- Title
- The triple blow effect : retailing in an era of disasters and pandemics—the case of Christchurch, New Zealand
- Creator
- Dyason, David; Fieger, Peter; Prayag, Girish; Hall, C.
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187224
- Identifier
- vital:17035
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031779
- Identifier
- ISBN:2071-1050 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- In the last two decades, the retail sector has experienced unprecedented upheaval, having severe implications for economic development and sustenance of traditional inner-city retail dis-tricts. In the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, this effect has been exacerbated by a series of earthquakes in 2010/2011 which destroyed much of the traditional retail precinct of the city. After exten-sive rebuild activity of the city’s infrastructure, the momentum of retailers returning to the inner city was initially sluggish but eventually gathered speed supported by increased international vis-itation. In early 2020, the return to retail normality came to an abrupt halt after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses spending and transaction data to analyze the compounding impact of the earthquake’s aftermath, shift to online shopping, and the retail disruption in the Christchurch central retail precinct because of COVID-19. The findings illustrate how consumers through their spending respond to different types of external shocks, altering their consumption patterns and retail mode (offline and online) to cope with an ever-changing retail landscape. Each event triggers different spending patterns that have some similarities but also stark differences, having implications for a sustainable and resilient retail industry in Christchurch. Implications for urban retail precinct development are also discussed. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Relation
- Sustainability (Switzerland) Vol. 14, no. 3 (2022), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 by the authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; Consumption displacement; COVID-19; Economic development; Online shopping; Retail
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