1. Settlement revision: Retail services
LO: To understand how retail services are provided, and how these may change over time.

2. Learning outcomes:
You are able to suggest some changes to retail provision over time (E)
You are able to suggest changes to retail provision over time, and give reasons for why this has happened (C)
You are able to suggest changes to retail provision over time, using key words, and giving reasons for the changes – relating to a specific case study (A/A*)

3. Threshold population:
Key words/phrases:
Sphere of Influence:
The area that people come from to buy things. Shops that sell large, high order goods have bigger spheres of influence than convenience goods (low order goods)
Threshold population:
The minimum population needed to support a shop. Higher order good shops have a higher threshold.
Low order goods:
Goods bought frequently, e.g. food. These are also called convenience goods.
High order goods:
Goods that are bought less frequently, e.g. Electrical goods, furniture etc. These are more expensive and may be called comparison goods.

4. Changes in retail provision over time:
Think:
a). Why has retail provision changed over time?
b). What retail service is there more of now - Those selling comparison or convenience goods?
c). Where are you more likely to find high order goods stores – places with a higher or lower population? Why?

5. Why has retail changed over time?
Transport:
A want:
Money:
Your task:
Explain each of the pictures above to explain why retail provision and services have changed over time.
Extension: Can you add any more reasons?

6. A case study of changing retail services: Birmingham Bull Ring.
What did the Bull Ring once look like? What was its history?
What are the recent changes? Why did they happen?

7. To finish:
Can you think of any local examples of changes in retail provision?
E.g. Any out of town shopping centres, and any impacts these may have had on local shopping?

8. Learning outcomes:
You are able to suggest some changes to retail provision over time (E)
You are able to suggest changes to retail provision over time, and give reasons for why this has happened (C)
You are able to suggest changes to retail provision over time, using key words, and giving reasons for the changes – relating to a specific case study (A/A*)