Anatomy of a Purchase – Buying Behavior – Emotional Purchase or Need

Hurom Juicer

Have you ever gone to the store specifically to purchase 1 thing and come home with something totally different?  I did just that recently.  What may at first appear to be a random emotional purchase isn’t really.  Our buying behavior can be analyzed quite easily if you just track back to what made it happen. [...]

Smart Shopping-Smart Choices = A Savvy Wardrobe

Emotional Shopper

Get a No Stress Wardrobe Shopping…I have a friend who likes to “shop”.   She likes to see what she can find to buy.  I know she’s doing it because she’ll send me pictures asking what I think. Choices, shopping, decisions…I know how difficult shopping can be.  It’s frustrating not finding what you are looking [...]

JCPenney – Changing the Face of Retail

JCPenney

Bringing the Joy Back to Shopping I believe that the face of retail is changing.  I do….it’s going to be hard but I believe that the only way for retail to survive is to STOP with the “couponing”…. I hate coupons, but perhaps it’s because I never seem to have the right one in my [...]

Von Maur – “Our Only Interest Is YOU”

Von-Maur-StyleYOUniversity.com

Von Maur – “Our Only Interest Is YOU” Von Maur marked entry into the southeast in November of 2011. It has been a long time since we have experience the attention to detail that a specialty store can bring.  I am excited to see what it might signal in retail Von Maur is a mid-west [...]

Impulsive Style-Is it Yours?

Women-SHopping

Have you ever walked into a store knowing you wanted, even needed something and 4 hours later walked out with a mixture of delight and trepidation, bags in hand?  You are delighted because you have fulfilled the need to buy something new.  You are fearful because now you don’t really know what to do with [...]

Back to Basics

Basics

Last week I shopped with my older sister.  You could say that we are a complement of each others gifts and talents because we are polar opposites. Although she, like most of us likes to look nice, she has more confidence getting dressed when someone else will show her how to put outfits together.  So [...]

5 Ways to Eliminate Returns!

I really hate returns, well, I take that back.  The only returns I  like are on my investments and those are few and far between these days!  But seriously, I abhor returning items to a store.  It is a waste of time and money.  Here are 5 easy ways to eliminate or at the very [...]

How to Be a Frugalista

Have you noticed when you shop lately that you have more trepidation and are somewhat guilty not if you purchase something, but whenever you buy anything these days?  We’ve become so painfully aware of the financial woes of seemingly everyone that even when we go to the grocery store, there are glum faces.  Whalt’s a shopper [...]

How to Shop When it is Not Your “Season” or on a Budget

We are often confused by all the latest trends and want to go out to buy something just so we can be up to date or ‘on trend’. Have you ever gone to the shops and not seen any color you like or even looks good on you? Or, you may be experiencing a budget [...]