Classify Shoppers

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As I walk up and down the aisles of any given store, I can’t help but to look around and notice how every shopper varies from one another. Each person can be placed into a category. No matter what store I go into there will always be these types of shoppers: the wanderer, the man on a mission, the extreme couponer, the negotiator, and the loyalist. The first type of shopper is the wanderer. The wanderer is someone who goes shopping without a particular purpose. They walk into their favorite stores just to browse for enjoyment. I personally am placed in this division. I could spend an entire day in a colossal mall at my own leisure. Every year I visit family in Atlanta Georgia and on our free day all the girls head out reasonably early till …show more content…
They have a checklist of items they need to buy and then they are finished; no time for dilly-dallying. For say, if the customer is in desperate need of an evening dress for an event occurring in a couple of weeks, they won't stop and look at the nice t-shirt they spot in the corner of their eye. Then there is a the extreme couponer. This is the person at checkout holding up the long line of impatient customers trailing behind them while they scrummage through their pockets and/or purse in attempt to find an applying coupon out of the countless they have. The only purchase they will make is if the item has a coupon or discount of some sort. They cut out all the coupons they can possibly get out of what most would consider “junk mail”, whether they are certain it is useful to them or not. Although this may be extremely annoying, they end up saving umpteen dollars over the course of time. Another kind is the negotiator. This type of shopper refuses to buy something for the original price. They will persistently try to talk the salesman into lowering the price to the absolute cheapest amount. I once witnessed a man trying to bargain with a yard sell owner over something as simple as a picture