branches of a retail
chain, usually found
at the edge of a city in
retail parks.
 The largest stores are
called hypermarkets.
 Retail Park

 Areas that have been set-aside at or near

the edge of towns and cities where out-
of-town stores can be grouped together.
 Sometimes large structures like
Bluewater are created, so many retailers
can be housed together.
Metro Stores
 The latest trend in
retailing, these new
scaled-down inner city
supermarkets are often
attached to petrol
garages, making
shopping easy for people
at the same time as they
re-fuel their cars.
 They also provide
services for people who
live within walking
distance of the garage