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Tag Archives: retailing
The pioneers behind historic Black-owned pharmacies
A quick trip to the drugstore sounds like a typically mundane shopping adventure we all have taken from time to time. Unfortunately, for Black Americans, especially during America’s Jim Crow segregation era, a trip to the pharmacy for prescriptions or … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Africa, business, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, commerce, consumerism, culture, demographics, diversity, economic development, education, entrepreneurship, geography, health, Health care, historic preservation, history, humanity, inclusiveness, injustice, land use, North America, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, racism, Science, shopping, social equity, States, third places, urban planning, Women
Tagged African-Americans, bigotry, business, cities, Civil Rights, drugstores, education, health, health care, health planning, injustice, Jim Crow, medicine, pharmacies, pharmacists, racism, retailing, segregation, soda fountain, Third places
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Geography of Costco logistics in North America: UPDATED
Below is a list of Costco’s distribution centers (they refer to them as depots) in North America and their square footage. Following the list is a weblink to a map created which shows how there are dispersed across the continent. Many … Continue reading
Posted in business, Canada, cities, commerce, consumerism, economic development, geography, globalization, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, Mexico, North America, planning, product design, spatial design, transportation
Tagged Canada, Costco, depots, distribution, geography, land use, logistics, maps, Mexico, retailing, stores, transportation, trucking, USA
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Grocery shopping au naturel
National organic and natural grocery chains such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Sprouts, and The Fresh Market have become increasingly familiar in cities across the country. However, there are a number of successful local and regional chains that also offer … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, bicycling, branding, cities, coffee shops/cafes, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, economic development, economic gardening, entrepreneurship, environment, fair trade, fitness, Food, food systems, geography, health, history, land use, marketing, natural and organic foods, nature, placemaking, planning, product design, social equity, spatial design, Statistics, sustainability, third places, urban planning
Tagged cities, coops, farm to store, farmers market, fitness, food deserts, foods, grocers, grocery stores, health, land use, markets, natural foods, organic markets, retailing, supermarkets
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Roadside Americana – discount department stores
The discount department stores listed below represent memories of the golden age of sprawl (if there is such a thing as a golden age for sprawl). Many of these were local and/or regional chains that grew out of a full-line … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, branding, cities, commerce, Communications, consumerism, Economy, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, logistics, Maps, planning, product design, spatial design, sprawl, Trade, urban planning, zoning
Tagged commercial uses, discount department stores, discount stores, highway commercial, land use, planning, retailing, urban planning, zoning
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An art deco masterpiece reawakens
There are many fine examples of art deco or art moderne design. But to this planner, one the most impressive art deco structures anywhere is the former Knapp’s Department Store, which adorns south Washington Square in downtown Lansing, Michigan. Completed in … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, branding, cities, civility, commerce, downtown, economic development, historic preservation, history, land use, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, spatial design, tourism, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged art deco, art moderne, cites, commerce, department stores, downtown, economic development revitalization, Greater Lansing, historic preservation, history, Knapp's, planning, retailing
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The good guys – stores NOT open on Thanksgiving!
Please consider doing more of your holiday season shopping at the stores listed below or any others that are closed this Thanksgiving Day, as this allows their employees to spend the holiday with their families. Kudos to each one of … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, Advocacy, branding, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, family, history, holiday, humanity, Love, marketing, peace, seasons
Tagged consumerism, family, good guys, Grinch stores, holidays, humanity, love, marketing, peace, retailing, shopping, thankfulness, thanks, Thanksgiving
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Sell bicycles? – then provide bike racks!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am sick and tired of retailers who sell bicycles, but do not provide bike racks for parking at their stores. While this tends to be a problem with some of … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, bicycling, bike sharing, Biking, branding, Cars, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, consumerism, culture, economic development, entrepreneurship, environment, fitness, health, infrastructure, land use, marketing, planning, product design, Small business, spatial design, sustainability, technology, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged bicycling, biking, cities, customer service, cycling, exercise, fitness, health, parking, retailing, transportation, walking
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Cool surfing shops of Cocoa
While carvin’ a course in the Space Coast of Florida last week, which also happens to be home to the East Coast’s Surfing Capital in Cocoa Beach, I stumbled upon a radical line of footgear whose genesis was in the … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, advertising, architecture, bicycling, branding, cities, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, fitness, fun, geography, health, land use, marketing, nature, peace, placemaking, planning, product design, recycling, Small business, sports, sustainability, third places, tourism, Trade, Travel, walking, weather
Tagged branding, Cabela's IKEA, cocoa, Cocoa Beach, entrepreneurship, Florida, marketing, Melbourne, planning, Pro Bass, retailing, Ron Jon Surf Shop, sandals, Sanuk, shoes, slang, Space Coast, surfing, The Flop Shop
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Obscene obsolescence tactics
There has been a more or less covert move afoot for the past few years by some big box retailers in Michigan and in Ohio to have their stores declared functionally obsolete by the state tax tribunal in order to … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, architecture, cities, civics, commerce, consumerism, economic development, economics, government, history, infrastructure, land use, marketing, planning, politics, product design, revitalization, spatial design, urban planning, zoning
Tagged big boxes, business, civics, land use, land use planning, retailing
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