Since local businesses are so small, they have the advantage of being able to communicate with customers closer and more in depth about the store than Wal-Mart greeters who only say "hello" and "have a nice day"; not about anything such as the well-being of the community and what customers like about the small business and what needs changing. In the same article by Marco Terry, he makes a great point in "Remember what you actually sell", and uses the apple store as an example. Not only does the Apple store have a great product but they also have great customer service to pride themselves on. If small businesses can cash in on quality customer service, they stand a much better chance of doing better business in the wake of a Wal-Mart arrival. In another article, 10 Ways To Beat Wal-Mart, the author Chad Brooks makes a point of small businesses taking advantage of the ability to maintain top notch customer service due to the intimate nature of a small business.
In one supermarket, they placed a few beers on a top shelf in a cereal aisle and it sat unnoticed as shoppers picked up cereals around it. When asked after they checked out, every shopper stated that they were unaware of the beers that were there. It is vey important that items are placed correctly in a supermarket because the markets for beer drinkers are not going to be looking in the cereal aisle for beer. The film also illustrates a young teenager and a young woman that are very frequent shoppers. This young teenager is only thirteen years old and has the need to go shopping almost every weekend, and the young lady is grown but has an addiction to a specific designer named Chloe.
Comparison of Pacific Mall and the Shops of Don Mills Pacific Mall and the Shops of Don Mills are both very popular shopping centers within the Greater Toronto Area. While both of these are prime destinations for residents of the GTA for shopping, they are very similar to each other while remaining very different from each other. These similarities and differences can be shown through a variety of methods; among these are the place of these destinations, placelessness of these two malls, and the territory in which they reside. Further similarities and differences can be observed through their clientele, location, marketing, layout, and stores. A place is a location in space imbued with unique attributes that set it apart from other
Her father was most of the time at work and when he was home he didn't bother talking much to Connie. So Connie didn't have love from him and had to find male attention elsewhere. When Connie would be her best friend, they would pretend to go the shopping plaza but would sneak across the
Barbara will now be unemployed until she secures a job elsewhere, and with almost her entire earnings at Wal-‐Mart invested into her barely livable hotel room, she really has no extra money to get her by with living essentials until she is employed again. Leaving Wal-‐Mart seemed like a viable option to her because she had extra money saved away because she is not actually living on minimum wage. At the end of the day, Barbara has enough money to keep herself fed, clothed, and under a roof. Her friend, Melissa, on the other had, has very little money saved up and may not actually be able to sustain normal living conditions while in-‐between jobs. In conclusion, I applaud Ehrenreich for taking a stance against Wal-‐Mart and deciding to leave her job there.
Most of these people receive benefits by claiming they are in between housing right now, or give the Department of Human Service paychecks for weeks where they might have only worked a few hours. I have noticed that the students with a Bridge Card feel they earned bragging rights and are proud instead of embarrassed. If you have been to the checkout lately at the grocery store, majority of college age students have the cart packed with all sorts of unhealthy goodies. Swiping like a debit card makes it easy to let others not authorized to use their food benefit card. This leads to exchanging benefits for cash or other items in return for the use of the card.
They are kind and great everyone. In Target there is also great customer service; however, there aren’t as many associates. They have to call someone to the department of choice if help is needed. When shopping in Target it is a different experience verse shopping at Walmart. There are less registers than in Walmart.
In John Updike’s “A&P”, the reader is introduced to Sammy, a young man who is fresh out of high school and working as a cashier at the local A&P grocery store. This is a pretty boring job until this day, when three young girls, wearing only bathing suits, come strolling in. Being a sleepy little town, this causes quite a big stir, especially for Sammy. This could be the most thrilling thing that’s ever happened to him at work. It’s certainly more entertaining than creating songs to the sounds of the cash register.
In the morning and evening hours people were in a hurry trying to get to and from work, school buses picking up and dropping off children, others walking and jogging to get in their exercise, some with strollers and their babies, some walking as family, husband, and wife holding hands with one or two young children. People were well kept and looked healthy, although some were moderately overweight. I did not observe any homeless person, or people that seem to be under the influence drugs or alcohol or young people gathered together aimlessly even at the corners of the four liquor stores in the
Lluvia N Moreno Aguilar April 12, 2015 Ms.Patterson Observation Assignment Sociology, many do not know the meaning behind this powerful word, that makes the world run smoothly and if we are not careful it can encounter us to situations that are not too pleasant. Going to the mall is something everyone has done at some point in life. Whether is to shop, meet with friends at the café, or simply to just go out. On this assignment I wanted to concentrate in one mall which is “Arizona Mills Mall” for the simple reason, the population that attends this mall is very diverse. And by diverse I mean, different status and ethnicity.