Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography revision
- Key words
- Catchment area: how far away people will travel to use a service
- Threshold population; the number of people a service needs to be successful
- Comparison goods: products that are expensive and not frequently bought
- Convenience good: everyday items that are cheap
- Footfall: the amount of customers that walk by
- Lesson 1 / Changing patterns of retail
- Two types of goods: comparison, convience
- The catchment area of a local newsagent is small however Ikea has a large
catchment area
- Shops with a low threshold are shops for example that sell kitchens
- Shops with a high threshold are shops like MacDonalds
- One advantage of town centre high streets is that
there is easy acsess by public transport however
parking is difficult
- An advantage of a town centre shopping mall is
that there is space to develop however it is
congested
- A positive of out of town
retail sites is that there is
free parking however it is
difficult to get to if you
don't have a car
- One advantage of suburban shopping
centres is that there is free parking
however rent is expensive
- Lesson 2
- The reason why the number of people using
online shopping has increased is because t is
easier and day to compare
- one group of people say its easier
- The other say they
like the interactive
experience
- Positive impacts include
- people that live in remote locations
- Companies get more money from the people that I've in the countryside
- Less fuems are released due to people not
driving there and back
- Negative impacts
- People that work in local shops may lose
there job
- Independent shops lose money
- More lorries incense air pollution
- More shops are closing down due to the
ease of online shopping and the
increasing rent
- 3 reasons high street shops are closing
- Convenience of online shopping
- online gives consumers more choice
- the success of out of town retail
- Shops closing down mean less people
visit the high street and increase
crime
- The ways to make a high street more
appealing is to have more recognised and
rarer shops as well as more family friendly
space