- Isolated store - An isolated store is freestanding, not adjacent to other stores. This type of location has several advantages, including no competition, low rent, flexibility, road visibility, easy parking, and lower property costs. There are also distinct disadvantages: difficulty in attracting traffic, no variety for shoppers, no shared costs, and zoning restrictions.
- Planned shopping center - A planned shopping center is centrally owned or managed and well-balanced. It usually has one or more large (anchor) stores and many smaller stores. During the past several decades, the growth of the planned shopping center has been great. This is due to extensive goods and service offerings, expanding suburbs, shared strategy planning and costs, attractive locations, parking facilities, lower rent and taxes (except for most regional shopping centers), lower theft rates, popularity of malls (although some people are now bored with shopping centers), and lesser appeal of inner-city shopping. The negative aspects of the planned center include operations inflexibility, restrictions on merchandise lines carried, and anchor store domination. There are three shopping center forms: regional, community, and neighborhood.
- Unplanned business district - An unplanned business district generally has such points as these in its favor: variety of goods, services, and prices; access to public transit; nearness to commercial and social facilities; and pedestrian traffic. Yet, this type of location's shortcomings have led to the growth of the planned shopping center: inadequate parking, older facilities, high rents and taxes, discontinuity of offerings, traffic and delivery congestion, high theft rates, and some declining central cities..
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