retail anthropology

The study of consumers' shopping habits in order to choose the best locations for new retail sites and the best designs for the development itself and for the space within each store.

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Two decades of retail anthropology provide some of the basis for this book and discusses the lure of the shopping centre or mall.

The Back Page: Book review; The Call of the Mall: How We Shop

At the time the crude feedback available to shopkeepers consisted of security guards performing the occasional count, John says, casting his mind back to the dark ages of retail anthropology.

Enterprise: Gallagher's watching your every buying move

This kind of thinking is so crucial to US business that it has spawned its own industry - retail anthropology.

While the professor agrees that we may not be as obsessive about retail anthropology in the UK, many stores still employ the persuasive principles.

How the appliance of science helps us to part with our cash; STORES PLAY MIND GAMES WITH SHOPPERS FROM THE VERY MINUTE THAT WE WALK THROUGH THEIR DOORS