Unit 1 AOS 2 KK6

Question 1

Zoning

Answer 1

designed to keep business activities sperate from residential areas and prevent households from being disturbed by businesses operating late at night.

Question 2

Shopping centres

Answer 2

• Includes one or more supermarkets, small specialist stores, clothing stores, pharmacies, cafes, newsagents, and often post office, restaurants, entertainment services and bank branches
  
  • They have parking, access to public transport. Often include department stores (Myer, David Jones) and cinemas
    Negatives
  • Leasing a store In a shopping centre can be expensive
  • Time restraints can reduce independency

Question 3

Retail (shopping retails)

Answer 3

• Retail shopping strips have developed on major roads.
  
  • They struggle to compete with the growth of shopping centres
  • High visibility for passing traffic

Question 4

Retail shopping retails negatives

Answer 4

• Lack of parking
  Limited protection form the weather, which can reduce foot traffic

Question 5

Retail positives

Answer 5

• Can set own timing
  
  • Since shopping centres close in the evening, shopping strips become popular locations for afterhours entertainment

Question 6

Online prescence

Answer 6

Businesses are increasingly seeing the need to expand using the internet.
Others have added this component to their business to ensure they keep up with the competition and benefit from online sales

Question 7

Online presence negative

Answer 7

Costs of planning designing and maintaing an online Prescence are significant
Careful to protect personal information

Question 8

Home based businesses

Answer 8

Technology that is affordable and creative main reason businesses can be run from home
Most home businesses use the internet, computer applications and software

Question 9

Home base businesses negatives

Answer 9

May lose social interactions
Not being able to balance work from home life sperate.

Question 10

Factors affecting choice of location

Answer 10

Visibility, cost, proximity to customers and suppliers, proximity to competitors

Question 11

Visibility

Answer 11

A business wanting high visibility would locate in a prime shopping area, manufacturing businesses do not need highly visible locations

Question 12

Cost

Answer 12

Leasing or purchasing in central location will be more expensive
However less expensive places will often have less customers

Question 13

Proximity to customer and suppliers

Answer 13

Should be convenient for customers, access to transport networks important, industrial parks are close to major freeways for trucks

Question 14

Proximity to competitors

Answer 14

It would be unwise to establish a new business in a shopping centre that already has several businesses of that type