Commerce et territoires nationaux: des macrogéographies rares mais indispensables

For retail geography, most significant reports of studies conducted at national scale are the empirical determination of catchment areas and urban hierarchies, the highlighting of the diversification of trade polarities, the monitoring of spatial dynamics of trade integration process and diffusion of new commercial forms and the demonstration of the effect of consumer profile on commercial equipment. Due to (equipment, methodological or epistemological) investment required for the mobilization of data, studies at national or regional scale are quite rare, making them more valuable because they allow to contextualize a rich scientific production carried out at a larger scale (street, neighborhood, city).SCOPUS: ar.j