The park was more “Americanized” and had little to do with European culture. “They called the park an American cultural abomination.” (Hartley, 141) There were also three other amusement parks in the area that had failed and gone bankrupt. Being the monopoly that they are, they thought they were better than everyone else and were able to do more and get more people attracted the the park. They thought about the American version of Disney with little consideration of how the Europeans feelings/considerations. Unfortunately this was not the case, sales were down and the number of people were down based on the recession in the area.
1- How do values and lifestyles of European consumers differ from those of consumers in the US? Discuss the Disney failure to address the European consumers’ preferences based on the respective values and lifestyles. European travel and entertainment consumers differ a lot when compared to US ones. To begin with the culture of European consumers is very distant from that of the Americans. In fact, Europeans are appalled by the modern American culture.
But consumers aren't helping their fellow countryman earn his own living by buying these imported items. Consumers are giving their hard-earned money to Walmart to go back to China to buy more items. (Smith & Young, 2004). Walmart has created new jobs for people when they open new stores, but they are underpaid jobs. Many of the positions are part-time, therefore, they are positions without benefits.
WW1 ends – The ending of WW1 meant that the European countries were able to meet their own demands and therefore did not need any more supplies from America. Farmers suffered from overproduction and could not afford to keep their homes or pay mortgages, some farmers even decided to become sharecroppers. In 1924, 600,000 farmers went bankrupt. Also, there was stiff competition from Canadian, Australian and Argentinean farmers who were selling vast amounts of grain to the world market. Over-production – Fewer products such as cars, consumer good etc were not being sold as factories were making more goods than Americans needed or could afford to buy.
America began on small businesses and America has to continue to have small businesses to have a good economy. Wal-Mart endangers businesses all over the country because small businesses cannot compete with the superpower on account of Wal-Mart getting goods from places like China. Most people live within thirty minutes of a Wal-Mart and with their lower prices people will continue to shop there without realizing what they are doing to their own economy. Most people don’t realize that saving a few dollars by shopping at Wal-Mart is crippling all the local businesses around their area. Wal-Mart does not care about the American economy because they are thriving the way the economy is now, so American citizens have to stand up for their communities.
The Walt Disney Company open EuroDisney in April 1992, and expected their most lavish park to be a success, since it was larger and Disneyland, Disneyworld and Tokyo Disneyland. Much to the company’s surprise, European’s were not flocking to the park in the massive numbers that visited Tokyo Disneyland. At Tokyo Disneyland, families would stay overnight and often spend around $600 per visit, and many visitors were repeat customers. In contrast, European families were reluctant to stay overnight, and they did not want to spend the $280 a day to visit the park. Paris was chosen for the location of EuroDisney over 200 other sites because the French government had offered incentives to the company, along with the demographic data available showing Paris to be Europe’s most visited city by tourists.
A global approach to a new product kept development and country managers from focusing on consumer variances in consumption habits. General differences toward types of food and consumption varied greatly across Europe. For example, German consumer concerns centered on food safety, environmental impact, and natural products, whereas French consumers valued traditional cooking, pleasure/taste, and eating well. The end result was a conflict of cultural issues within the company and a deteriorating regard for consumer preferences externally. Results after the development of Krona were poor.
* Had fresh water * Apprentice house was long walk from the mill * Got an education How was it similar to other mills (making it important)? * Got many fines like other mills as they did not listen to the new laws like 10 hours a day How was it different to other mills so making it less important? * They did not do corporal punishment as they thought it was wrong but other mills did do this. * paid less money to the workers compared to other mills but they provided them with great stuff unlike other mills * Gave workers better meals as then the workers would work better. * The cottages in styal village were not built back to back which enabled them have fresh water and more space * provided education before the laws as Hannah Gregg was passionate about this * Gregg family built their family house close by so they could see how the apprentice were treated * Had doctor holland who check if the workers were 9 and if they were healthy to work How has the national trust change
Consumers need to be aware of all the sweet 2 drinks we take in, and realize that we take a lot more in then what we think. As a parent we are told that Gatorade and sports drinks are good for our children, but if you look at the ingredients you will see that they are just as bad. Even the diet sodas are bad for you. People consume most of their calories in sodas and sweet drinks. We need to make these sugary drinks not so easy to buy.
The median per capita income is about $16,000.00 less than the national average and less that 50 percent of the adults over 25 have graduated high school” (413). Mr. Robinson works a part time job to make an extra dollar (415) which in turn leads to less time with his daughters and therefore the habits that they all have learned about eating can’t be addressed as a family. The circumstances leading to this way of life for the Robinson family play a major role in the outcome. An individual who lacks the income necessary to purchase healthy food may turn to cheaper, unhealthy food. Haygood‘s essay implies the financial burden of purchasing more expensive foods limits the ability to choose a healthy lifestyle.