... Paper on ecommerce and shopping ECOMMERCE AND SHOPPING ON THE INTERNET ABSTRACT With businesses seeking to seize the momentum of social media and social networking, technology-enabled social commerce has emerged to combine the power of online social networking with shopping. This study examines an emerging area in E-commerce, i.e., social commerce. Extending the online consumer behavior typology, this study categorizes online consumer behaviors into three types: transactional, informational, and social. While traditional E-commerce supports the transactional and informational aspects of online shopping, social commerce fulfils the social aspects of shopping, and potentially enhances the informational aspect as well. This research examines the online shopper as a prospective user of an emerging social commerce platform, the social shopping website, which are sites designed specifically to support social interactions while online consumers shop. The study augments the Technology Acceptance Model with constructs that enhance the specificity of the model to the social shopping application of social commerce. The model was empirically tested and supported. The results provide empirical evidence to support the importance of distinguishing the social aspect of shopping from the information and transactional aspects, as well as the potential advantage to using technology to promote social interactions on E-commerce sites. Implications and future research...
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...Research Paper Shopping Malls have been around for centuries their ancestor were enclosed such as the agora of ancient Greece or the Palais Royal of prerevolutionary Paris, and covered like the Jerusalem bazaar and the famous Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. There are much closer ancestors but as famous as the old ones, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan built in 1867 is well known as it is a covered prolongation of the street with its shops, café and restaurants on two levels. The mall that we know nowadays was introduced by Victor Gruen, who designed the first famous modern mall, the indoor version of the traditional marketplace; it was an enclosed climate-controlled indoor mall in Minnesota in 1956. Since then malls have been around us and are now part of our culture. This paper will argue that malls play significant roles in suburban life. Some people believe that malls are destructive towards our life style. In some ways this is true. Malls do standardize the way of shopping by bringing all the wants and need of our society together but people forget that malls implements their own positive lifestyle. I will highlight three main arguments to demonstrate that malls represent well our culture and play a significant role in the suburban life. First by their design as there are nowadays not only places to shop but are artistic structures, secondly by the way they serve socials functions and finally that they provide a safe environment. Shopping malls are originally designed...
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...Journal of Business Research 54 (2001) 89 – 96 Seeking something different? A model of schema typicality, consumer affect, purchase intentions and perceived shopping value Barry J. Babin*, Laurie Babin Department of Marketing, College of Business, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5091, USA Received 1 May 1999; accepted 1 May 1999 Abstract A study is presented that examines the effect of specific retail elements on deviations from the expected schema, or prototypicality, of a retail store. The results suggest that subtle differences in the store name, the location, and the appearance of its salespeople can evoke contrast in the form of variable typicality scores. A structural model is presented that shows the outcomes of this variance in a retail context involving women’s apparel stores. Low typicality is associated with increased excitement and discomfort, and these emotions affect patronage intentions and perceived shopping value. This finding is counterbalanced by a direct, positive link between typicality and patronage intentions. D 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Schema; Consumer affect; Shopping value Recently, research has demonstrated the key role played by emotional experiences in explaining store choice and consumer– environment interactions and reactions (Bitner, 1992; Baker and Cameron, 1996). Design elements including a store’s employees, prices, lighting, scents, product assortment, background music, and...
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...College of Engineering School of Technology Field Trip Reaction Paper Plantinos, France Richard S. B.S Computer Engineering October 10, 2012 3 Day Field Trip Last September 25-27, 2012, we held a 3-day field trip in Baguio, La Union and Ilocos. On the first day we left Batangas at 12am so we can arrive early in Baguio. It’s a 7-hr sleepy trip but we arrived safely. We checked-in at rajah soliman hotel and ate our breakfast there. We went to our designated rooms to put our heavy bags and we back to bus to visit our first company. The first company that we visited is PAGASA Baguio. They are one of the branches of PAGASA. The speaker discussed about how they monitor the weather and how they measure the strength of the rain. They discussed about the gadgets and machines that they are using to gather information such as barometer, anemometer, etc. After we saw and learned about the things that PAGASA Baguio are doing. We went to the 2nd company. The SITEL. SITEL is calling center in Baguio. Their clients are mostly foreigners and journalist in popular newspapers around the world like The New York Times. The speaker only told and discuss us what are the future that awaits you if you apply to their company. He discussed the qualifications that they want for you to work for SITEL. One of the qualifications is that you have to speak fluently in English. Because it is the second general language that we are using. And the clients you are speaking are mostly foreigners...
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...store design introduction This case study reflects on one of the most significant challenges facing modern-day retailers—online versus high street distribution and the viability of physical outlets. Here we examine the importance of ‘place’ in the marketing mix, covering aspects such as channel strategy, store design objectives, and the critical role that outlets play in communicating with customers. Shopping behaviour has undergone a dramatic evolution over the past decade with many retailers struggling to keep up with the rapidly evolving, contemporary consumer (IBM 2011). Future success will go to those best able to adapt their delivery modes and communication strategies to this modern shopper. The case study looks at the Swedish furniture giant IKEA, which is not only surviving difficult economic times but is rapidly expanding its retail presence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. A cornerstone of IKEA’s success has been an innovative multichannel distribution and communication strategy. n 28 strategic Communication Trends in retail distribution and shopping habits A poor global economic climate has had a massive impact upon consumer spending, resulting in mounting retailer insolvency. Australia is no exception, with downward-spiralling consumer confidence being further eroded by rising interest rates and a looming carbon tax. High street retailing with its significant operating costs has witnessed numerous casualties that include Clive Peeters (electrical)...
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...IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS—PART A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, VOL. 30, NO. 4, JULY 2000 421 What Makes Consumers Buy from Internet? A Longitudinal Study of Online Shopping Moez Limayem, Mohamed Khalifa, and Anissa Frini Abstract—The objective of this study is to investigate the factors affecting online shopping. A model explaining the impact of different factors on online shopping intentions and behavior is developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The model is then tested empirically in a longitudinal study with two surveys. Data collected from 705 consumers indicate that subjective norms, attitude, and beliefs concerning the consequences of online shopping have significant effects on consumers’ intentions to buy online. Behavioral control and intentions significantly influenced online shopping behavior. The results also provide strong support for the positive effects of personal innovativeness on attitude and intentions to shop online. The implications of the findings for theory and practice are discussed. Index Terms—e-commerce, online shopping, TPB. I. INTRODUCTION HE use of the Internet as a shopping and purchasing medium has seen unprecedented growth. Most experts expect the global electronic market to dramatically impact commerce in the twenty first century. Jaffray [1] estimates the total volume of cybersales to reach $201 billion in 2001 and Forrester Research [2] predicts electronic commerce activities to reach $327 billion in 2002...
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...INTRODUCTION: A BAGLESS AUSTIN The future is upon us. Store-goers will soon need to re-evaluate their shopping experience, as Austin will be going bagless beginning March 1, 2013. All consumers use plastic or paper bags on a regular basis, whether while retail shopping or grocery shopping. That’s all about to change, however; the passage of this new law means that those paper and plastic bags are on the way out. Single-use bag use will be diminished, re-usable bags are headed to the forefront, and shoppers will be getting used to a new experience when the head to their local grocery early next year. BACKGROUND According to a city report released this year, “Austinities use 263 million plastic bags a year – that’s more than 330 bags a year for every resident. It costs the city – meaning it costs us the taxpayers – about $850,000 a year to dispose of plastic bags.”(Lisheron, 2012) Consumers in Austin have already started to get a taste of what is to come. Companies, such as Walgreens, have implemented a trial test on stores to gauge the impact of the law being passed. Candace White, an avid shopper at the Slaughter and South Congress Walgreens, was quite confused when the cashier thanked her for coming but did not place her products in a plastic bag. The cashier informed her about Austin going bagless and she was given a free recycled bag. Like most Austinities, she was not informed of the new law which is soon to be enforced. This paper will reinforce the reasons why going...
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...a. From its low price form to its organization culture to the do it yourself approach complete with paper, measuring tapes and pencils offered in-store plus its strong brand image expressive of high value, trendy, low price , current and trendy furniture, the added services it offers daycare, diners, carracks, design advisers, and its strong effort on viability from produce design to removal IKEA is well able to suffice itself of recent market chances the weak state of the United States low cost , demand for ease , viability problems to power its aggressive qualities. To this end IKEA employs a plan of working excellence to effort on competence of processes and operations. OE is a aggressive qualities it translates to spread creation flexibility, improved client reaction, and cost minimization connecting all looks of company controls. OE updates affairs and optimizes performance (www.deloitte.com). OE isn't realized overnight. It is the organized management of protection, condition, setting, dependability and competence which take sun creasing, purposeful labors to build and endure a culture over time (www.chevron.com). IKEA has advance personal qualities long-term relationship with supply chain members /power to offer them fiscal help , local exchange offices legal qualities tax qualities , NPO company ownership, company qualities culture; human resource qualities devoted staff hundred Best business to Work For rating, Ant bureaucracy Weeks; produce...
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...ABSTRACT Considering Social Media’s significance in global communications, importance of Social Media Marketing as a strategic approach, this paper examines whether the internet users are the members of Social Networking, their interest in advertisement on the Social networking sites, their reaction to such ads (attitude towards Social Media), is such ads are useful to them or not, also to examine whether the respondents are experienced the online purchase, to know what products they have purchased through online, through which website they have purchased and their satisfaction of online purchase. At the outset this paper examines the impact of Social Network on the internet users, overall understating of their involvement in the Social Media Marketing which is one of the critical factor for the marketers in formulating strategy for sustainability of the development of their business. KEYWORDS: Social media, Social networking sites, advertisement, online purchase, purchase satisfaction. STRATEGY APPROACH: Social media is an internet based platform which enables its users to generate, share and get feedback for content created in open autonomous, unconstrained manner, and which facilitates social interaction among the individuals and build relationship. Social Networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,Google Plus, Orkut, You Tube etc. are the vehicle for the member of these sites to do their transactions. Social Media Marketing has evolved into a vital...
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...Alibaba Reaction paper Hary Gilles Business 101-002 Victor Hugo (02/26/1802 – 05/22/1885), recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and as also the greatest French poet, once said: “One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. .... Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. “ If there is a quote that can best describe “Alibaba” the company, it is this one previously mentioned. As we will try to demonstrate in this paper, Jack Ma has proven to everybody that he is a great leader, a great motivator, an intelligent marketer, and above all, a great visionary. In this business, he started as an ordinary man by building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US, and in 1995, he founded China’s Yellow pages, widely believed to be China’s first Internet-based company. From 1998 to 1999, he then became the head of an information technology company established by “China Electronic Commerce Center”. In 1999, he founded Alibaba which presently has over 79 million members – hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Businesses using ALIBABA are counted by the millions, from more than 240 countries and territories. In September 2014, the world has witnessed what has become the largest listing in the U.S. history of the stock market. This company has raised $25 billion for its IPO (Initial Public Offering), overtaking VISA’s $19.7 billion 2008 IPO. How did the company...
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...find the method that works best for you and your child. Thus, this paper will aim to recognize the signs that your child is ready to begin this process, various equipment needed, helpful tips for success, and common problems related to this overall process. When to start potty training is different for each child. The age can be as early as ten months to up to thirty-two months old. Girls are usually ready to start around two years old, whereas boys may not be ready until three or even four years old. Signs that your child is ready to begin potty training is when your child tells you when they have to pee or poop, or takes off his/her diaper after peeing or pooping. Following you into the bathroom and flushing the toilet shows that your child is interested in the potty process. Putting on underwear or asking to put on big girl or big boy, or uses words, facial expressions, or they may go into a corner and squat or grunt when they are about to poop are also good indicators that your child is ready to begin potty training. (Sparrow, 2010)....
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...journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1355-5855.htm Hedonic shopping motivations, supermarket attributes, and shopper loyalty in transitional markets Evidence from Vietnam Trang T.M. Nguyen Hedonic shopping motivations 227 Received February 2006 Revised July 2006 Accepted August 2006 Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tho D. Nguyen and Nigel J. Barrett School of Marketing, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Abstract Purpose – This study aims to explore the impact of hedonic shopping motivations (HSM) and supermarket attributes (SMA) on shopper loyalty (SLO). Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 608 supermarket shoppers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was surveyed to test the model. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Findings – It was found that SMA and HSM had positive effects on SLO. It was also found that the impact of hedonic motivations on SLO was different between the younger and older, as well as lower and higher income groups of customers. However, no such difference was found between female and male shoppers. Research limitations/implications – A major limitation of this study was the use of a sample drawn from one transitional market. Cross-national samples will be a direction for further research. Also, the study focuses on attitudinal loyalty. Behavioral loyalty should be taken into account in future research. Practical implications – The findings suggest that the supermarket...
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...Retailing in the 21st Century Manfred Krafft ´ Murali K. Mantrala (Editors) Retailing in the 21st Century Current and Future Trends With 79 Figures and 32 Tables 12 Professor Dr. Manfred Krafft University of Muenster Institute of Marketing Am Stadtgraben 13±15 48143 Muenster Germany mkrafft@uni-muenster.de Professor Murali K. Mantrala, PhD University of Missouri ± Columbia College of Business 438 Cornell Hall Columbia, MO 65211 USA mantralam@missouri.edu ISBN-10 3-540-28399-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-28399-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932316 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com ° Springer Berlin ´ Heidelberg 2006 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not...
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...with everyday low prices, big variety and great value and recognized for offering the most vibrant, comfortable and complete shopping environment. With over than 150 outlets all over Malaysia including Brunei, the needs of systematic system is essential in order to make sure daily business transaction going smooth without interruption. This paper will focus on the Supply Chain Management (SCM) as this is one of main parts in the retail business. From APICS Dictionary it defines SCM as the "design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally”. Previously in the daily business process, all the outlets in Giant used fax as a medium to communicate with the suppliers. At this time request orders is send via fax machine when outlet wants to do the ordering. Here it’s all depends on the paper-based records that each departments in store must be aware of their stock available at the shelf and from the supplier side all request must be refer to paper record they received. Usually here the Department Head (DH) of that department is the one who responsible to make an order everyday when it’s necessary. This process cause numerous of problems such as paper...
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...are heard and the parents touch their child for the very first time. As the child grows, the child communicates with its’ parents with cries, screams, laughter, giggles, cooing, grabbing a finger, touching, listening, and facial expressions. The parent’s reactions to these forms of communication are to get a bottle, burp the child, change the diaper, looking for signs of injury, tickle, smile, laugh, baby talk, and listening to other noises that might cause discomforts to their child. Continuing to grow, the child takes in everything because the learning process never ends. Learning to talk and communicate can teach the child how to effectively speak to their parents in positive and negative tones, correct and incorrect pronunciations, and even through positive and negative behaviors, such as whining because their mother said no. These beginning skills teach the child the behaviors and speaking abilities needed to continue their life in a school, public, or family setting. The skills the child learns throughout grade school, middle school, and high school help the child gain the skills to work in the work force or to continue their college education to better their chances at a higher paying job in their future. In this paper, I will discuss the role that business communication plays in my day-to-day activities at Kmart, how these skills help me manage my daily work activities, and the trends that I have seen working for Kmart compared to my previous workplaces. I will also discuss...
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