“…In takes the form of new meetings or new interdisciplinary projects revolving around retail trade, but also consumption; a growing interdisciplinary research community has been formed by geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and economists. In ethnology, the works of E. Lallement (2005Lallement ( , 2010 on the Boulevard Barbès in Paris, question retailing and multiculturalism; in economics, those of Philippe Moati (2001) refer to the organization of companies, and the model of society associated with them, while the anthropologist Anne Raulin (2000) addresses the issue of ethnic shopping areas in major cities. Thus, the recent work of the CNFG's Commission on Geography of Commerce, fed by these crosses disciplinary, has widened the questioning of the links between the retail trade, its environment, urban or rural, and its socio-cultural context.…”