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

International audienceCan 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