what is the positively impact of supermarket in the community?
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Supermarkets built on either in-centre or edge-of-centre sites, in accordance with the ‘town centres first’ policy introduced by the Government in the mid 1990s, encourage significantly fewer local residents to leave the town for their main food shopping.
Those stores are not just used for ‘one-stop’ shopping. Shoppers link their supermarket trips with visits to other shops, increasing town centre footfall and enhancing vitality and viability.
Consumers are highly positive about the impacts of such developments on themselves and their families, other local residents, and the town centre.
Town centre traders are positive about the impacts of such developments on local residents and the town centre, and take a generally positive or neutral view on the impacts on their own businesses.
Detailed study of changes in retail composition of the eight centres provides little support for widely held views linking supermarket development to the decimation of existing centres and their retail diversity.