Objects of Desire: Consumer Behaviour in Shopping Centre Choices

✍ Scribed by Charles Dennis (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Background....Pages 9-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Research Questions, Methodology and Questionnaire Design for Part II....Pages 25-37
Why Do People Shop Where They Do? The Attributes of Shopping Centres that Determine Where Consumers Choose to Shop....Pages 38-50
The Shopping Centre as a Brand....Pages 51-69
The Shopping Centre as an Object of Desire: Attraction and Distance In Shopping Centre Choice....Pages 70-87
Central Place Practice: Shopping Centre Attractiveness Measures, the ‘Break Point’, Catchment Boundaries and the UK Retail Hierarchy....Pages 88-116
Marketing Segmentation for Shopping Centres....Pages 117-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Shoppers’ Motivations in Choices of Shopping Centres....Pages 145-168
An Environmental Psychology Approach to Consumers’ Choices of Shopping Centres....Pages 169-184
An Evolutionary Psychology Approach to Understanding the ‘Why’ of Shopping Behaviour: the Savannah Hypothesis of Shopping....Pages 185-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Shoppers’ Motivations for E-shopping....Pages 197-221
E-shopping Compared with Shopping Centres....Pages 222-240
Conclusions and Implications....Pages 241-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-271

✦ Subjects

Medical Sociology; Industries