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DOI	10.7896/j.1229
	Village shops: outdated or revived model? Relevance for local supply, social functions and economic viability
	Kupper, Patrick; Eberhardt, Winfried
通讯作者	Kupper, P
来源期刊	STUDIES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
ISSN	1418-2106
出版年	2013
卷号	115 期号:2 页码:92-97
英文摘要	An increasing number of villages in many countries do not have any local supplier at all. In the retail sector of Germany, the large supermarket companies require at least 5,000 inhabitants in the catchment area to run a shop. The aim of this paper is to describe the contribution of village shops to local supply and social life as well as to assess their economic viability. Therefore, findings from a telephone survey of approximately 100 shop operators in Germany are presented. The results show the limited supply and social function of the shops as well as their precarious economic situation. Many shops only offer a small range of goods so that the coverage of basic needs is difficult and they are mostly visited for supplementary purchases. Most village shops provide a snack area as a meeting place, but these are relatively seldom used. The findings indicate that permanent public and civic support is required to sustain many small shops in small villages. Because of the market conditions, however, public initiatives cannot halt the trend towards increasing numbers of 'food deserts'; at best they can slow down the process. Where village shops cannot be sustained economically, home delivery services, mobile supermarkets or improved mobility services are feasible options for assuring local supply for less mobile people.
英文关键词	grocery stores local supply social life profitability rural retailing community retail enterprises
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000217123000006
WOS类目	Agricultural Economics & Policy
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/330391
作者单位	[Kupper, Patrick; Eberhardt, Winfried] Thunen Inst, Bundesallee 50, D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kupper, Patrick,Eberhardt, Winfried. Village shops: outdated or revived model? Relevance for local supply, social functions and economic viability[J],2013,115(2):92-97.
APA	Kupper, Patrick,&Eberhardt, Winfried.(2013).Village shops: outdated or revived model? Relevance for local supply, social functions and economic viability.STUDIES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS,115(2),92-97.
MLA	Kupper, Patrick,et al."Village shops: outdated or revived model? Relevance for local supply, social functions and economic viability".STUDIES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 115.2(2013):92-97.