In recent years, the structure of goods bought has changed considerably-in 1995, 63% of the retail turnover is constituted by retail of food commodities. Such retail structure developed under the circumstances when at the beginning of the 1990s the existing real disposable income of the inhabitants rapidly decreased. After 1995, the proportion of food commodities in the total retail turnover decreased rapidly, and in 2005, it consti¬tuted 31% of the total consumption. Disappearance of small shops is a result of the expansion of supermarkets and the choice of the consumers. The number of visitors to trade centres has grown more than by 20% in 2005 in comparison with 2004. It indicates the growth of the cus-tomers' income, since the psychology of supermarkets is the fol¬lowing: if you arrive to buy goods of prime necessity you will put in your trolley also the goods that you had not planned to buy.