Changing Shopping Patterns:

Investigate!

Level 7 - Explain a range of human features and processes. Explain how places change. Identify trends

Task 1: Think of a title!

1960 Independents 60% / Supermarket 20% / Co-ops 20%

1980 Independents 20% / Supermarket 60% / Co-ops 20%

2000 Independents 08% / Supermarket 85% / Co-ops 07%

2009 Independents 05% / Supermarket 90% / Co-ops 05%

Plot these figures as divided bar graphs – make a key, use neat shading. Accuracy in graph work – pencil at first!

Describe what these figures show about the share of people shopping at these types of shops. Quote figures in your answer

Shopping Hierarchy

Regional Shopping Centre

S h o p p i n g S t r e e t

C o r n e r S h o p

City Centre / Shopping Precinct

Retail Park /Out-of-town shopping centre

Convenience goods

Low order goods

“Buy from nearest supplier”e.g.

Newspaper

Bread

milk

potatoes

For local people… 1960s

Losing trade

City Centre or Shopping Precinct

Comparison goods

High order goods

Shop around before buying

e.g.

Fashion

Jewellery

FurnitureCar parking issuesPedestrianisationFighting for Trade / Modernising

Shopping street

In part of a bigger town

Small family businesses

e.g.

Specialists like

Grocer

Greengrocer

Last 50 years competition with supermarkets =

Dying out!

cottage on the extreme left

…used to be butchers' shop

Losing trade

Retail park / edge of town - 1980s

Superstores

Large area of land

Massive car parking

Accessibility by road

Near a population centre

Gaining trade

Affecting town centres

Regional Shopping Centre 1990s

Indoor comfort of a two levels centre.

134 top name stores, 15 cafés and restaurants and other facilities all under one roof.

The Mall is open 7 days a week. 7000 free parking spaces.

e.g. Cribbs Causeway (The Mall) at Bristol is our nearest

“Heaven or Hell?”

  The doughnut effect is the name given to the increasing movement of retail from the C.B.D. (Central Business District) to the outskirts (rural-urban fringe) of the cities.

Obviously, cars have been the factor that have fueled this process, as well as, the attraction of an out-of-town site for retail.

Shops in the town centre closing down

Out of Town Retail Parks opened up

C.B.D.

City Centres fight back 2000s

Cabot Circus, Bristol

St. David’s 2 in Cardiff 2009

The ‘Big Four’ Supermarket chains account for 75% of all household spending on groceries in the U.K.! 2009

Pocket the difference!

Try something new today

2000s With a name like Express, it's not surprising that this is Tesco's fastest growing format, opening at least 50 stores a year! It meets customer demand for longer trading hours and greater convenience. Express stores are usually found at petrol stations and are aimed at local customers who want a convenient place they can trust to 'top up' their shopping.

Cyber Monday: Retailers expecting record online shopping sales – Dec 2009

British shoppers are expected to spend £300m online today, amid predictions that so-called "Cyber Monday" will be the busiest 24 hours in the history of internet shopping.

• 2009 7% of all spending

• Groceries forecast to be fastestonline growing sector

• £20 biillion spend annually?

• Online spending up 33% in 2006

• RISKS?

Task 2:

Describe the changes in shopping patterns in SE Wales since 1960 – mention real places.

Explain what factors encouraged the growth of supermarkets. (Busier lifestyles, rising incomes, more working women, wider car ownership, wider ownership of fridges and freezers, price v personal service!)

Discuss some different viewpoints people have of the issues of ‘shopping patterns’. E.g. a small shopkeeper, an elderly person, a car driving parent, an E. European migrant.

Give your own view.

Task 3:

Next you’ll carry out your own investigation into internet shopping!