Retail vehicle
Vehicle from which retail goods are sold
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Through Retail and Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
In the First Czechoslovak Republic there were mobile sellers, modified from tram cars, of tram tickets in Prague and Brno.
In Socialist Czechoslovakia, a major operator of mobile shops was the Jednota cooperative. 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.
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Germany
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.
Soviet Union and post-Soviet states
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 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, and avtolavka LuAZ-3720 (ЛуAЗ-3720)
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
- Russian: автолавка, romanized: avtolavka etymology: avtomobil + лавка (smal shop).
- Russian: автомагазин, romanized: avtomagazin, lit. 'mobile shop'
- Russian: передвижной киоск, romanized: peredvizhnoy kiosk, lit. 'mobile kiosk'
Estonia
- Estonian: rändkauplus, lit. 'mobile shop]'; synonyms: rändpood, kauplusauto, poebuss, autokauplus, also "avtolavka", "lahvka" - colloquial, borrowed from Russian, mixed etymology: lavkabuss
A mobile shop is defined as "a vehicle adapted as a mobile point of sale, mainly selling food and basic necessities".
In the Soviet Estonia avtolavkas were managed by the unified Estonian Republican Union of Consumer Cooperatives (now Coop Eesti).
In 2015, a family-owned business Lasteriided Ratastel (literally "Children's clothes on wheels") started operating mobile shop for children's clothing and shoes.
The Consumers' Association of the island of Hiiumaa operated a retail vehicle purchased in Finland since 1994. In 2017 a new retail vehicle will be operated by Hiiumaa division of Selver brand.
Finland
- 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. In 2014 there were about 30 of them.In 2018, only six mobile shops left. Five of them operate in the rural areas of Eastern Finland and one in the Kankaanpää region. 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
In 2014, the Estonian Road Museum received a Finnish retail vehicle which was also operated by Estonian business Tilsico OÜ for five years.
Switzerland
- 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.
- Media related to Migros vehicles at Wikimedia Commons