The construction of accessibility: temporary consumer-assemblages meeting store-assemblages

• Retail stores constitute a great part of cities commercial venues and consumers visit them regularly when going shopping. Accessibility is in retail traditionally viewed as something pre-defined as geographic store location, transport provision, or included as one aspect among others as part of store satisfaction. However, these perspectives fail to consider the situational aspects of accessibility. This paper will explore how accessibility or inaccessibility is constructed and negotiated when older consumers are shopping for groceries. It is argued that accessibility is something created and negotiated in situ within the practices of everyday life. Accessibility is thus both negotiated and situational.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

accessibility

practices

assemblages

retailing

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)