The Great Success of Out of Town Shopping Centres
Out of town shopping centres such as Meadowhall are very recent
creations and did not exist 20 years ago. These shopping centres are
usually built near main roads such as motorways as they are easy to
access. Shopping centres such as Meadowhall are either built on
Greenfield (building on farmland) or Brownfield (building on derelict
industrial land) sites as the land is cheap and there is plenty of
space for future expansion and car parking. As the land is cheap it
allows individual shops to use large areas of floor space. (E.g.
Debenhams) Meadowhall is situated next to the M1 motorway at junction
34, between Sheffield and Rotherham. It lies on the Sheffield
Supertram route, in the shadow of the Tinsley viaduct. It is situated
approximately 3 miles north east of Sheffield city centre.
Until 24 February 1984, the land on which Meadowhall stands was
occupied by a steelworks when the steelworks closed the land lay
derelict until construction of meadowhall began in June 1988.
Meadowhall was opened on September 4th 1990. It needed 2,000,000
bricks, 10 miles of drainage pipes, 10,000 tons of steel, 98,000M³ of
concrete and 21,000 panes of glass to give meadowhall its spectacular
look it has today.
Meadowhall's 270 shops created thousands of new jobs and attracted
thousands of visitors from many surrounding towns and cities. In fact
in the first year there were a staggering number of 19.8 million
visitors. The fact that over 7.5 million people live within an hour's
drive of the centre, that's an eighth of the British population means
that the average number of visitors a year is around 30 million.
To get to Meadowhall is very easy. From junction 34 you catch the M1
motorway, both north and southbound. Once there, there are 12,600 free
car parking and traffic around the centre is managed by a computer
controlled cacti system to ensure traffic flow at all times.
Sheffield in south Yorkshire is England's fourth largest city with
approximately a population of 513,234.
To create a sound piece of writing it is imperative to develop skills that make the piece both enjoyable and understandable to the reader. By doing so we become academic writers who acknowledge the importance of careful and concise writing. The piece of writing that I found best exemplifies an academic piece in its use of Craft tips is “The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate”, by Nestle. I believe this because of its meta-commentary, outstanding framework while quoting, and use of transitional phrases. This particular essay pulls together ideas about a modest subject, the grocery store and its’ setup, in a way that is intriguing to the reader by the expansion of simple ideas,
Over the years, the American department store has developed and evolved as not only a commercial business but also a cultural institution. While it has weathered many storms and changes since its inception and throughout history, its most predominant enemy has been a change in the lifestyle of the American people (Whitaker, 2013). As the customer’s needs and wants have shifted, department stores have struggled to keep up with demands. It has been argued that the decline of the department store has been ongoing for the last 50 years (Whitaker, 2013). This dissertation aims to understand how the department store has historically played a role in consumer culture and spending, and additionally, how this has evolved and changed in today’s retail market. Although department stores may not be able to take all the credit for inventing modern shopping, they certainly made its conventions and conveniences commonplace. They set a new standard for the way the consumer should expect to be treated, the type of services that should be provided, and the convenience that should attend the process of acquiring the necessities and niceties of life all in one place. They made shopping into a leisure pastime. This environment meant shopping was a means of freedom to look around, pick up objects with no obligations to buy. As one historian remarked, department stores: “encouraged a perception of the building as a public place, where consumption itself was almost incidental to the delights of a sheltered promenade in a densely crowded, middle-class urban space” (Whitaker, 2006). Although this perception and view of the department store has changed over the years, this paper aims to follow the trail of how and why that happened.
The open shop movement was an attempt on the part of corporations, trade associations, chambers of commerce, and their political supporters to weaken the organized labor movement by requiring employees to work in an open or nonunion workplace. Gains in labor union membership in the early 20th century prompted sharp responses from employers and businessmen, and antiunion organizations such as the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Anti-Boycott Association organized campaigns at both the local and national level aimed against strikes, boycotts, and political action among workers. Although the majority of employers had long opposed labor unions and resisted the closed or union shop (whereby workers were required to join the union as a condition of their employment), the open shop movement began in earnest in response to the wave of labor unrest that followed World War I.
...inment industry, as well they must, to have such an enormous variety of successful departments areas of concern, the customers would have to walk into the shops unless they are all drive-thru buildings. Therefore, the must be some type of pedestrian activity.
“So what’s wrong if the country has 158 neighborhood California Pizza Kitchens instead of one or two?” Virginia Postrel inquires in her In Praise of Chain Stores essay (Postrel 348). In rebuttal, I plan to answer her question with more reasons than one. However, the responses I intend to offer apply not only to the CPKs of America, but for all the national retailers, big box stores, chain stores, and the like. National retailers destroy the local character of small towns. Chain stores should be limited to only run in a few highly populated urban areas. Furthermore, the costs saved in the convenience and familiarity of chain stores do not outweigh the negative economic impact and damaging effects that they can have on a community’s well-being.
Who doesn’t like shopping? I can’t name one person. Phyllis rose states many positive qualities in her essay “Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today”. One of the positives qualities she mentions about shopping is that it’s a form of therapy. Being that I love to shop. Rather it’s online or going to the stores it’s something I also find very therapeutic. You don't really need, let's say, another sweater. You need the feeling of power that comes with buying or not buying it. You need the feeling that someone wants something you have--even if it's just your money. To get the benefit of shopping, you needn't actually purchase the sweater. After a long stressful work or school day there’s nothing more relaxing than walking around
Whenever we go out shopping or relaxing at malls, we actually don’t see or recognize any effects of malls as we mostly go there for these two reasons. Malls are an integral part in the lives of America. They are shopping centers that have created a lot of buzz in many writers. This is because we have more malls in America than high schools. Malls have received praises from people like James J. Farrell, Jon Pahl and George Lewis who view malls as not only shopping centers but also as places that provide a reflection of the American culture and serve as centers of pleasure and entertainment. In contrast, William Kowinski and David Gutterson criticize malls for just being an artificial environment that creates disorientation among American shoppers. In my opinion, malls are just magnificent commercial buildings that create a sense of false dreams and imagination.
Chain stores have been around for years and have been growing in popularity and have been improving the economy. However consumers of smaller stores are claiming that bigger chain stores are ruining the appeal of America and its streets. Even though it may be claimed that chain stores are ruining America; chain stores are not ruining America because the stores make money to fund the fixing and building of roads and provides products to all types of consumers.
Goss argues that developers and designers of the built environment, specifically shopping centers and malls, use the power of place and understanding the structural layout of the space to boost consumption of the retail profits. Shopping centers are separated from the downtown area of shopping, either by distance and/or design. These establishments emerge for many to be the new heart and location for public and social life. In his article The "Magic of the Mall": An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment, Goss also argues that the regulation of the spaces within the mall creates an atmosphere of "community" rather than one that is "public". This article’s main argument is that developers manufacture an illusion of doing more than just shopping when designing malls and shopping centers.
Small towns and rural areas should have access to a grocery store in their community. Many small towns and rural area do not have access to a grocery store where they live. All small towns and rural areas should have access to a grocery store to shop and buy the things one need. By having access to a grocery store allow one to buy such things for their self, home, office, pet and etc. Many people go to the grocery store for different reasons to shop.
Dunnes Stores is an indigenous, family owned Irish Company. The Company is a retailer in both the food and textile market who work around the principle of providing competitive prices, high quality products and a vast variety of choices. The company’s motto of “Better Value” looks to draw in all these principles together.
...act, Langham Place is not alone. There are more and more shopping mall operates their business in the same manner as Langham Place. Though these shopping centres tried to make breakthrough using different methods, it seems that impressions of these shopping malls are blurred in eyes of public. Since these shopping malls are usually invested by large-scaled enterprises with great powers, merchants without resources to apply different tactics like these large-scaled shopping mall, will one day be eliminated. Those survivors will become copies of one another. As Shoppers' Paradise famous for selling products with different characteristics, if similar shopping malls are seen everywhere and merchants with distinguishing feature disappears, Hong Kong will soon lose its competitiveness among tourists. Resent among society may also arise and raise different social problems.
Essential shops: the essential shops consist of the commodities which are part of our daily needs. The shoppers have definite goals in this type of shopping. The movement is brisk, unidirectional and straight. These types of shops may require vehicular access; therefore, they are not very suitable for pedestrianisation.
A good location can have a significant impact in attracting potential customers, thus improving sales. Especially in the case of a supermarket, location is more important than other business sector. Customers never drive long distances to only buy daily necessities. Moreover, favorable location gives efficiency to company’s logistics because unnecessary moving cost can be cut down. So, we can say that it is important factor for the successful operation of the supermarket.
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