Talk:Retail park (United Kingdom)

Britishness
A comment on the lack of worldwide view, this is a very British article. Is the term 'retail park' used outside the UK? My understanding from a little reading is that the closest American varient of the term is 'strip mall', but I'm unaware of the wording used in the rest of the English-speaking world. NeilSenna 01:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Merge discussion

 * Merge. Merge from power centre (retail) per discussion on Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles. "Power centre" is an attempt by the industry to congratulate areas with huge shopping centres. These shopping centers should not be so enthroned in an encyclopedia. Since their name is "official", Wikipedia must use it. But it should not be an article title, per se. Student7 (talk) 17:49, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I'm not convinced that a retail park is unambiguous in the US since the uses here do not follow the UK usage.  In looking at the various definitions for retail park, there does not appear to be a single one in use.  Some even define its stores to be in a shopping mall!  Some definitions include stores at retail parks being as large at 30,000sqft while those for power centers commonly have 100,000sqft.  Not convinced that these are even the same based on the above.  Also retail parks generally say they are on the outskirts of a city while power centers don't usually have that connotation.  Also in looking around, power center does not apparently mean a huge place, just that it includes a small number of very large stores.  Some even list the stores to be category killers.  In addition, based on the comment above and comments in other discussions, this use of retail park may well be UK specific whereas power center being the common industry term has better global recognition. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:56, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment.The above appears to say that the term is not widely used in UK. Neither is it used in the US. Nor Canada. What is left? Australia? NZ? And maybe not there either? Student7 (talk) 22:52, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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