Nora MAREÏ, CNRS, France
Adeline HEITZ, CNAM, France
During the past decades, we have experienced the rise and fall of hypermarket and big malls in the peripheral areas. Consumers and public policies who foster the development of small supermarket, shops and boutiques in dense areas less promote this model. The principles of the "fifteen minutes city" and of proximity are prompting retail stakeholders to rethink their offer : we observe a re-development of street corner shops in cities. Street corner shops have always existed in different forms (i.e. traditional grocery stores, luxury food store, grocery stores of exotic products) and are the main distribution model in Global South Cities. In order to be able to establish themselves on this proximity market, the large distribution companies have developed urban mini-markets. Most recently, the rise of the dark-stores, which offer a 10 minutes delivery service for food products, attempt to disrupt the model of the street corner shop.
In this paper, we propose to examine the heterogeneity of street corner shops in Paris and to analyze their impacts in terms of mobility of goods. This research is part of a broader approach of city logistics evolution based on North-South comparison, in a context of logistics transitions in the world's major cities. This analysis will be built on several case studies but we will present in this conference the first results from the Paris case study.
Our main hypothesis is that the different types of street corner shops imply different impact on urban goods mobility and land use. In order to observe this we will explore and compare the logistics supply chain of each type. First, we will propose a spatial analysis of the street corner shop in Paris based on BDCOM database and complete these data with fieldwork. Then we will build a typology and conduct interviews to characterize the logistics supply chain of each type. Finally, we will observe their impacts in terms of urban good mobility and public policies regarding economic development.
Mots clés : urban distribution|distribution models|street corner shop|logistics transitions|urban goods mobility
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