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The Impact of Trading Hour Deregulation on the Retail Sector and the Australian Community
The nature of retailing is undergoing radical changes through rising household mobility, the expansion of large planned suburban shopping centres (PSSCs) and the deregulation of trading hours. State Governments are facing difficult circumstances in policy formulation with the push for total deregulation in the times that shops are allowed to trade. This research examines the impact that deregulation will have on the ‘where’ and ‘when’ people shop and the results suggest that there will be a substantial shift in demand towards PSSCs over strip centres and corner stores within a short time period. This will allow the major chains to capture increased market share through public policy, in an already concentrated market. Furthermore, there are socio-legal concerns that need to be addressed in the restructuring of shopping from public space to private space in planned centres. It is argued that trading hour deregulation is an inequitable policy favouring large retail chains, shopping centre corporations and high disposable income groups, at the expense of less mobile groups, women in the retail work force and small business.
The Impact of Trading Hour Deregulation on the Retail Sector and the Australian Community
The nature of retailing is undergoing radical changes through rising household mobility, the expansion of large planned suburban shopping centres (PSSCs) and the deregulation of trading hours. State Governments are facing difficult circumstances in policy formulation with the push for total deregulation in the times that shops are allowed to trade. This research examines the impact that deregulation will have on the ‘where’ and ‘when’ people shop and the results suggest that there will be a substantial shift in demand towards PSSCs over strip centres and corner stores within a short time period. This will allow the major chains to capture increased market share through public policy, in an already concentrated market. Furthermore, there are socio-legal concerns that need to be addressed in the restructuring of shopping from public space to private space in planned centres. It is argued that trading hour deregulation is an inequitable policy favouring large retail chains, shopping centre corporations and high disposable income groups, at the expense of less mobile groups, women in the retail work force and small business.
The Impact of Trading Hour Deregulation on the Retail Sector and the Australian Community
Baker, Robert G.V. (author)
Urban Policy and Research ; 12 ; 104-117
1994-06-01
14 pages
Article (Journal)
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