Browsing by Subject "retail"

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    Auto accessibility measures to non-work destinations for the period of 1995, 2000, and 2005 for the Twin Cities region
    (2018-11-09) Levinson, David M; Liao, Chen-Fu; david.levinson@sydney.edu.au; Levinson, David M
    Highway-based accessibility measures to jobs and labor for the Twin Cities region were previous computed. The data here give the auto accessibility measures (TAZ level) to other destination types such as retail, entertainment, food/restaurant and recreation for the period of 1995, 2000 and 2005. The resulting access measures to different destinations will provide a comprehensive evaluation of accessibility in the Twin Cities region, which can help in operational planning and in public involvement activities of transportation agencies to ascertain how investments, transportation strategies, market conditions, and land use policies affect the performance of the transportation-land use system.
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    Duluth Retail Market Analysis
    (Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1983-06) Peterson, Jerrold M; Charnes, John M
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    Trade-Center Hierarchy in Greater Minnesota
    (St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension, 2012-10) Craig, William; Schwartau, Bruce
    This poster describes the research conducted by Craig and Schwartau to understand the economic vitality of cities outside of the 7-county metropolitan area. The authors found a more efficient method of measuring community economic activity when compared to previous trade-center hierarchy studies conducted by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. The authors discovered that using taxable retail and service sales related well to the previous CURA studies that used Dun & Bradstreet data to count businesses. The previous analysis was time consuming and costly, and the details were complex and sometimes confusing to readers. By using a simpler methodology, the trade-center studies can be done more frequently, thus giving more current information to better inform decisions by local citizens, businesses, planners, and policy makers. There is much interest in this research by staff at the Minnesota Department of Transportation as they plan highway improvements between the cities higher in the trade-center hierarchy and those lower. Trade-center hierarchy studies also indicate the number of goods and services available to consumers locally and regionally, information that can be useful to local planners and entrepreneurs.
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    Wearing Out: Digital Precarity In Just-In-Time Retail
    (2018-05) Van Oort, Madison
    Wearing Out: Digital Precarity in Just-in-Time Retail investigates the booming but vastly understudied world of fast fashion. Glance at any list of the world’s wealthiest people, and alongside Bill Gates, you’ll find Amancio Ortega and Stefan Persson, who head multinational retail giants Zara and H&M, both of which are now found in almost every major city in the United States. This sector of retail—known for quickly designing, producing, circulating, and selling tremendous amounts of trendy, cheap clothing—is an increasingly important player in the global market. For my dissertation, I embarked on one of the first ethnographies of the industry: working undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City, interviewing dozens of front-line workers and labor activists, and attending corporate conferences. The manuscript advances both sociology of work and critical data studies by providing an on-the-ground account of how big data and surveillance shape the lives of low-status workers in an industry in flux. I argue that fast fashion represents a distinct regime of retail capitalism, in which fast fashion retail companies take advantage of big data and biometric technology to perfect just-in-time production practices in the retail workplace, reaping profits by creating commodities and workers designed to wear out and frequently turn over. This digital precarity, I find, is entangled with broader forms of precariatization, digitization, and policing throughout society, compounding insecurity for already marginalized populations. Finally, my ethnography reveals how collective struggles for racial, gender, and economic justice in and around retail spaces help advance a critical data praxis.
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    West End Market Analysis
    (University of Minnesota Duluth, 1980) Peterson, Jerrold M; Batkins, Don; Huch, Ronald; Steinnes, Donald N