Shopping shoppers at Yonge-Dundas Squarein Toronto, Canada, in December 2009. A retailer or shop

SHOPPING
Shoppers at Yonge-Dundas Squarein Toronto, Canada, in December 2009.
A retailer or shop is a business that presents a selection of goods or services and offers to sell them to customers for money or other goods. Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. In some contexts it may be considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one.
In modern days customer focus is more transferred towards online shopping, worldwide people order products from different regions and online retailers delivers there products to there homes, offices or wherever they want.
The B2C process has made it easy for consumers to select any product online from a retailers website and it is delivered to consumer within no time. The consumer does not need to consume his energy by going out to the stores and saves his time of travelling.
A woman shopping at a shopping mall in the United States in December 2005.
The shopping experience can range from delightful to terrible, based on a variety of factors including how the customer is treated, convenience, the type of goods being purchased, and mood.
The shopping experience can also be influenced by other shoppers.
For example, research from a field experiment found that male and female shoppers who were accidentally touched from behind by other shoppers left a store earlier than people who had not been touched and evaluated brands more negatively, resulting in the Accidental Interpersonal Touch effect.
According to a 2000 report, in the U.S. state of New York, women purchase 80% of all consumer goods and influence 80% of health-care decisions.
SHOPPING HUBS
A larger commercial zone can be found in many cities, more formally called a central business district, but more commonly called "downtown" in the United States, or in Arabcities, souks. Shopping hubs, or shopping centers, are collections of stores; that is a grouping of several businesses.
A group of women window shopping in Toronto, Canada in 1937.
Typical examples include shopping malls, town squares, flea markets and bazaars.
STORES
Stores are divided into multiple categories of stores which sell a selected set of goods or services. Usually they are tiered by target demographics based on the disposable income of the shopper. They can be tiered from cheap to pricey.
Some shops sell secondhand goods. Often the public can also sell goods to such shops. In other cases, especially in the case of anonprofit shop, the public donates goods to these shops, commonly known as thrift stores in the United States or charity shops in theUnited Kingdom. In give-away shops goods can be taken for free.
In antique shops, the public can find goods that are older and harder to find. Sometimes people are broke and borrow money from a pawn shop using an item of value as collateral. College students are known to resell books back through college textbook bookstores. Old used items are often distributed through surplus stores.
Various types of retail stores that specialize in the selling of goods related to a theme include bookstores, boutiques, candy shops, liquor stores, gift shops, hardware stores, hobby stores, pet stores, pharmacies, sex shops and supermarkets.
Other stores such as big-box stores, hypermarkets, convenience stores, department stores, general stores, dollar stores sell a wider variety of products not horizontally related to each other.