Childhood-a Global Journal of Child Research, 2000
This article considers the importance of the shopping mall to a group of young people living in t... more This article considers the importance of the shopping mall to a group of young people living in the East Midlands of the UK. It shows that for many young people the mall provides a convenient place for hanging out. Yet their occupancy of this setting is not unproblematic. Many adults, for example, perceive the public and visible presence of young
The primary objective of this study was to employ a value-attitude-behavior model in order to inv... more The primary objective of this study was to employ a value-attitude-behavior model in order to investigate the role personal values play in the patronage of regional shopping malls. A secondary objective was to examine whether one's ethnic group membership and ethnic identification serve as important factors that influence personal values as well as attitudes and patronage behavior in the context of regional shopping malls. The sample of regional mall shoppers consisted of white and Hispanic consumers residing in ten metropolitan cities of the southwest. Structural equation modeling indicated that both self-actualizing and social affiliation personal values were positively related to a favorable attitude toward regional shopping malls, and that the social affiliation value played a greater role in influencing attitude than did the self-actualizing value. Individual attitudes toward shopping malls, in turn, were a direct predictor of mall shopping behavior and mediated the relationship between personal values and attitudes. The findings indicate that, independent of ethnic group membership, both self-actualizing and social affiliation values can be used effectively to position regional malls in such a way as to reinforce these views and to provide a strong means for shoppers to satisfy these needs.
116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung&am... more 116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung's celebrated paper on internalizing externalities between apple growers and traditional bee-keepers.2 In this article, we use store rent data to estimate the scale of de-mand ...
We have implemented and tested a PDA-based system that gives a shopper directions through a shopp... more We have implemented and tested a PDA-based system that gives a shopper directions through a shopping mall on the basis of (a) the types of products that the shopper has expressed an interest in, (b) the shopper’s current location, and (c) the purchases that the shopper has made so far. The system uses decision-theoretic planning to compute a policy that optimizes the expected utility of a shopper’s walk through the shopping mall, taking into account uncertainty about (a) whether the shopper will actually find a suitable product in a given location and (b) the time required for each purchase. To assess the acceptability of this approach to potential users, on two floors of a building we constructed a mock-up of a shopping mall with 15 stores. Each of 20 subjects in our study shopped twice in the mall, once using our system and once using a paper map. The subjects completed their tasks significantly more effectively using the PDA-based shopping guide, and they showed a clear preference for it. They also yielded numerous specific ideas about the conditions under which the guide will be useful and about ways of increasing its usability.
... It is unclear how critical a role browsers play in the financial success of specialty stores ... more ... It is unclear how critical a role browsers play in the financial success of specialty stores and, ultimately, the center itself. ... Related motives for shopping at malls might include the gathering of information in advance of future purchasing, vicarious experience (window-shopping ...
Although large enclosed shopping malls represent significant institutions in modem Western cultur... more Although large enclosed shopping malls represent significant institutions in modem Western culture, consumers' activities within malls have been surprisingly underresearched. In the present study, consumers' interrelationships with malls as consumption sites are explored using the concept of a habitat drawn from the ecological sciences. An empirical study of consumer activity within multiple mall habitats is then discussed. Specifically, this research explores differences in mall habitat activity patterns and identifies mall related shopping orientations that are useful in explaining these differences.
... References Alexander, N. (1988a), "Contemporary Perspectives in Retail Development"... more ... References Alexander, N. (1988a), "Contemporary Perspectives in Retail Development", Service Industries Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 77-90. Alexander, N. (1988b), "Marketing the UK's Retail Revolution Post 1992", Quarterly Review of Marketing, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. ...
Previous tests by economists relating performance variables, such as price-cost margins, to marke... more Previous tests by economists relating performance variables, such as price-cost margins, to market structural variables (eg concentration) have been primarily for inter-industry analysis. Collins and Preston (1966, 1968) developed and used price-cost margins as a ...
... terms BRI and BR2 are dummies for two kinds of brand-name drugs: those that face competition ... more ... terms BRI and BR2 are dummies for two kinds of brand-name drugs: those that face competition from generic ... generics are available may be particularly insensitive to price (and by extension not inclined to price-shop), and this may be reflected in the distribution of prices. ...
Childhood-a Global Journal of Child Research, 2000
This article considers the importance of the shopping mall to a group of young people living in t... more This article considers the importance of the shopping mall to a group of young people living in the East Midlands of the UK. It shows that for many young people the mall provides a convenient place for hanging out. Yet their occupancy of this setting is not unproblematic. Many adults, for example, perceive the public and visible presence of young
The primary objective of this study was to employ a value-attitude-behavior model in order to inv... more The primary objective of this study was to employ a value-attitude-behavior model in order to investigate the role personal values play in the patronage of regional shopping malls. A secondary objective was to examine whether one's ethnic group membership and ethnic identification serve as important factors that influence personal values as well as attitudes and patronage behavior in the context of regional shopping malls. The sample of regional mall shoppers consisted of white and Hispanic consumers residing in ten metropolitan cities of the southwest. Structural equation modeling indicated that both self-actualizing and social affiliation personal values were positively related to a favorable attitude toward regional shopping malls, and that the social affiliation value played a greater role in influencing attitude than did the self-actualizing value. Individual attitudes toward shopping malls, in turn, were a direct predictor of mall shopping behavior and mediated the relationship between personal values and attitudes. The findings indicate that, independent of ethnic group membership, both self-actualizing and social affiliation values can be used effectively to position regional malls in such a way as to reinforce these views and to provide a strong means for shoppers to satisfy these needs.
116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung&am... more 116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung's celebrated paper on internalizing externalities between apple growers and traditional bee-keepers.2 In this article, we use store rent data to estimate the scale of de-mand ...
We have implemented and tested a PDA-based system that gives a shopper directions through a shopp... more We have implemented and tested a PDA-based system that gives a shopper directions through a shopping mall on the basis of (a) the types of products that the shopper has expressed an interest in, (b) the shopper’s current location, and (c) the purchases that the shopper has made so far. The system uses decision-theoretic planning to compute a policy that optimizes the expected utility of a shopper’s walk through the shopping mall, taking into account uncertainty about (a) whether the shopper will actually find a suitable product in a given location and (b) the time required for each purchase. To assess the acceptability of this approach to potential users, on two floors of a building we constructed a mock-up of a shopping mall with 15 stores. Each of 20 subjects in our study shopped twice in the mall, once using our system and once using a paper map. The subjects completed their tasks significantly more effectively using the PDA-based shopping guide, and they showed a clear preference for it. They also yielded numerous specific ideas about the conditions under which the guide will be useful and about ways of increasing its usability.
... It is unclear how critical a role browsers play in the financial success of specialty stores ... more ... It is unclear how critical a role browsers play in the financial success of specialty stores and, ultimately, the center itself. ... Related motives for shopping at malls might include the gathering of information in advance of future purchasing, vicarious experience (window-shopping ...
Although large enclosed shopping malls represent significant institutions in modem Western cultur... more Although large enclosed shopping malls represent significant institutions in modem Western culture, consumers' activities within malls have been surprisingly underresearched. In the present study, consumers' interrelationships with malls as consumption sites are explored using the concept of a habitat drawn from the ecological sciences. An empirical study of consumer activity within multiple mall habitats is then discussed. Specifically, this research explores differences in mall habitat activity patterns and identifies mall related shopping orientations that are useful in explaining these differences.
... References Alexander, N. (1988a), "Contemporary Perspectives in Retail Development"... more ... References Alexander, N. (1988a), "Contemporary Perspectives in Retail Development", Service Industries Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 77-90. Alexander, N. (1988b), "Marketing the UK's Retail Revolution Post 1992", Quarterly Review of Marketing, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. ...
Previous tests by economists relating performance variables, such as price-cost margins, to marke... more Previous tests by economists relating performance variables, such as price-cost margins, to market structural variables (eg concentration) have been primarily for inter-industry analysis. Collins and Preston (1966, 1968) developed and used price-cost margins as a ...
... terms BRI and BR2 are dummies for two kinds of brand-name drugs: those that face competition ... more ... terms BRI and BR2 are dummies for two kinds of brand-name drugs: those that face competition from generic ... generics are available may be particularly insensitive to price (and by extension not inclined to price-shop), and this may be reflected in the distribution of prices. ...
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