Intro
Intro
•Emergence of malls
•Improving the quality of
life and convenience
•Malls are provided retail
and entertainment in a
controlled internal environment.
•‘quality of life which has led to the
emergence of the mall culture in India.
Reasons for the growth of malls
• A fast growing middle class income
• Middle class will increase from 300
million to 520 million in 5 years.
• Increase in number of double income
households
• Focus on the youth as a target market.
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• Researchers reveal that consumer spending
grew at a rate of 6 percent per annum in the
last 10 years.
• Influence of media and marketing
communication resulting in changing
aspirations, lifestyle and change in
consumer shopping.
• Mall developers make consumers in enjoy
shopping through cost effectiveness, added
convenience along with the fun element.
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• Indian woman started playing a more active role
than she earlier used to play.
• Besides that, foreign retailers have aptly
supported the Indian consumer by making them
globally aware.
• Bangalore, Chennai tremendous growth in mall
culture, while in North malls are coming up in a
big way, the east is still growing, while in the
west Mumbai is considered as the most
progressive zone, Pune too is catching up with
the trend.
Impulse Buying at Malls
• Impulse buying is increased among customers.
• Mall and brand management calls for employing
various strategies to lure customers to go for
impulse purchases. The strategies are – 1)
design malls with attractors 2) attractive visual
merchandising, provide high level of service
showing concern for customers.
• Impulse buying and unplanned purchases
constitute a large part of sales at malls.
Success of Malls
• Malls differentiate themselves and work towards
building long lasting relationships with customers,
ensuring repeatability of visits and purchases.
• Customer retention programmes
• Use IT to develop the right information
• Mall planning software to plan and analysis of revenue
to provide and support proper management.
• Retail space
• Mall a pleasurable experience by providing tangible as
well as intangible benefits to customers.
• Success of a mall partly depends on the presence of
other stores within the mall and especially on the
presence of the mall’s anchor stores.
Few Popular Malls
• 1) Forum at Bangalore:
6,50,000 sq ft in area contains 3,50,000sqft of retail
and service space and 3,00,000sqft of parking.
the attractiveness of mall – good location, lots of
space, good parking facilities and multi activity centre.
Strategically researched and planned for maximum
impact and attraction.
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