Retail vehicle
Mobile shops, sales vans, shopping vans, retail vehicles, etc. are motor vehicles accommodated for small retail sales of various kind. The common types are specializing in food delivery and catering (food trucks, ice cream vans, milk floats), but in some places a more general retail is known, typically to deliver goods to remote places with difficult access to regular shops.
Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
[edit]In the First Czechoslovak Republic there were mobile sellers, modified from tram cars, of tram tickets in Prague and Brno.[1][2]
In Socialist Czechoslovakia, a major operator of mobile shops was the Jednota cooperative.[3] Mobile shops operated in remote villages, as well as in seasonal recreational sites without permanent infrastructure. At the heyday, there were hundreds of mobile shops. After 1989 the operations of Jednota mobile shops nearly ceased, for various reasons, but they still operate in some areas. Under the influence of other countries food trucks started operating, albeit in other way around: brinning fresh farm produce into the sities.[4]
Mobile ticket office, Prague 1928![Mobile shop of the cooperative Jednota [cs]](/host-https-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Mr%C3%A1kot%C3%ADn%2C_Dobr%C3%A1_Voda%2C_poj%C3%ADzdn%C3%A1_prodejna_Karosa_B_732_%2801%29.jpg/120px-Mr%C3%A1kot%C3%ADn%2C_Dobr%C3%A1_Voda%2C_poj%C3%ADzdn%C3%A1_prodejna_Karosa_B_732_%2801%29.jpg)
Mobile shop of the cooperative Jednota
Milk float, Prague, 2011
Mobile bakery vendor
![Mobile shop of the cooperative Jednota [cs]](/host-https-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mr%C3%A1kot%C3%ADn,_Dobr%C3%A1_Voda,_poj%C3%ADzdn%C3%A1_prodejna_Karosa_B_732_(01).jpg)
Media related to Retail vehicles in the Czech Republic at Wikimedia Commons
Germany
[edit]In East Germany the Konsum cooperative network operated sales vans in remote rural areas with difficult access to industrial goods. Their major state-owned competitor, Handelsorganisation operated Verkaufswagen as well.
Temporary sales area for the sales van[a]
A sales van of Leipzig Handelsorganisation, 1951
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 "Fliegende Verkaufsstelle" ( "Mobile Sales Outlet"), a sales van with a trailer of Gotha Konsum by the VEB Gothania rubber factory in the remote Hörselgau village, 1956. The pre-packed shelves are moved from the sales van to a sales area, with a good range of industrial goods. Since the arrival of the van was scheduled 88 days in advance, there was always a large crowd awaiting.[5]
Soviet Union and post-Soviet states
[edit]The Lutsk Automobile Plant (LuAZ) in the Soviet Union (now in Ukraine) manufactured three types of retail vehicles: trailer shop LuMZ-825 прицеп-лавка ЛуМЗ-825[6] avtolavka LuMZ-827 автолавка ЛуМЗ-827 based on the chassis of GAZ-51A, with a single access to the body from the back; it can also pull the trailer LuMZ-825,[7] and avtolavka LuAZ-3720 (ЛуAЗ-3720)[citation needed]
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
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Estonia
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- Estonian: rändkauplus, lit. 'mobile shop]'; synonyms: rändpood, kauplusauto, poebuss, autokauplus, also "avtolavka", "lahvka" - colloquial, borrowed from Russian, mixed etymology: lavkabuss[8]
A mobile shop is defined as "a vehicle adapted as a mobile point of sale, mainly selling food and basic necessities".[8]
In the Soviet Estonia avtolavkas were managed by the unified Estonian Republican Union of Consumer Cooperatives (now Coop Eesti).[9]
In 2015, a family-owned business Lasteriided Ratastel (literally "Children's clothes on wheels") started operating mobile shop for children's clothing and shoes.[10]
The Consumers' Association of the island of Hiiumaa operated a retail vehicle purchased in Finland since 1994.[11] In 2017 a new retail vehicle will be operated by Hiiumaa division of Selver brand.[12]
Finland
[edit]- Finnish: myymäläauto, kauppa-auto
The first mobile shops were introduced by the Elanto cooperative in early 1930s. It the 1950s, at their peak time, there were about 1,200 shop vans. Gradually their numbers dwindled.[13] In 2014 there were about 30 of them.[14]In 2018, only six mobile shops left. Five of them operate in the rural areas of Eastern Finland and one in the Kankaanpää region.[15] A detailed study of Finnish mobile shops may be found in Jussi Lehtonen's Ph.D. thesis Scenarios of services in the countryside: shops, libraries, banks and post offices of the past, present and future[16]
In 2014, the Estonian Road Museum received a Finnish retail vehicle which was also operated by Estonian business Tilsico OÜ for five years.[17]
![Elanto [fi] cooperative mobile shop, 1930s](/host-https-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Kulutusosuuskuntien_Keskusliiton_kokoelma_D1974_8998_%2830824951051%29.jpg/120px-Kulutusosuuskuntien_Keskusliiton_kokoelma_D1974_8998_%2830824951051%29.jpg)
Elanto cooperative mobile shop, 1930s
Retail vehicle of the regional cooprative in Karstula, 1970
Jounin Kauppa mobile shop, 2016
Inside a A Mukkalan Kauppa Oy mobile shop, 2021
![Elanto [fi] cooperative mobile shop, 1930s](/host-https-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kulutusosuuskuntien_Keskusliiton_kokoelma_D1974_8998_(30824951051).jpg)
Switzerland
[edit]- French: Camions magasin, lit. 'truck shop, van shop'
- German: Verkaufswagen, lit. 'Retail vehicle, sales van'
The Migros retail company was founded in 1925 with the idea of truck delivery (based on Ford Model T trucks) of six basic products at low prices to householders who did not have ready access to markets of any kind. In 1960s, their operations peaked, with 144 trucks in operation. The operations gradually declined, especially in 1990s, due to the competition from the chain stores and the improved customers' mobility.[18][19]
A Migros Ford Model TT from 1926
A Migros sales vehicle from 1956
A Migros Magirus-Deutz-based sales vehicles, 1971
A Migros sales van
Inside a Migros sales van
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Media related to Migros vehicles at Wikimedia Commons
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Z brněnské elektrické dráhy", Moravský deník, 20 January 1937 (limited access)
- ↑ An article in Pestrý týden, 9 June, 1928, (limited access)
- ↑ Archiv ČT24 | Prodejny a prodejci | Část: Pojízdné prodejny olomoucké Jednoty (1982)
- ↑ Vzestup a pád pojízdných prodejen. Znovu se vrací?, Czech Radio
- ↑ Bundesarchiv Bild 183-35765-0001
- ↑ Луцкий автомобильный завод (ЛуАЗ) | ЛуМЗ-825
- ↑ Луцкий автомобильный завод (ЛуАЗ) | ЛуМЗ-827
- 1 2 rändpood, Institute of the Estonian Language
- ↑ Эстонская потребкооперация: От советского ЭРСПО до европейского Coop, 8 February 2024Stena
- ↑ Lastekaupadele loodi liikuv pood
- ↑ Kollane rändpood sai aastaseks
- ↑ Uus rändpood läheb esimesele ringile
- ↑ Myymäläauton kuljettaja saattoi jopa ruokkia koiran ["The shop van driver might even feed the dog"], YLE Turku, 6 May, 2010
- ↑ Kauppa-auto kurvasi kylille, Viikkoset, February 16, 2014
- ↑ Henrietta Nyberg, on koko Suomessa enää kuusi – ”Hautausmaa on suurin kilpailijamme”
- ↑ Jussi Lehtonen, Skenaarioita maaseudun palveluista. Kaupat, kirjastot, pankit ja postit historiasta tulevaisuuksiin, 2016
- ↑ Maanteemuuseumis avab uksed kauplusbuss
- ↑ (in French) Xavier Filliez, Les camions-magasins, à l'origine de l'aventure Migros
- ↑ Les cinq premiers camions-magasins, from the timeline of Migros
