Taobao-user in Hong Kong makes an average of 780 transactions in a year. Photo: Thomas Yau Market research by China’s biggest e-commerce site found men twice as likely as women to be “uncontrollable shopaholics”‚ meaning that although they spend less time SHOPPING ONLINE‚ they tend to buy double the amount of items on each haul. A "field guide" produced by ALIBABA’S Taobao Marketplace also found that at least one million users each spend more than 50‚000 yuan (HK$62‚000) yearly online. That’s an impressive
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“How do we buy toilet paper?” As I increasingly reflect on how individuals make decisions‚ I have found myself pondering about my own personal behaviour and what influences my decisions. It was in one of these occasions‚ that I experienced the subject for this essay. A short stroll to a local supermarket (any supermarket witnesses an enormous number of individual decisions) served both as material for a reflection and as an attempt to understand how consumers’ choices can be influenced. Cognitive
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Online shopping is making things easier in terms of time. The only thing you have to do is to go to the internet shop‚ choose the product you want and buy it. Usually‚ the delivery takes from 2 days to 15 days. Shopping online is comfortable for some people‚ because they can buy food as well as things they need in the household and if they are not able to go out for some reasons. You can buy everything you need through the internet. Another good opportunity in online shopping is that you
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April 15‚ 2013 Composition 2 Online Shopping Is it time for retail stores to change the shopping experience? Well they must change to compete with internet sales. Consumers have increased their demand for self service. What effects will retail stores have do to online shopping? With today’s society more and more people have mobile and tablets that they can do their online shopping either at home or on the go. Retail stores must offer online shopping to compete with everybody else. The price
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Signs of Shopping For me‚ it is the same question every month‚ should I go shopping or pay my insurance? Most of the time it comes down to going shopping until the insurance has to be paid‚ and I am sure I am not the only one that has been in this situation. There are different ways of shopping and each one of these ways are coded systems that construct our own identity. They each encourage consumers to buy products and then group the consumers with one identity. In “The Signs of Shopping”‚ Anne Norton
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Online Shopping In India! Are we ready for it yet? Online shopping has evolved in India after failure of tele-shopping (due to its limited market penetration) and now along with mall culture‚ online shopping is slowly getting acceptance from the Indian society. Let us look at the barriers of online shopping and how online shopping grew‚ thus making India ready for it. Barriers towards online shopping * Internet penetration is low in India‚ thus people were unaware of online shopping and were
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Larry Rivers ENGL 1301 McCourt September 28‚ 2012 Online Shopping VS Traditional Shopping The advent of the Internet has had an impact in our lives in all sorts of ways such as in the manner in which we communicate‚ flirt‚ date‚ and most importantly‚ how we shop. While even in the recent past the thought of whether someone would be able to buy an Armani outfit wearing pajamas while looking after the needs of a couple of toddlers would have seemed like an outlandish idea‚ thanks to the increasing
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More and more people are doing online shopping nowadays. Why? If this trend continues‚ what do you think will be the consequences? Shopping fuels economies worldwide. In our complex lifestyle‚ shopping has been a major activity and that is the reason‚ our streets are lined up with shopping destinations - shops‚ superstores‚ malls and so on. But since few years‚ methods of shopping have been changing‚ thanks to the internet. When the concept of e-shopping was introduced‚ no one anticipated that
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* Define industry and Product segment Shopping centers are purpose built complexes which can contain retail shops‚ restaurant and other eateries‚ service such banks and leisure facilities such as cinemas and bowling alleys. The Australia shopping centre industry comprises companies that build‚ develop and manage shopping centers in Australia. There shopping centre owners derive income from charging tenants‚ such as retail shop owners‚ banks and restaurant‚ rent for the space that they occupy
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Far eastern university Institute of architecture and fine arts Shopping mall Delos trinos‚ Elaine p. Design 531 – ar36 CHAPTER 1 A. Background of the Study A shopping mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers‚ with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to walk from unit to unit‚ along with a parking area – a modern‚ indoor version of the traditional marketplaces. As traders moved into more spacious shops in the early 19th century high
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