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Retail Stores in Poor Urban Neighborhoods
Author(s) -
ALWITT LINDA F.,
DONLEY THOMAS D.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1997.tb00830.x
Subject(s) - zip code , purchasing power , purchasing , business , marketing , advertising , demographic economics , economics , keynesian economics
This paper examines several hypotheses about access to different types and sizes of retail establishments by residents of poor and non‐poor urban neighborhoods, using Chicago as a case study. As expected, poor zip code areas in Chicago have fewer and smaller retail outlets overall than nonpoor areas, including fewer supermarkets, banks, and large drug stores. After controlling for purchasing power, poor areas still lack large drug stores but, surprisingly, not banks and supermarkets. Residents of poor neighborhoods must travel more than two miies to have access to the same numbers of supermarkets, large drug stores, banks, and other types of stores as residents of nonpoor areas.