Specialist store agglomeration
A specialist store agglomeration is an agglomeration of specialist stores outside the city centers . Since the beginning of the 1980s, this agglomeration of specialist stores has been critically discussed in Germany as a threat to traditional inner-city retail.
The Austrian professional association for shopping centers uses specialist market agglomerations (FMA) as an umbrella term for specialist market areas and for specialist market centers. The ACSC understands a specialty store area (FMG) as a
- grown (i.e. not uniformly planned) agglomeration
- of at least 4 specialist stores or businesses similar to specialist stores with a sales area of at least 150 m²,
- that are close to each other (within sight) and
- which together comprise at least around 4,000 m² of retail space.
A retail park (FMZ)
- was planned uniformly,
- is rented and managed from a central point and
- consists of at least four specialist stores or businesses similar to specialist stores with a sales area of at least 150 m²,
- which together comprise at least around 4,000 m² of retail space.
The inclusion of the retail parks seemed obvious or necessary, as the differences between FMG and FMZ are not perceived by consumers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Blank: Development of the retail trade in Germany: the contribution of area marketing to the realization of retail-related objectives of spatial planning policy, 2004, ISBN 3824482215 , page 183 online
- ^ ACSC . Austrian Council of Shopping Centers / Austrian Association for Shopping Centers.