The expansion of supermarkets: an embrittlement of the rural areas? Case studies in Midi-Pyrénées

L’expansion de la grande distribution alimentaire : une fragilisation des espaces ruraux ? Etudes de cas en Midi-Pyrénées

Michaël Pouzenc (1)

1 Dynamiques Rurales

Can the restructuring of the food retailing, corresponding mainly to the development of supermarkets and to the elimination of a large number of small shops, be read as a rural commercial decline? As a contribution to the rural embrittlement? In front of this question, several hypotheses can be moved forward, leading us to define various categories of commercial centralities and to analyze their evolution.

Mots clés: food retailing; rural areas; Midi-Pyrénées; France

Domaines: Géographie

Michaël Pouzenc. L’expansion de la grande distribution alimentaire : une fragilisation des espaces ruraux ? Etudes de cas en Midi-Pyrénées. CERAC. Commerce et espaces fragiles, pp.153-164, 2002. ⟨hal-01568283⟩