ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the pressures on traditional growth models and shows how retailers are reacting in part by searching for new retail spaces niche spatial marketing using new retail formats. It describes how traditional growth models are under threat from a variety of factors and considers the impact on store location research. The chapter discusses a more miscellaneous set of location issues - new opportunities provided by transport hubs, reconsiderations of tourism spaces and the drive to international markets. The arrival of tightened planning legislation, greater competition and the threat of retail saturation could possibly have killed new large-scale retail development for good and hence retail location models would consequently become less important. A major store expansion strategy adopted by many retail firms under the conditions of harsher planning regimes, increased competition and saturation at home has been to expand internationally.
