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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

by Paco Underhill

Simon & Schuster | December 30, 2008 | Trade Paperback

Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture -- full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world''s emerging markets. New material includes:

• The latest trends in online retail -- what retailers are doing right and what they''re doing wrong -- and how nearly every Internet retailer from iTunes to Amazon can drastically improve how it serves its customers.

• A guided tour of the most innovative stores, malls and retail environments around the world -- almost all of which are springing up in countries where prosperity is new. An enormous indoor ski slope attracts shoppers to a mall in Dubai; an uber luxurious Sao Paolo department store provides its customers with personal shoppers; a mall in South Africa has a wave pool for surfing.

The new Why We Buy is an essential guide -- it offers advice on how to keep your changing customers and entice new and eager ones.

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Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture -- full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world''s emerging markets. New material includes:

• The latest trends in online retail -- what retailers are doing right and what they''re doing wrong -- and how nearly every Internet retailer from iTunes to Amazon can drastically improve how it serves its customers.

• A guided tour of the most innovative stores, malls and retail environments around the world -- almost all of which are springing up in countries where prosperity is new. An enormous indoor ski slope attracts shoppers to a mall in Dubai; an uber luxurious Sao Paolo department store provides its customers with personal shoppers; a mall in South Africa has a wave pool for surfing.

The new Why We Buy is an essential guide -- it offers advice on how to keep your changing customers and entice new and eager ones.

About the Author

Paco Underhill is an Environmental Psychologist and founder of a market research and consulting company called Envirosell. He uses the idea of environmental psychology that our surroundings influence our behavior thus finding ways of forming man-made environments to make them conducive to retail purposes. He uses psychology through Aesthetics to supply the appropriate atmosphere for shopping. He has been called a Sherlock Holmes for retailers by the San Francisco Chronicle. Some books he has written are - Why We Buy : The Science of Shopping and Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping. His current book is entitled What Women Want.

Trade Paperback

320 Pages, 5.5 x 8.44 x 0.9 in

December 30, 2008

Simon & Schuster

English


1416595244
9781416595243

From the Critics

"Why We Buy is a funny and insightful book for people on both sides of the retail counter." -- Michael Gould, CEO, Bloomingdale''s

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