Questioning the Universality of Institutional Transformation Theories in Spatial Planning: Shopping Mall Developments in Palermo

Theories about institutional transformation in spatial planning, although mainly based on the Anglo-Saxon context, have assumed a dominant role in planning research and theory as means to understand the transformations that have been restructuring planning systems in recent decades in the Western world and beyond. The article, looking at transformations of planning practice through the lenses of the concept of planning cultures, debates the utility of building ‘universal’ theories for spatial planning and advocates for the need for a de-provincialization of planning theories. This is done through a case-study approach applied to the history of the transformation of the retail system in a context characterized by the specificities of the Italian planning context and Southern European cities, namely: the planning processes for, and power relationships underlying, the first shopping malls opened in Palermo, Italy, since 2009 — some decades later than most of Western cities.

Indoor location-based analytics systems: Portuguese market compettive assessment and entry procing strategy of BIPs' technology in Sonae Sierra Shopping malls stores

This project attempts to provide an in-depth competitive assessment of the Portuguese indoor location-based analytics market, and to elaborate an entry-pricing strategy for Business Intelligence Positioning System (BIPS) implementation in Portuguese shopping centre stores. The role of industry forces and company’s organizational resources platform to sustain company’s competitive advantage was explored. A customer value-based pricing approach was adopted to assess BIPS value to retailers and maximize Sonae Sierra profitability. The exploratory quantitative research found that there is a market opportunity to explore every store area types with tailored proposals, and to set higher-than-tested membership fees to allow a rapid ROI, concluding there are propitious conditions for Sierra to succeed in BIPS store’s business model in Portugal.

Turning Lisbon into a tourism and luxury shopping destination for Chinese travellers

Branding Lab

Young adults' preferences and satisfaction levels in Duty-free shopping in airports

This study aims to explore and understand what young adults’ duty free shoppers (18-26 years old) want and are getting from travel retail shopping on airport environments and to evaluate their satisfaction levels with the service. It has important managerial contributions since it is an important target in a fast growing market. An online survey was conducted with 188 young adults and its results show that young adults’ are somewhat satisfied with the overall service on duty free stores mainly in what concerns quality of the products and physical evidence of the stores. Results also show that the majority of buyers within this segment are price driven and strongly influenced by promotions associated with price reductions, and do not seem very satisfied with respect to that. Keywords: Young

Online strategies for offline business the case of Millennials and shopping centrs (Sonae Sierra)

The project, conducted within a direct research internship at Sonae Sierra, aims to propose innovative digital approaches for Shopping Centres (SC) to deal successfully with millennial consumer behavior concerning digital devices and online content in relation to shopping. An online survey followed by a focus group were conducted for this purpose. Results show a demand for specific digital services created by a SC and that their perception depends highly on gender of millennials. Moreover it´s a cohort seeking for personalized content, providing emotional or functional benefit. Consequently a SC must deliver services, as presented in this work satisfying those needs.

List of grocery items from J.A. Woodruff to R. Bruce with prices

List of grocery items from J.A. Woodruff to R. Bruce with prices, 1866.

Fairy shopping.

Historia con todos los personajes familiares de los cuentos de hadas. Para dar un paseo por las calles llenas de tiendas y compradores, entre ellos, hadas, gigantes, duendes, dragones, ranas y princesas. El texto señala, cómo hay tiendas de varitas y alas, ingredientes para el caldero, sombreros para gatos, zapatillas de cristal, botas de siete leguas. Tiendas donde los animales domésticos pueden elegir a sus propietarios, donde se pueden disfrutar de tres deseos, o venta de lámparas de magia, y cómo al anochecer todos los personajes vuelven a casa cargados con sus compras.

The shopping basket.

Un viaje a la tienda de comestibles, para hacer el encargo de su madre, se convierte para Steve en una extraordinaria aventura, que encuentra toda clase de riesgos en su camino, puesto que una serie de personajes intentan aligerarle la cesta camino a casa y tiene que usar su ingenio para esquivarlos.

Adam goes shopping.

Material de apoyo didáctico para usar en sesiones de lectura guiada, teniendo en cuenta las necesidades del aula y obtener el máximo rendimiento en la lectura con los niños. Para: hacer colecciones de palabras relacionadas con temas específicos, utilizar mayúsculas para los nombres propios, reunir información de las propias experiencias, utilizar fonológica, contextual y gramaticalmente el conocimiento para elaborar nuevas palabras. Mamá y papá van de compras con Adán y Yasmin. Adam termina cansado y entra en una tienda de campaña que está expuesta en los grandes almacenes.

Going shopping.

Se compara lo que hacemos hoy con lo que sucedió cuando nuestros padres abuelos e incluso bisabuelos eran jóvenes. Averiguar qué era ir de compras en el pasado, buscando fotografías antiguas y luego compararlo con ir de compras hoy.

Shopping : unidad didáctica.

Se presenta la unidad didáctica de Inglés, Shopping, dirigida al alumnado de Enseñanza Secundaria. El tema analizado se estructura en siete lecciones en las que se estudian diferentes situaciones de consumo y la compra de diferentes productos. Se pretende, tanto el aprendizaje de habilidades comunicativas en Lengua Inglesa como potenciar la educación para el consumo. Se adjunta un cuestionario de autoevaluación del alumnado para su aplicación al finalizar la unidad didáctica.

Going shopping

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