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We shall regard the market here in its two meanings: (a) as an institution regulating trade within a society, and (b) as a kind of organization of urban space. The market as an obligatory element of the urban structure becomes increasingly stratified in the transitioning society. Even the recently emerging big supermarkets, foreign in origin and whose initial design was to become a form of mass offering (of goods and services), in Bulgaria have created a zone of restricted access and, for those with the means, a place for self-confirmation through demonstration of their purchasing power.