04074nam a2200625 a 4500 EBC876624 MiAaPQ 20250821120506.0 m o d | cr cn |||m|||a 110930s2012 nyu foab 001 0 eng d 9781606491713 (pbk.) 9781606491720 (electronic bk.) 10.4128/9781606491720 doi 2 BEP (MiAaPQ)EBC876624 (Au-PeEL)EBL876624 (CaPaEBR)ebr10496993 (CaONFJC)MIL420523 (OCoLC)758980824 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ HF5415.32 .M555 2012 658.8342 22 Minahan, Stella. 402212 The inscrutable shopper [electronic resource] : consumer resistance in retail / Stella Minahan, Sean Sands, Carla Ferraro. 1st ed. [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, c2012. 1 electronic text (153 p.) : digital file. Consumer behavior collection Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-149) and index. Introduction -- Part I. Retailing and the consumer -- 1. A brief history of the consumer society -- 2. A brief history of shopping -- 3. The inscrutable shopper -- Part II. Elements of consumer resistance -- 4. A model of consumer resistance -- 5. Responses: mainstream and fringe -- Part III. The strategic retailer -- 6. Implications for retailers -- 7. Responsible retailing -- 8. Best practice considerations -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Index. Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. Traditional retail marketing theory has aimed to assist retailers with ideas, suggestions, and methods to attract shoppers and encourage them to spend, and ideally engender loyalty. Attracting shoppers, and encouraging them to purchase, has traditionally involved a range of marketing tactics within the retail environment, such as hanging banners, engaging barkers, playing music, designing elaborate store environments, and spending a continually increasing amount on advertising. We take a different approach with this book and ask the retailer to strategically consider and understand its customer base, particularly the issues surrounding why some customers may, or may not, choose to purchase (or shop) at all: what we define as the inscrutable shopper. While some retailers will not need to do any more than let the customer know that they exist (they have their formula just right), the reality for many retailers is that they are caught up in the business of day-to- day retail operations and lose sight of customer shifts, let alone have the time to consider why customers may not be purchasing. Hence the focus of this book is to provide an understanding of the different customer types that exist today, as a challenge of resistance to consumption. Also available in print. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on September 30, 2011). Consumer behavior. 35472 Consumption (Economics) 402213 Marketing. 34321 Consumer resistance anticonsumption retail strategy consumer behavior environmentalism green consumer consumer boycotts Electronic books. 35142 Sands, Sean. 402214 Ferraro, Carla. 402215 Print version: 9781606491713 Consumer behavior collection. 402216 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=876624 Click to View 283231 283231