ABSTRACT
We have identified three major differences between the processes that govern the spatial organization of the retail trade and services in St Petersburg during the post-transformation stage of development, and those of the transformation stage. We consider these processes to have a pronounced impact on business location. First, if under transformation, the process of saturating consumer demand for merchandise shapes a new spatial pattern of location for the retail trade and services, the post-transformation period is marked by the end of the saturation process and the launching of attempts to recast business actors under conditions of generally saturated demand. Second, the structure of demand and the related shopping models are diversifying and becoming very different from those of the transformation stage. Third, the emerging post-transformational business forms act upon different locational preferences. We deal with these three aspects in some detail below.
