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Retail geography, or geography of retailing, is the study of where to place retail stores based on where their customers are. The use of retail geography has grown significantly in the past decade as a result of the use of geographic information systems . It first emerged in the United States in the 1960s. [1]
In marketing, geomarketing (also called marketing geography) is a discipline that uses geolocation (geographic information) in the process of planning and implementation of marketing activities. [1] It can be used in any aspect of the marketing mix — the product, price, promotion, or place ( geo targeting ).
The term product assortment refers to the combination of both product breadth and depth. The main characteristics of a company's product assortment are: [4] (1) the length or number of products lines the number of different products carried by a store (2) the breadth refers to the variety of product lines that a store offers.
In addition to Newton's Law of Gravity in the physical sciences, there were other antecedents to Reilly's "law" of retail gravity. In particular, E.C. Young in 1924 described a formula for migration that was based on the physical law of gravity, and H.C. Carey had included a description of the tendency of humans to "gravitate" together in an 1858 summary of social science theory.
Retail life cycle theory explains how the existing retail formats develop and why the retail formats develop in this way. Many different factors, such as price cycle, market environment and macroeconomic fluctuations and so on, are attributed to the influence of retail life cycle, which makes the theory more convincing.
The retail format (also known as the retail formula) influences the consumer's store choice and addresses the consumer's expectations. At its most basic level, a retail format is a simple marketplace , that is; a location where goods and services are exchanged.
One example would be its work in its applied sciences lab on a Star Trek holodeck-esque magic wall (Microsoft must have read this article by fellow Fool Jim Mueller). Another would be Microsoft ...
The International Council of Shopping Centers makes the presence of anchors one of the main defining characteristics of the two largest categories of centres, the regional center with 400,000 to 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) in gross leasable area, and the superregional center with more than 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) of space.