Smart Shopping

Do you know how to prioritize your purchases? This book introduces readers to effective shopping skills. Real world examples help readers learn the importance of math skills for money management. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

Super-Smart Shopping models different ways children can help their families make good decisions when shopping and develop skills to be a smart consumer.

This book offers insight into important trends in the global travel and tourism industry and analyzes developments in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behavior. The articles are based on presentations and panel discussions presented at the world's largest tourism convention, the ITB Convention Market Trends and Innovations.

This study presents a comprehensive behavioral model for the determinants and consequences of price sensitivity in the domain of electronic entertainment. Survey data was collected in the fields of internet entertainment, video games, and mobile entertainment. The data is analyzed using a structural equation modeling approach for the whole sample and for each domain, respectively. The estimates yield a close overall model fit. However, considerable differences between the domains exist. The model is embedded in a learning theory paradigm that explains why price sensitivity has become an increasingly popular phenomenon. The model and the methodology used in this study can help researchers and practitioners to better understand and cope with price sensitive consumers.

This book presents the latest research on national brand and private label marketing, in the form of original, rigorous and relevant contributions from the 2016 National Brands and Private Label Marketing conference in Barcelona. It covers retailing-related topics, such as brand naming and packaging decisions, price elasticity, positioning, branding, consumer behavior, economic crisis, strategies in growth, and mature private labels.

Global economic scenarios are increasing in complexity due to the recent global financial crisis, globalization, the evolution of ICT, and the changing behaviors of consumers. This has made it difficult to predict trends and build strategies within the retail industry. As a result, long-term forecasts and schedules are not possible, and more research is needed to explore today’s consumer profile and set the frameworks for future recovery strategies. Predicting Trends and Building Strategies for Consumer Engagement in Retail Environments is a pivotal reference source that provides practical insights into improving the understanding of complex retail environments and consumer shopping behaviors in order to predict trends and develop strategies for retailers in times of economic crisis. While highlighting topics such as consumer engagement, industry models, and market globalization, this publication explores qualitative and quantitative methods of interest and the multidisciplinary approaches revolving around the industry. This book is ideally designed for marketers, managers, practitioners, retail professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on relationship marketing, digital marketing, service management, and complexity theories.

'Eat a banana before you go shopping!' No, that's not a diet advice, but a tip for SMART Shopping! A whole host of such SMART shopping ideas is what this book is all about. Contrary to what we would like to believe, shopping is not a rational or logical activity. There are various facets of human subconscious which influence a person's choice, especially with regard to shopping. In the majority of instances, the person is unaware of all these aspects, and thus is unable to control their shopping. The Ultimate Guide to SMART Shopping details all these facets and provides clear, actionable steps to help develop SMART Shopping habits. The book covers various facets of shopping such as: Why should you always check when you see an unbelievable offer? Whether should you take your children along to shop or not? How to get good service?. It will help you shop smartly, prudently and actually save your money! Read the book and start SMART Shopping today.