Signs of Shopping
Norton in her essay talks about how a mall is sort
of built to drive in customers of all races ages from young adolescents to old
people. Yet she speaks about how in a mall you will mostly see young females
spent an enormous amount of time there. She states how they spend more time at
a mall than money buying things. She also claims that shopping for woman is a
subversive activity. I can see where she can get this from many woman go out
shopping to relieve stress or just go out and spend time with their friends and
get away from their life. Some of her claims about a female shopper may be
right but I don’t think that its only females who go out shopping spend and
blow their money or husband’s money. I think that males also do the same, now
that I think of it every time I go to the mall I always tend to see male
shoppers who are in a group of other
male shoppers and if I’m right they tend to either spend the same amount of
money a female or even more. In my opinion I think it just all depends on the
person and who they are if they like shopping they will spend a big amount of their
time shopping but if they don’t they won’t and that goes for both females and
males. Now a day I see many young shoppers female and male in the mall
shopping.
Science of Shopping
While reading the following article I was blown away
of how technical it can be to drive customers to a certain store when it is
build and opened for the public. They think of every certain angle and scenario
when building a store that wants to sell good. They think of the displays out
in front of the store like what type of things should be in display to get a customer’s
attention. Then they discuss what should be put in the front of the store and
what should go in the back. In a clothing store they usually have shirts in the
front and and dressing rooms in the back so when you go and try something on
you are bound to stop and look at the stuff in the back which is usually the
stuff on sale. While in the grocery store they will put the dairy on one side
the meat in the back and the produce on the other so a costumer won’t get what
they quick and instead go through the whole store and grab more than what they
needed. When I think about it that’s exactly how a grocery store is set up back
home and now I understand why.
I agree with you when you say that you see the same amount of male and females at malls. I too tend to see the same thing when I go to the mall, there are both groups of girls or boys or of both mixed shopping. I also agree with you when you say it depends on the person. Everyone wants to look good, and have nice clothes and look fresh right? However I still think females are more inclined to go to the malls more often than males. Personally, I kind of dislike going to the malls with girls because they usually just look around everywhere. They spend so much time looking and trying on dresses they know they won't buy, and I don't really have much patience for that. I'm pretty sure a lot of dudes would agree with me on that. So, yes probably the amount of females at the mall is the same as males, but females do like to spend much more time there than males.
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