Community warehouse
A joint warehouse is a department store-like association of independent specialist shops and service providers with spatial and sometimes organizational links, analogous to the market halls .
history
The department store of some German cities in the Middle Ages was the first form of the community goods store . Especially was aware of the 1812 demolished Mainz department store on fire to the already 1437-1444 a buying house rules was enshrined in Mainz department store most of the goods were wholesale bought.
Similar forms of sales, the bazaars of the early 19th century, were at the cradle of the modern department store in Paris . There were also frequent changes in the form of organization: The Moscow GUM department store , for example, began as a community warehouse , was later converted into a regular department store and is now a shopping center again . The Vienna department store Stafa took a similar development .
The classic joint department store is no longer of any importance in Germany. In view of the crisis in department stores that occurred in the last third of the 20th century, however, there is now an increasing trend towards leasing in larger specialist stores to cover specialized product areas and to approach the modern form of distribution of the shopping center.
literature
- Klaus Hoose: The community warehouse. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1972, ISBN 3261007877 .
References
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net/rheinhessen about the Mainz department store regulations. Quote: “The fees for the use of the scales, for the storage of the goods and the organization within the department store were also determined. Mainz dealers had to pay less fees for many goods than foreigners. ” [ Chapter from“ Das Kaufhaus am Brand ”on the same website ] According to this, there were sales outlets for domestic and foreign dealers in the house, as in a good communal department store until today. The medieval department stores are not to be confused with the modern department store .