“…The market is also hierarchically connected. First of all, it is necessary to note the theory of central places, which formed the basis of the research on the hierarchy of nodal places (Philbrick, 1957;Masai, 1962), areal functional organization (Kirk, 1969), classifications of land uses (Pissourios and Lagopoulos, 2017). The concept of nested sets of hexagonal market areas appeared, in the framework of which the influence of warehouse location on ordering and operating costs was considered (Bogataj, 1996).…”