Retail locations are amazingly small in “world cities” like London, but they appeared to me even smaller there than most. It may be due to characteristics of the clientele or of the merchandise, but those shops appeared too small to be believed viable. My memory of these observations (with no data at collection, just my own anecdotal observation) was triggered by this article, an attempt to use data to answer important questions of cost and benefit.
Planning supermarkets away, for less convenience and variety, higher prices and lower productivity
— from the Spatial Economics Research Centre