Why We Buy

ISBN-13: 9781416595243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str.

Paco Underhill

Opis

Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture--full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail such as Internet behemoths Amazon and iTunes as well as the globalization of retail in the world's emerging markets.

This enlightening edition includes new information on:

-The latest trends in online retail--what retailers are doing right and what they're doing wrong--and how nearly every Internet retailer from iTunes to Amazon can drastically improve how it serves its customers.

-A guided tour of the most innovative stores, malls and retail environments around the world--almost all of which are springing up in countries where prosperity is new. An enormous indoor ski slope attracts shoppers to a mall in Dubai; an uber-luxurious Sao Paolo department store provides its customers with personal shoppers; a mall in South Africa has a wave pool for surfing.

The new Why We Buy is an essential guide that offers advice on how to keep your changing customers and entice new and eager ones.

Recenzje

"At last, here is a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves." -- The New York Times

Spis treści

CONTENTS
I
INSTEAD OF SAMOA, STORES: THE SCIENCE OF SHOPPING
1. A Science Is Born
2. What Retailers Don't Know
II
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN: THE MECHANICS OF SHOPPING
3. The Twilight Zone
4. You Need Hands
5. How to Read a Sign
6. Shoppers Move Like People
7. Dynamic
III
MEN ARE FROM SEARS HARDWARE, WOMEN ARE FROM BLOOMINGDALE'S: THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF SHOPPING
8. Shop Like a Man
9. What Women Want
10. If You Can Read This You're Too Young
11. Kids
IV
SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, BUY ME: THE DYNAMICS OF SHOPPING
12. The Sensual Shopper
13. The Big Three
14. Time, Real and Perceived
15. Cash/Wrap Blues
16. Magic Acts
17. In Cyberspace, No One Can Hear You Shop
18. The Self-Exam
19. Final Thoughts
Acknowledgments
Index

O autorze

Paco Underhill was the founder of Envirosell, Inc., a global research and consulting firm. His clients include more than a third of the Fortune 100 list, and he has worked on supermarket, convenience store, food, beverage, and restaurant issues in fifty countries. He is the bestselling author of Why We Buy, The Call of the Mall, What Women Want, and his newest book, How We Eat. He has also written articles for or been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, and more. Paco divides his time between New York City and Madison, Connecticut.