Saturday, September 19, 2009

WHAT IS SHOPPING & SHOPPING TIPS

Shopping
Shopping is an activity of examining of products or goods or services from retailers with the intent to purchase at that time. Shopping is an activity of selection and purchase the perfect things at perfect price. In some contexts it is considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one.
Shopping is considered a recreational and diversional activity in which one visits a variety of stores in search of a suitable product to purchase. By Shopping people show their happiness and also solve their purpose as they get the things they wanted. So, shopping is the internal satisfaction and depicts that you are in happy mood and enjoying shopping.
Shopping Hubs
Shopping hubs, or the shopping centers, are collection of stores; that is a grouping of several businesses.

According to wikipedia : There have been three major phases in the shopping / trading world in the last 100 years. In a way, these link up into a full circle.

1. Customers would be served by the shopkeeper, who would retrieve all the good on their shopping list. Shops would often deliver the goods to the customers' homes.

2. Customers have to select goods, retrieve them off the shelves using self service, and even pack their own goods. Customers deliver their own goods.

3. Customers select goods via the internet. The goods are delivered to their homes as in phase one!

Shopping seasons
In every Country there comes a seasons of festivals and brings a feeling of shopping with chearful state of mind, so everyone in this joyful season like to shopping more and more as they feel happyness and joy in this season. Shopping seasons are periods where a burst of spending occurs with happiness - typically near holidays in the major countries like US, Uk, Australia, Europe & al the major countries. where Christmas shopping is the biggest shopping spending season. Some famous target dates are Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The main phase of shopping is Pricing and negotiation :
The pricing technique used by most retailers is cost-plus pricing. This involves adding a markup amount (or percentage) to the retailers cost. Another common technique is manufacturers suggested list pricing. This simply involves charging the amount suggested by the manufacturer and usually printed on the product by the manufacturer.
In Western countries, retail prices are often so-called psychological prices or odd prices: a little less than a round number, e.g. $ 6.95. In Chinese societies, prices are generally either a round number or sometimes some lucky number. This creates price points.
Price discrimination can lead to a bargaining situation often called haggling, a negotiation about the price. Economists see this as determining how the transaction's total surplus will be divided into consumer and producer surplus. Neither party has a clear advantage, because the threat of no sale exists, whence the surplus vanishes for both.

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