Shopping : some options from an expert.

‘You prat: Miss Selfridges and Selfridges are NOT the same thing.’ (M.Biddulph: GTE 2005)

Charles Rawding: Edge Hill University

See for instance: D.Waugh & T.Bushell: Foundations (new edition).Stanley Thornes. (1996)p58

Traditional approaches to shopping

Additions to deletions from since the previous basket

1952/56 1962 1974 1987 1995

Food and drink RabbitsTurnips Swedes

Pears LardPrunes

Condensed milkBeer in party containersDried mashed potatoes

Luncheon meat

Frozen peas Dried mashed potatoes

Canned sweet corn AvocadoKiwi fruitReady cooked meals

Fuel CandlesLamp oil

Paraffin

Paraffin Butane gas

Household equipment

Tin kettle mangle Oil heater Roasting tin

Electrical appliances

Electric fireWashing machine

Fridgecooker

Tumble drierdishwasher

Audio-visual TV mono Record player cassette recorder

Colour TVVHS recorder

Personal stereo

RadioRecord player cassette recorder

TV mono

Changing components of the retail price index

Source: Adapted from O’Donoghue et al: 2006.

Geographies of consumption

Shopping: some alternative approaches•As consumer practice embedded in modernity

•Shopping in ‘new’ locations

•The changing nature of retail locations

•The changing nature of retail operations

Shopping in ‘new’ locationsOut of town shopping centres

Retail parks

Shopping in ‘new’ locations

Shopping in ‘new’ locations

‘Village’ shopping – Hornsea Freeport

Shopping in ‘new’ locations

One-stop shopping

Shopping in ‘new’ locations

Niche locations

Shopping in ‘new’ locationsShopping and travel

Shopping in ‘new’ locationsShopping online

The changing nature of retail locationsDate Retail environment

Early 20th century Small independent shops often occupying ground floor of residential properties.

1918 – 1960s Growth of national chains – purpose-built shops to corporate designs

1960s – 1980s Progressive pedestrianisation of central areas. Development of indoor shopping centres in central areas.

1980s - present Construction of out-of-town shopping centres. Redevelopment / renewal of central area shopping

Source: C.Rawding: Reading our landscapes. Chris Kington, Cambridge, 2007. p69

Top 10 clone towns with least local identity

Top 10 home towns with most local identity

Exeter Hebden Bridge

Dumfries Peebles

Stafford Bo’ness

Middlesbrough Normanton, West Yorkshire

Weston-super-Mare Frodsham

Winchester Emsworth

Newport Hadleigh, Suffolk

Dorchester Great Malvern

Cheltenham Lewes

Burton on Trent GainsboroughSource: The Guardian. 6th June 2005.

The changing nature of retail locations

Landscapes of globalisation and standardisation

The changing nature of retail locations

The changing nature of retail locations

‘leisure’

The changing nature of retail locations ‘retail’

The global geographies of leading trans-national food retailers.

Source: P.Dicken: Global shift. 5th Ed 2006. p37

Tesco, Krakow, Poland

Borsch packet soup and goulash ready-meals are the new battleground for British retailers and manufacturers as they meet the demand for home-grown comfort food from the country's burgeoning Polish community.

An estimated 750,000 Poles - 2 per cent of the total Polish population - now live in Britain and the market opportunity afforded by the Polish pound (actually the zloty) is not going unnoticed.

Nestle is going head to head with its arch-rival Heinz by bringing Winiary, its Knorr-style Polish food brand, to the UK. The brand is a household name in Poland, generating sales of around £100m and Nestle is to launch the bestselling product lines, including the white and red borsch-flavoured packet soup, stock cubes and favourite pudding, kisiel o smaku truskawkowym, a soft strawberry jelly. The move is backed by a campaign in Dziennik Polski, the daily Polish language paper which has a UK circulation of around 30,000. (Observer 24th June 2007)

‘Food giants cash in on a taste of Poland’

The Blue Jeans Story.

Source: McPartland in Balderstone (2006) p171

Wall displays of pupil work

Retail geographies:where next ?