Introduction:
Hyperstar is a shopping mall located in Lahore. It was opened up in 2009 in Fotress Stadium Lahore. It is one of the biggest grocery stores in Lahore. Hyperstar has always tried it best to provide best services to their valued customer. Its branches are also opened up in Islamabad and Karachi. It is a one shop shopping designation for everyone where we can get almost everything under one roof. It is one of the best shopping mall in Pakistan.
Functional-structuralism theory:
Living an urban live in overcrowded cities like Lahore had made our lives so busy and every citizen has to face number of problems in his/her daily life. The living pattern of people has changed over the past 15-20 years. With this change, buying pattern of
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So people prefer to go these grocery stores where they can find different types of things under one roof. Many researchers are also interested in finding out why people shop from these malls. (McDonald, 1993) These studies are important in knowing the buying pattern of the consumers (Darden & Reynolds, 1971) . Hyperstar is one of the biggest and most successful stores in Pakistan especially in Lahore. Hyperstar is store which provides different facilities for people. I selected Hyperstar because it impacts our daily lives and shopping pattern, even if we do or do not shop there. Hyperstar is the protocol of how much we pay for an item and how much we should pay. There are food items, grocery store, cosmetics, clothing department, electronics, furniture, crockery, coffee shop and many others things arranged or placed in two floors. The functions of Hyperstar are same in our individual lives in same class. Its functions are different for different classes. Hyperstar have manifest and latent functions both. The manifest function is that to provide
Shopping can and should be about more than just price or convenience. Moreover, for high street and main street retailer, concentrating only on price means losing the opportunity to build genuine brand loyalty or give shoppers a reason to enjoy their visit.
In a day of, “I want it now and I’m willing to pay for it,” a shopping center has to offer a variety of stores, and also have several options. The shoe shopper will go to the place with 5 shoe stores before they go to the place with only 1. They may not realize that of the 5 available shoe stores; only 1 is in their price range, but satisfying a wider variety of consumers will help the mall broaden the shopper’s experience. But it is important to remember that shoppers are price sensitive, so not only do you need a variety of stores offering a variety of products, but you also need to be able to provide a variety of price points so you don’t limit your shopper demographics.
The point of sale assessment depends on the consumer’s perceived shopping motives. Shopping motivation represents a fairly mature reach of research. Many retailers consider smart shopping comprises high sensitivity on process. Smart shoppers are always keen on getting a discount. Shopping on Black Friday is the consumer’s motivation. It gives them the excitement of the game. (look for competitive) Its part of the mystique, shoppers can celebrate their ability to get the best deals.
A distinguished structure that is present in today’s retail environment is a shopping centre. A shopping centre is where multiple stores presenting different merchandisers are formed under a building and allocated through a leasing agency. Shopping centers are aimed towards middle income suburban residents who are mobile. A shopping centre has controlled walkways which enable consumers to walk from store to store. Plenty of effort is put into developing the design of a shopping centre, thus increasing the amount of time people spend shopping. The
| Many consumers will go to other places like Wal-Mart to shop, and may even use the internet to shop over traditional stores. This reality and the fact that the product is partly unknown can present a
The tenant structure of the shopping center is an important factor in ensuring rent is adequate to make the project viable. The fact that Philipp conceded the hypermarket could have a negative effect on the overriding success of the project. ECE strategy typically relied on these large self-service retail stores. Hypermarkets are very desirable to customers since the warehouse structure enable the stores to offer a wide variety of products (i.e. fresh food, beverages, home supplies, electronics, clothing, car accessories, garden furniture etc.) at discounted prices. This lack of a hypermarket must be offset by assurance and
Structural Functionalism sociological perspective sees a human society as a system. In a system, many interconnected parts work together with a common objective. In a society, all individuals have specific roles. In addition, things like beliefs, rituals, values, rules, morals and ethics all determine the specific behavior expected of all members in a community. The interactions between individuals depend on the role of the individuals and the collective social values and rules in the society.
With the vast and fast expansion and constructions of commercial buildings and infrastructures. a problem in the space constraints has evolved and has become one of the biggest concerns of private house owners and even the business and commercial space owners. The urban areas have been very crowded lately and still there are a lot of people from rural areas who would prefer to live in urban areas because this is where greener pastures are and where better work opportunities can be found.
Growing urban population which is appropriate in growing the customer base among the different population
4. “If we watch what people buy we can infer what their needs and desires are and even anticipate with those needs will be in the future.” “We can see the points of engagement in the shopping process and the points of friction the obstacles to purchase.” “We can modify the experience and improve the shopping
As a ‘fundamental objective ' is about the convenience of online shopping. They are comments, online shopping is easy to find trade from different suppliers at home without having to go to the store. So, it will save you time, then shop in a store, in a retail store you have to go out to a store to another store. In addition to the convenience, customers can shop online without any time limit. You can search the World Wide Web online from Monday to Sunday, is open all year round 24 hours, anytime. It is also convenient for customers to share information through chats or discussion forums, to help others make better buying decisions. This is because the Internet a wide range, customers allow stores around the world, achieving great Internet sales, and comparison shop from the comfort of your home. Online shopping convenience to remove restrictive customers shopping in a store or purchase items they must be based on what is available locally. Online shopping at home than to spend time in places, gathered together more safely. This idea would also apply during peak seasons, such as the lunar New Year, Hari Raya Puasa, Deepavali and avoid large crowds during the Christmas holidays. In this way, it may lose the shopping for outdoor fun. In – store shopping could make social connections than that shopping independently
Today’s customers are more aware and empowered, and have more bargaining power due to the exponential increase in competition – direct, indirect or substitute. In retailing, they want hassle-free shopping, have less time at their disposal to locate the shop and the merchandise and are reluctant to keep waiting. The modern format retail stores are doing their best to anticipate the customer’s demands and are going all out to redesign their store interiors, offer more choices in varieties and assortments, and are giving as many services as feasible.
Business like Amazon wants to make buying item from their business easier for customers. This is why Amazon offers E-retailing which gives customer option to go shopping online. The internet has had impact change on consumers shopping habit as shopping online has numerous advantages which is why online shopping continues to gain popularity. Some of the advantages of E-retailing is that it’s convenient as consumers are able to go shopping at home which could help them save cost on travelling and also gives consumers an option to compare prices of different products as there are wide range of products being sold online.
The behavior was observed from a large sample of people. This included twenty people shopping alone and twenty people shopping in a group, for a total of forty subjects, each ranging in ages from approximately 19 to 40 years old. The subjects were observed from the time they entered the store until the time they left. The reasoning behind this was to see the buying behavior differences for the whole experience and figure out which areas of the store could be improved in order to appeal to groups of people shopping. The behaviors observed included the amount of time spent inside the store, the amount of money spent, the interactions with associates, and the areas of the stores that were navigated.
There are more categories of products on the internet. And there are a lot of choices that people can choose, so they can buy what they want. The choice of a store is very much influenced by location and store types (Sinha, p.14). But brick and mortar stores have fewer kinds of products than online, and online shopping does not be influenced by location. Also, people do not need to be afraid to go buy some private things, if they want to buy in public store, such as, sanitary towel, underwear and so on. Because they can buy it on the internet and even it has more choices. Moreover, if customers want to buy a lot of things, and those things are not in the same place, then they need to run around here and there to buy all kinds of products they want. However, online shopping does not have this problem. People do not need to go out on a sunny or rainy day, just stay at home and pay it on the phone or computer. But the mall can provide some services for customers that are not available online, such as urgent care medical centers and roller coasters (Resnick, pp.1127-1128). Even then, online shopping is still better than traditional shopping. Furthermore, people can compare merchandise from different shops, so they can choose the cheapest and the best. Customers can try on new forms of apparel in stores, but it is too risky to purchase it based on pictures and text description in the internet (Resnick,