Event details

12. January 2026

Local retail trade

Book recommendations for entrepreneurs and conscious consumers

Local retailers characterize the cityscape with lively city centers and quickly available goods for local customers. The booming online trade is putting many entrepreneurs of local stores under pressure. However, stores offer many advantages that consumers increasingly appreciate: personal advice, the store as a social meeting place or uncomplicated returns and exchange services.

There are numerous ideas to counteract the dying of city centers and make young stores popular for more than just shopping.

We have collected some literature for you. Feel inspired to discover your city and explore the "store around the corner".

Everything tight in the countryside: an interdisciplinary reader on the creative filling of vacancies

Opportunities and challenges for sustainable and circular construction of retail properties

Digitalization and retail: tactics and technologies, practical examples and challenges

Just do it: a practical guide for effective local engagement

Hospitality spaces 2019/20: design concepts for gastronomy, food crafts and communal catering

GASTRO COACHING: GERDIS GASTRO-STORIES

Happy Sales: with motivation and organization to success in sales

Retail economic report

LadenSchluss: Can the store still be saved?

Stores ..., 23/24

Vacancy and urban experience from the perspective of atmospheric research: the example of the pedestrian zone in Bad Bergzabern

Marketing and sales: Foundations for market-oriented corporate management

Modern retail management: Scientific findings and approaches from corporate practice for the future of retailing

Multisensory design of sales environments: Seeing, hearing, smelling

Sustainable concepts in stationary retail: An analysis of shopfitting

New urban ecology in a changing climate: developing the green urban environment for the future

Omnichannel in retail: basics, strategies and best practices for successful implementation

Online retail and space: a geographical perspective on retail

Patient inner city: therapy, monument preservation

Restaurant 2.0: strategies, tips and tricks for the gastronomy of tomorrow

Slow urban planning: making Tribsees' future

Urban production: new perspectives for the manufacturing industry in the city?

How to make a profit in the restaurant business: Handbook for more guests, more turnover and lower costs

Economic geography of Germany

The book exhibition is located in the HSB Zittau.