Retail in Sicily: an Overall View
In Sicily, the retail sector shows changes both from a structural point of view, with an increase in large-scale distribution at the expense of small businesses, and spatially, through the transfer of many commercial activities to the suburbs of cities or to extra-urban areas. This is a phenomenon t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/bsgi/article/view/1002 |
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| Summary: | In Sicily, the retail sector shows changes both from a structural point of view, with an increase in large-scale distribution at the expense of small businesses, and spatially, through the transfer of many commercial activities to the suburbs of cities or to extra-urban areas. This is a phenomenon that can also be observed in the rest of the country. The analysis of the most recent statistics in the sector, however, seems to highlight a significant flexibility of a part of the fabric of Sicilian commercial enterprises due to the widespread presence of small commercial businesses on the regional territory. |
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| ISSN: | 1121-7820 |