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This study aims to describe the changes of retail environment and retail structure since the Distribution Market Open and the entry of Large-scale Discount Store. The amount of retail is on the increase, but the number of retail stores, especially in small business, falls off since then. At the interval of five years (1996∼2001) the rapid increase of large-scale discount stores have had a profound impacts on the spatial retail structure in the result. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, large-scale discount stores affect kinds of retail type differently, especially at small-sized food retailer. Second, large-scale discount store plays an important role in the change of spatial retail structure. In other words large-scale discount store affects the growth of new downtown market therefore the depressed old downtown market tries to specialize in latest fashion.