Location Analysis of Retail Stores in Japan in Terms of Retail Trade Management Type
Retail trade management type is one of the prevalent view point in recent retail trade studies in Japan. This study defines Type of Management Index (TMI) describes relative retail location tendency of each management type in urban area. The main purpose of this study is to show the location tendency using TMI and their regional differences in Japan. Total 113 MEAs (Metropolitan Employment Area, one kind of urban area) were selected for the analysis. Population mesh (about 1km<2>) data available in Japan was also used as ancillary information. Nine types of retail trade management (i.e. department store, GMS, clothing supermarket, food supermarket, furnishing supermarket, home center, convenience store, drugstore and specialized store) were chosen for the analysis. Firstly, LPI (Location Population Index, which explore absolute retail location tendency of each management type in urban area) for each type of retail trade management was computed using the mesh data. A significant relation between the number of shops and the distribution of population was found. Secondly, TMI was computed using the LPI to compare the results between the MEAs. The department store showed the highest LPI in all MEAs followed by drugstore and specialized store as second and third highest, respectively. Based on LPI, the home center was found to be the lowest one. Interestingly, the drugstore scored the highest TMI in metropolitan area. The specialized store, convenience store and home center showed very small differences of TMI in between the MEA. The TMI tendency of the department store and GMS were very high in local area as compared to other retail trade management types. In addition, the study is able to show the spatial differences of type management very clearly.
Nobuhiko Komaki
University of Tsukuba, JSPS Research Fellow
国际会议
广州
英文
234-239
2007-08-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）