This article examines how a store's location and pricing structure affects shopper behavior. Site maintained by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

This issue of the InformeDesign newsletter (May 2002) includes an article exploring how shopping behaviors influence future retail designs. The InformeDesign newsletter is published by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.

Tony Hernandez and Marco Biasiotto from the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity at Ryerson University (Canada) authored this article on retail location decision-making. This article was first published in the Canadian Journal of Regional Science and is hosted online by the University of Washington.

Jack Ries, Director, Product Innovation at Holophane describes how to create a comfortable shopping environment for your customer through visibility of products, lighting, color rendering, and sound.

This web site has several articles examining how proper planning of store design, visual merchandising, and store atmosphere can affect a customer's shopping behavior. Commercial site maintained by About.com.

Small business owners share how they succeeded in the retail industry following difficult times by examining their location; includes links to other retail industry articles on merchandising, display, signage, and more. The Sideroad is hosted online by Blue Boulder Internet Publishing.

Web site describes how to create "eye-catching" shopping environments using graphics-oriented design. Commercial site maintained by Retail Traffic, PRIMEDIA Business Magazines & Media Inc.

Visual Store offers several "channels" for people who work with retail visual merchandising including industry news, message boards, store design products, events, and more. The Visual and Store Design magazine is published by ST Media Group International.

Explore this database of articles related to visual merchandising hosted by the DDI Design Center, VNU eMedia, Inc.

This article from Self Service World written by Scott Slucher discusses a few critical success factors for creating digital signs in a retail environment.

Review an example of a company that provides software to help the small business owner design store layouts/floor plans and facilities centers. Commercial site maintained by SmartDraw.com

Research paper examines how Walmart's strategy for store planning and placement has affected rural communities, particularly poverty levels over a period of time. Available in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format, this paper is hosted online by Penn State University.

The effects of big box discount retailers on rural communities and their local business establishments are examined. Site maintained by Montana State University, Billings.

How big box establishments impact local environments is examined in this report published in the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (Volume 6 2004-2005), published by the Vermont Law School.

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