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Abcs Of Shopping In Lancaster

By Claudine Hodges


The development and orientation of expenses is carried toward the parking lot and onto street. Particularly widespread this form is today in United States, where rows of shops consists of single strip malls (shopping in Lancaster). In retail zones is a collection of several specialized markets closely adjacent land. The buildings are structurally no unity. The Lands / parking the stores are often separated from each other. But functionally they form a retail agglomeration.

There are many definitions, the Austrian professional association for buying-center defines the classic buying center / buying mall as uniformly planned and managed, staffed by a larger number of independent retail, service and restaurant object. This is to prevent consumer markets with a small shop bar whose function is almost exclusively to cover short-term needs distort the image.

The recorded in documentation centers at the surface lower limit, however, meet the quality function of buying center, so the "buying" from shortlist goods (eg clothing, shoes, household items, electrical and electronic goods such. Etc.). Often in international definitions, the lower limit of rentable area at 10,000 sqm are recognized. The Federal Administrative Court adopts a buying center in terms of Land Use Ordinance, when "a spatial concentration of retail stores of different types and sizes - usually in combination with various service industries - is present, which is either planned uniform or nevertheless grown in a manner other than.

The offered products are much cheaper than the high street. Most are goods from surplus production, goods of "last season", discontinued models or (slightly) defective goods. The brand names serve as a magnet for customers, the clothing industry is represented dominant in rule.

This mix of industries has been optimized and standardized for decades that he is not very different from each other in different centers and the offer of center is often interchangeable. The mix is usually only adjusted to purchasing power of target clientele in price level. Also important is the location of shops and eateries to each other in center, which is specifically controlled by the center management.

Today, with approximately 43,000 buying centers, which have a 55% share of total retail sales, the US is the country with the most and largest malls in world. Despite lower in Europe, however, has prevailed this form of retailing in context of trend towards car-friendly city here. This offers the consumer not only integrated parking spaces the advantage of high bandwidth often coordinated Stores (Sectors) and regardless of weather buying.

Typical components of UEC are multiplex cinemas, musical - theater, nightclub or theater in combination with fast food and adventure and themed restaurants and trade. Additional offers may be bowling, fitness, game room, casino or galleries and museums. The urban entertainment center can exist as a single location, but is usually attached to a buying center or structurally integrated into a center, in which case the Center an "entertainment zone" exists.

In closed centers are the shops in a building. They are accessed by a common area, the mall. The Center is directed inward, the shops have turned their expenses to mall. The first of these buying centers were completed significantly outward, usually there was no daylight. Since the 1990s, closed malls with glass canopies are increasingly "open" to outside.




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