The shops are patronised by South Asians who travel into the neighbourhood.Ethnic communities that are based on shopping are, of course, not nearly so monolithic as ones rooted in language and neighbourhood.
Closing stores affects the real-estate market — the downtowns of many cities are based on shopping — and the lack of stores changes our social habits, too.
The system also auto-groups customers based on shopping habits, which is convenient feature if you're a small store with an active customer population and CRM isn't your primary focus.
The gun shop is based on the shop that the Los Angeles Police Department went to during the North Hollywood bank robbery to acquire more powerful firearms.
In general shops, 19% of the mystery shoppers were sold an antimalarial, which was more than expected based on the shop census in which 8% of all general shops that had drugs in stock also stocked an antimalarial [ 24].
Find&Save, for example, brings you latest sales and promotions based on which shopping mall or retail store you are at.
Amazon will reportedly begin featuring personalized advertisements on Kindle devices based on the shopping habits of its customers.
Tesco's in-store cafés could have interactive tabletops, which, prompted by a customer's cellphone, would suggest recipes based on his shopping list.
That agenda was based on encouraging shop stewards to in effect assume the role and influence of factory floor managers – giving greater authority to the trade unions.
Last month Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, revealed that the search-engine giant had developed a "Google Price Index", based on web-shopping data it holds though it has yet to decide whether to publish it.
