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Retail after COVID : impacts on accessibility
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Author
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Abstract
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| The current retail landscape is the outcome of heterogeneous consumer preferences. Fun shopping, which refers to the leisure aspect of retailing, is usually enjoyed in historical urban central places. Out-of-town strip malls or ribbon developments accommodate run shoppers who focus on efficiency and rationality. Sofa shoppers do not need physical outlets but rely on logistics services from warehouses (Verhetsel et al., 2022). From consumer and retailer perspectives, the pandemic served as a catalyst for e-commerce in different countries (Beckers et al., 2021; Roggeveen & Sethuraman, 2020). The past two years thus have had a massive impact on shopping-related travel behavior, retail accessibility, land use, and, as a result, local policymaking. After drawing the retail landscape before March 2020, we provide in this chapter an overview of the changing shopping behavior and mobility of consumers as a result of the pandemic. In the third section, we zoom in on logistics and transportation changes from the retailer’s perspective. We conclude on the impact of the pandemic on retail accessibility by confronting the new consumer behavior with the latest retail provision, drawing lessons for policymakers in the fields of planning, mobility, and transportation for logistics. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Part 2: wider transport and land use impacts of COVID-19
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Source (series)
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Advances in transport policy and planning ; 12
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Publication
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Academic Press
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2023
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ISBN
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978-0-443-23726-3
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DOI
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10.1016/BS.ATPP.2023.08.002
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p. 69-90
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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