Retail in Sicily: an Overall View

Girolamo Cusimano; Salvatore  Cannizzaro; Maurizio Giannone; Donatella Privitera

doi:10.36253/bsgi-1002

Authors

Girolamo Cusimano Dipartimento di Culture e Società, Università di Palermo
Salvatore Cannizzaro Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Catania
Maurizio Giannone Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università di Palermo
Donatella Privitera Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Catania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36253/bsgi-1002

Keywords:

large-scale organized distribution, suburbs, localization, micro-enterprises, flexibility

Abstract

In Sicily, the retail sector shows changes both from a structural point of view, with an increase in large-scale distribution at the expense of small businesses, and spatially, through the transfer of many commercial activities to the suburbs of cities or to extra-urban areas. This is a phenomenon that can also be observed in the rest of the country. The analysis of the most recent statistics in the sector, however, seems to highlight a significant flexibility of a part of the fabric of Sicilian commercial enterprises due to the widespread presence of small commercial businesses on the regional territory.