Supercenter combine a full line of groceries and general merchandise with a wide range of services, including pharmacy, dry cleaning, portrait studios, photo finishing, hair salons, optical shops and restaurants all in one locations. These superstores make it more difficult for the local stores as there are more services under one roof and the products are most likely cheaper at the superstores. Marketing of superstores focus on the mobility of the population and all that comes with that, for example traffic conditions and infrastructure. What the working population looks like in terms of demographics and psychographics, what the living and storage spaces look like and of course the size of the city, the larger the city is, the more companies and alternatives are available. Superstores use price as an effective marketing mechanism in order to attract customers.…
A disadvantage could be that these shops have a limited number of customers at the store in same time. These are small shops, which doesn’t have a large space and can’t afford lots of customers. Therefore, if there are lots of customers and there is no space for more customers, these customers who can’t enter at the shop (because of the space) will go to another shop, which will lead to decrease in the customer base and profits of the local shop.…
Customers may no longer be able to buy the same quality of goods and services if they fail to meet their aims and objectives this will be a big downfall in the business, they could lose customers which will make the business very unsuccessful.…
Shopping mall is a classic icon of American culture. Such big shopping center is specifically designed to meat the needs of today’s customer. We like how convenient it is to shop, eat and be entertained all in one place. It is a perfect place to spend an afternoon with your family or if you’re a teen hang out with your friends. But we might just be underestimating the real power such places have over our society. There are plenty of subtle messages being sent to us and those messages in fact play a huge role in the socialization process and shaping of our society as a whole.…
Decentralisation is the process in which the population, retail and industry moves from urban CBD’s to the outer city. An out of town shopping centre is a group of shops and facilities that are located away from a town’s CBD. This movement will have positive and negative impacts on both the urban area and the outer city, where the out of town centres are built. The decentralisation of retailing and other services is happening because In order to sell goods, shops need to be located where people can get to them easily and its seen as easier to go to an out of town shopping centre than go to the CBD of a city.…
There are a number of reasons for the growth in out of town retailing. Firstly, increased car ownership has meant that many more people drive to the shops. Out of town retail complexes are often located close to a motorway, so they are easy to access, and they usually have fewer problems with congestion than town centres. Also, the price of parking in town and city centres is increasing, whereas parking in out of town retail complexes is usually free, which encourages people to shop there. Moving on from this, the use of cars and home freezers also means people can do one weekly shop as opposed to only buying what they can carry home and use immediately. This means people are more likely to shop at out of town retail complexes and supermarkets, where they can park outside and get everything they need under one roof. In addition to this, increased road building, particularly of motorways and bypasses, makes out of town shopping centres easy to access and attracts customers from further away because driving on these roads reduces travel times and expenses. Furthermore, it’s not just shops that have moved to out of town retail parks. Many large retail centres also offer services such as bowling, cinemas and restaurants. This helps to attract more customers by making a trip to a shopping centre more of a family activity. Finally, it is a lot cheaper to build retail…
Decentralisation is the process in which the population, retail and industry moves from urban CBD’s to the outer city. An out of town shopping centre is a group of shops and facilities that are located away from a town’s CBD. This movement will have positive and negative impacts on both the urban area and the outer city, where the out of town centres are built. The decentralisation of retailing and other services is happening because In order to sell goods, shops need to be located where people can get to them easily and its seen as easier to go to an out of town shopping centre than go to the CBD of a city.…
anyone lived in a pretty how town was written by e. e. cummings. e. e. cummings is writing about life in a small town and also about happiness. I look at this poem as a form of unconscious delight, which may seem different to others, but it makes me happy. everyone in the small town sits back and does absolutely nothing. the poem is actually about a man named anyone and a Woman named noone. anyone found the love of his life, noone. every part of anyone's life affected her life in some way. one day anyone died and nobody died soon after. the two of them were buried side by side, which showed how strong their love was. no body was supposed to know of their love for each other, but every one did because it was a small town. i believe that cummings was trying to talk about finding true happiness. anyone and nobody were truly happy together, even though they shouldn't have been (according to the town). even after the two of them die, they find happiness together in the after life as they dream together. cummings shows how people can find true happiness, even if it is in a small town.…
Some, if not most of the American society today is plagued with greed and selfishness. To illustrate,…
We covet, growing more selfish and superficial as being more important than making a practical difference in our or anyone else’s lives. The number of followers on social media we have and the importance of new expensive gadgets cover being able to afford less and help as a way to distract us from looking at our own lives and realize our unimportant we really are as only one person. Our distractions we take stop us from taking the more valuable hard road, keep us in an “all for one” mentality, and stop us from working as a community with each other and the earth around…
We live in a corrupted, greedy, and competitive world that most people strive for the big prize at the end of the tunnel, money. Yet there are some people who shine through and show their responsibilities of other people, and try their best to care for everyone they can to the best of their ability. The human race has always been complexed with people changing how the world functions daily, each person on this world has a different outtake on how things should be ran. As we grow together though and form in groups with others you begin to see different results of what we can accomplish together.…
I could not help but to think that the purpose of a shopping mall was for everyone to have one convenient place to buy anything they desired. But, the viewpoints expressed though "Community through Exclusion and Illusion" by George Lewis and "Shopping for American Culture," by James J. Farrell, have led me to believe that the shopping mall also serves as a community center. Another article which captured my attention was Ira Zepp's, "The Shopping Mall as Sacred Place." They each express their ideas of how the shopping mall is not just a place to shop due to it's constantly availability, which has created an ideal environment for social interaction for people of all ages. Farrell…
Malls have negative influences on American teenagers because malls preprogram kids to all have the same set of values, which is to be consumers. Teenagers have less opportunity to think what they kind of life style they want to have because they are automatically indoctrinated to “shop” since they are small. According to Kowinski’s article, malls give people a sense that the goal of life is all about making money and spending it on products. However, consuming should not be the main goal of life. Malls restrain the way people think, so kids today are not able to have critical thinking about their lives. For example, my cousin, Joyce, grew up in California. When she was little, my aunt, Joyce’s mom, would usually drop her in the mall due to her work. Because my aunt was unable to take care of my cousin, she let my cousin spend her own time in the mall sometimes after school. Everytime, before my aunt dropped off Joyce at the mall, she would always give her some money so she could buy food or whatever she wanted. Gradually, my cousin got used to the consuming style, and she thought the mall was part of her life. Malls preprogrammed her to be a consumer in the future. Now, whenever my cousin goes to malls, she feels the necessity to spend money. My cousin’s mind has been influenced by malls since she was young, so she can not think independently now. She thinks mall is the place where she has to spend money. Malls are bad to American kids because they promotes kids to become consumers and allows kids to have less chance to think on their own ways.…
Another change that would need to be made is changing store configurations, referred to as zonal merchandising. This is where you group together stores that serve the same basic need and draw the same basic shoppers. This will help those shoppers that come to the mall to purchase a specific product. They then will see the other stores that sell similar products to what they are…
We should not forget another popular saying: “Treat other people in the way you want to be treated by them”. People should not give up their moral principles in order to achieve material prosperity. They should not view others as wallets with money, but be polite, helpful and understanding in spite of our prosperity.…