Retail park

A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries.

They form a key aspect of European retail geographies, alongside indoor shopping centres, standalone stores like hypermarkets and more traditional high streets.

For example, in the UK, Marks and Spencer and Next have closed or downsized many high streets stores and moved them to retail parks.

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A shopping centre that in Europe is considered a retail park might fall into one of several categories in North American industry terms:[12]