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Why We Buy : The Science of Shopping

ISBN: 9780684849140 | 0684849143
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date: 6/2/2000

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by theSan Francisco Chronicleas "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture.Why We Buyis based on hard data gleaned from thousands of hours of field research -- in shopping malls, department stores, and supermarkets across America. With his team of sleuths tracking our every move, from sweater displays at the mall to the beverage cooler at... MORE
I INSTEAD OF SAMOA, STORES: THE SCIENCE OF SHOPPING
A Science Is Born
11(23)
What Retailers Don't Know
34(11)
II WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN: THE MECHA... MORE
The Twilight Zone
45(7)
You Need Hands
52(8)
How to Read a Sign
60(15)
Shoppers Move Like People
75(11)
Dynamic
86(12)
III MEN ARE FROM SEARS HARDWARE, WOMEN ARE FROM BLOOMINGDALE'S: THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF SHOPPING
Shop Like a Man
98(14)
What Women Want
112(17)
If You Can Read This You're Too Young
129(12)
Kids
141(20)
IV SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, BUY ME: THE DYNAMICS OF SHOPPING
The Sensual Shopper
161(22)
The Big Three
183(6)
Time, Real and Perceived
189(6)
Cash/Wrap Blues
195(5)
Magic Acts
200(12)
In Cyberspace, No One Can Hear You Shop
212(12)
The Self-Exam
224(14)
Final Thoughts
238(7)
Acknowledgments245(4)
Index249
With clients ranging from McDonald's to Starbucks, Estée Lauder to Blockbuster and Citibank to Wells Fargo, Paco Underhill has been profiled in The New Yorker and Smithsonian Magazine, has written for American Demographics and Adweek and lectures widely. He is based in New York City.

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