Do you remember how great great grandfather did the family shopping? He would hook up his team of horses to the big wagon put in the family and trudge off across the prairie for a day or so to get to the nearest ‘general store’. Once there it was a great outing for the family. The store had everything needed from children’s store bought candy to mother’s ready made dress. If the store did not have that certain special item there was always the option of the catalog.
After the turn of the century (1900 not 2000) a couple of remarkable changes occurred that begin to alter family shopping. America began to grow up and out – at least to the oceans. And the automobile made its auspicious entrance. Now the family could get to the general store much faster. Mother loved that, she could make more trips is a shorter time.
There was, however, an embryo of change being observed in the stores themselves. The increase in populations made for more stores and a wider variety of markets. The general store began to break up. ‘Specialty’ stores began to emerge. Dress shops, drug stores, movie theaters etc. A whole group of cottage industries began to make an entrance. It is true the big boys were still ever present and getting bigger. Sears Roebuck and Co, J. C. Penny, and others were still on top, still selling through the ever present catalogs.
As our country grew through World War II it became more sophisticated. The little village grew into a city. This resulted in the concept of a ‘town square’. The big stores were usually on opposite sides of the square with the little specialty shops filling in the gaps. Usually these types of cities were the county seat so you would have a court house and a government office building. There was something else of importance that came into prominence through this period. Access to information began to grow with the appearance of the County Library.
As we moved into the 1960s the automobile presented a nightmare problem to family shopping that was totally unexpected. Traffic and Parking began to choke the city square concept. It is certain everyone still wanted to shop, but usually at the same time. It was near impossible to find a parking meter on the down town streets in the town square.
American ingenuity, as usual, prevailed. We made parking the priority item and called it all a ‘suburban shopping mall’. Now there were acres of free parking with the shops in the middle. The next major evolution was to air condition the whole shopping mall. What’s not to like? The big guys where still at opposite ends of the shopping mall. Now there was unlimited space for expansion of the specialty shops. Even better, it was all accessible on foot. Only thing left was the food court. Now family shopping had moved to heaven.
We refined and sharpen this concept to an art form over the next few decades. Some where during that period of time the government slipped in a not understood or utilized system which took the handle of the ‘internet’. So what? Nothing happened for a long time. Then the next stunning invention occurred. The mouse (computer) began to wiggle around. Do you not understand that without the mouse the computer is a black box? Put them together and we have the Personal Computer.
Somewhere in the eternal scheme of things the infinite minds of the computer geeks and nerds began to squeak and rumble. A marriage of the internet and personal computer took place. While that is a worthwhile discourse in its own right far too large for our purposes we would be remiss to pass it by without comment. It was only a few years back, in the mid 1990s that this even occurred. This is important to understand to be able to focus of the rapidity of current events, speaking of the internet online shopping. It was about 1994/95 time period that a company called Netscape came along with their commercial internet browser. It started an absolute revolution. It is not until about 1996 that Microsoft finally figured it out and came roaring down the road with their internet explorer. The race was on.
The other side of the story was the functional software development on the internet. In the beginning the only thing we could figure out for the internet was file transfer (FTP). Then it dawned on someone that if we could read from the internet why not write to the internet. Incredible concept! Websites began popping up all over the place.
We began to see a true information highway. Any company could advertise it presence throughout the world with minimal effort. The internet browser now could interact with a company’s data base. Of course, it was just a heart beat away until the website could actually sell products. The impact of this was absolutely profound. Shopping was changing course. It was now being called internet online shopping. Family online shopping was born.
Internet online shopping is now moving so fast it is near impossible to keep up from day to day. However, what goes around comes around; we are right back to the 1950s, electronically speaking. The big boys still have their big websites. But now the little specialty ishops are filling in the blanks. They can compete directly with the big companies-almost. There are online shopping malls all over the internet. Home shopping online, even discount shopping online is growing non-linearly everyday
There are now, as there always are, another set of complications that have risen with need to be addressed. There are literally millions of websites on the internet to be found or in most cases NOT to be found. This has caused the mushrooming of another incredibly fast most moving cottage industry in the form of Internet Marketing. Search engines, Pay Per Click (PPC), Website Content etc. are all now very critical to a website.
When you search during an online shopping spree, for our purposes a shopping search, it is not uncommon to get back several thousand websites. In order to truly shop you must go through one website at a time until you can find that for which you are looking. This gives rise to the word surfing.
The solutions for these problems are emerging in the form of holistic online shopping mall websites that provide categories from discount shopping online to online clothes shopping to surf through. The website bears the burden and responsibility of filtering and selecting appropriate merchants based on the subject of the website.
The next cutting edge development emerging is the ‘internet online shopping specialty ishops’. That is where a very narrow subject is the focus of a ‘mini website’. For example, a ‘Women’s Plus Size Clothing Specialty iShop’ or a ‘Family Scrapbooking Specialty iShop’. The list for online shopping specialty ishops will soon be endless. The important factor here is this type of website contains only merchants for that very specific specialty. That places all the major merchants plus many of the competitive smaller online shopping website within one click of the customer. It greatly curtails the endless surfing through each merchant website.
One last point, much like the shopping mall of old the specialty online shopping website will have the library, i.e., information highway, news links, ebooks, fresh content articles and what ever else is required to maintain a holistic family shopping environment at you finger tips.
Then the next step in family online shopping will be …

Mike Miller, a single father has worked at that same company since he was 16. At 36, his future a dead end he began looking to the internet as his last frontier where he could earn his own destiny. After 2 years of work the result is the Family iMall.

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INTRODUCTION
Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is a comprehensive statistical method used in testing hypotheses about causal relationships among observed and unobserved (latent) variables and has proved useful in solving the problems in formulating theoretical constructions (Reisinger,1999). Its function have found to be better than other multivariate statistics techniques which including multiple regression, path analysis and factor analysis. Other statistics techniques could not take into consideration due to the interaction effects among depend and independent variables. Therefore, a method that can examine a series of dependence relationships simultaneously helps to address complicated managerial and behavioural issues. SEM also can expand the explanatory ability and statistical efficiency for model testing with a single comprehensive method (Pang, 1996).
Steenkamp and Baumgartner (2000) reflect on the role SEM in marketing modelling and managerial decision making. They discuss some benefits of it. They said that although SEM has potential for decision support modelling, it is probably most useful for theory testing, which is a key phase in developing marketing models [For SEM and LISREL see; Byrne (1998), Cheng (2001), Cudeck et al. (200), Hayduk (1987), Joreskog and Sorbom (2001)].
Applied to data on attitudes, perceptions, stated behavioural intentions, and actual behaviour, SEM can be used to specify and test alternative causal hypotheses. It has been found that, as might be expected, causality is often mutual. The assumption that behaviour is influenced by attitudes, perceptions, and behavioural intentions without feedbacks does not hold up when tested using SEM. These results challenge the assumption, held by some, that stated preference choices can be directly scaled into revealed-preference choice models. It was used path analysis to demonstrate empirical evidence that the causal link from choice behaviour to attitudes is stronger than the link from attitudes to choice behaviour. Subsequent studies using different forms of simultaneous equation modelling showed consistently that attitudes, especially perceptions, are conditioned by choices, while at the same time, attitudes affect choices (Golob, 2001b) . Gärling et al. (2001) explores decision making involving driving choices by using a SEM with latent variables to test links among attitude towards driving, frequency of choice of driving, and revealed presence of a certain type of decision process known as script-based. Golob (2001a) tested a series of joint models of attitude and behaviour to explain how both mode choice and attitudes. Applying Weighted Least Squares (WLS) estimation to a data set from San Diego California, the author demonstrates that choices appear to influence some opinions and perceptions, but other opinions and perceptions are independent of behaviour and dependent only upon exogenous personal and household variables. None of the models tested found any significant effects of attitudes on choice.
Most papers written have focused on the variables explaining the attraction of shopping center choice [ For exammple;Suarez et al.( 2004), Degeratu et al. (2000),Severin et al. (2001) ]. They have always used logit models and random effect model. Degeratu et al. (2000) focus specifically on assessing whether brand names and price have impact on choices online and traditional supermarkets. Severin et al. (2000) investigated use of relatively recent developments in random utility theory to assess the stability over time and space of the preferences underlying retail-shopping choice. They found that good quality, wide selection, good service, nice atmosphere and convenient location were significant choice of retail shopping center model. They noted that high and low prices and latest fashion were not consistently significant in the separate years models. They also showed that convenient location had the largest impact on the shopping center choices.
METHOD
The study has been designed to research factors which consumers consider while choosing shopping centers and to develop a suggestion model for shopping center choice. Beside demographic questions, effective factors determining peoples’ shopping center choice were asked and for 17 items, answers were taken with composed of five Likert-scale (5=very important and very unimportant ). These items are given in Table 1.
Reliability coefficient of questionnaire was calculated as Cronbach =0.79. When the items reduced alpha value were deleted reliability coefficient increased to 0.81. In this study, latent structure is composed of choosing shopping center (E) and explanatory structures are composed of features of materials sold (A), Attitude and behaviour of staff (B), Geographic location of shopping center (C), Easement of Price (D), Regularity at the shopping center (F). The structure, composed of relationship of assumed 5 independent latent variables (A,B,C,D and F) to one dependent latent variable (E) constitute the model to be tested. Hypothesis developed to test the relationship among the latent constructs are given below:
H1 ; There is a significant relationship between choosing shopping center and features of materials sold at the center.
H2 ; There is a significant relationship between choosing shopping center and attitude and behaviour of staff,
H3 ; There is a significant relationship between choosing shopping center and geographic location of the center.
H4 ; There is a significant relationship between choosing shopping center and easement of Price.
H5 ; There is a significant relationship between choosing shopping center and regularity at the shopping center.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
In this study, four models related to latent variables assumed affected to a choose shopping center have been tested by using LISREL computer program with SEM. At first, Model M1, in which all independent variables took place, has been analysed. Analysis results are given in Table 1. When the Table 1 analysis results for M1 are investigated, it is seen that A,B,D and F latent variables are not significant, goodness of fit index are close to acceptable limits and explanatory ability is 52%. Path diagram for M1 is given in Figure 1. Finally, when the M2 results, found by subtracting B, D an F from model, are observed it is seen that A and C parameter estimates are significant and fitness criteria are in the acceptable limits. R2 values of analysed models are calculated as 0.52 and 0.77 respectively. When the best proper model, M2, is observed, 77 % of the dependent latent variable that is choosing shopping center is explained with A and C independent latent constructs. H2, H4 and H5 assumptions for M2 have not been approved. Path diagram for M2 is given in Figure 2, parameter estimates of the model and t values are given in Table 2. Parameter estimates for A-E and C-E relationships in Table 2 and Fig.2 are 0.67 and 0.50, respectively. These coefficients are positive and statistically significant. Analysed models results show that closeness to the address, discount card application, market image and easement of access to the shopping center, respectively form the priority in preference of consumer choice of shopping center. Besides, advertisement of the shopping center and neighbor advice take important role in choice. Findings revealed that behaviour of sales staff at the shopping center and discount cards increase preferability; on the other hand, easement of access and closeness to their addresses take priority in choosing shopping center relative to easement of price.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, dependent latent variable that is choice of shopping center can be explained with a rate of 77% through independent latent variables i.e. features of materials sold and geographic location of the shopping center. The meaning of unexplained part with 23% is that the consumers choose shopping center considering other factors which are not taken into account in this study. The M2, found the best model in the study, is a suggestion model which depends upon a few amount of data set. It is possible to reach models having high rates by increasing data amount with alternative models.
Table 1- Items related to shopping center choice (Model 1 )
Estimation of parameter t-value
A- Features of materials sold (A)0.341.42
Brand name of materials sold (A1)0.31**3.99
Quality of materials sold (A2)0.46***7.80
Low Prices (A3)0.071.29
Wide selection (A4)0.27**5.09
B- Attitude and behaviour of staff (B)0.010.03
Behaviour of sales staff (B1)0.51***11.3
Geniality of staff (B2)0.53***11.6
C-Geographic location ( C)0.41**3.08
Closeness to the address (C1)0.67***8.64
Easement of access (C2)0.70***9.45
D- Easement of Price (D)0.26*2.06
Payment shape (D1)0.35**5.83
Promotion on selling (D2)0.58**7.30
Discount card (D3)0.69***9.22
F-Regularity (F)-0.06-0.3
Well-organized (F1)0.42***8.45
Moving at the shopping center
without difficulty (F2)0.43***8.36
E-Choosing shopping center (E )
Neighbor advice (E1)0.60
Advertisement (E2)0.59**6.42
Image (E3)0.61**6.55
*p0.05, **p0.01, ***p0.001
Fig.1. Path diagram for M1 Model
Goodness of Fit:NFI: 0.85, NNFI: 0.87, CFI: 0.90, GFI: 0.91, AGFI: 0.87, 2 /df= 2.21
Table 2- Items related to shopping center choice (Model 2)
Estimation of parameter t-value
A- Features of materials sold (A)0.67**4.76
Brand name of materials sold (A1)0.61**5.83
Quality of materials sold (A2)0.25**4.34
Wide selection (A4)0.17*2.79
C-Geographic location ( C)0.50**4.11
Closeness to the address (C1)0.66***7.81
Easement of access (C2)0.71***8.59
E-Choosing shopping center (E)
Neighbor advice (E1)0.53
Advertisement (E2)0.62**6.17
Image (E3)0.64**6.29
*p0.05, **p0.01, ***p0.001
Fig.2. Path diagram for M2 Model
Goodness of Fit:NFI: 0.80, NNFI: 0.79, CFI: 0.87, GFI: 0.94, AGFI: 0.88, 2 /df= 3.42
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Internet shopping is shaping up. However today, internet shopping is a really significant part of the retail sector. Internet shopping is the new shopping experience of the future. Of course the other major hurdle for internet shopping is shipping charges, sometimes they are to expensive. The growth rate for Internet shopping is growing. Secure internet shopping is secure using encryption and ssl techniques. Internet shopping is easier, safer, and more convenient than at any point in its history. Internet shopping is fast becoming one of the easiest ways to buy almost anything you want. Internet shopping is a way of shopping that allows shopping for required products without going to the store physically. The Internet is great because people are able to shop 24 hours a day without having to leave their home or work.
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When we want to have fun and relax we go shopping. When we want to buy something nice for our family we go shopping. When Christmas is near and we all feel the Christmas spirit we go shopping. But there is much more to the whole shopping experience.
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Company mystery shopping, secret shopping, or mystery shopping made simple is any easy way to make extra money. All large companies use secret shoppers to evaluate the performance of their employees. A secret shopper is paid to shop, and then give an unbiased evaluation about the experience. Mystery shopping is utilized by retail stores, gas stations, restaurants, cell phone companies, and most chain stores.
Therefore, an excellent opportunity is available to make money part or full-time while shopping. This is a great job for stay-at-home moms and dads, retirees, students, or anyone that is looking for a fun way to earn extra income. Most secret shoppers are part time. However, some people have turned this into a full-time income.
Be careful not to fall for companies that charge a fee to find you jobs. There are currently several companies scamming people out of their hard-earned money. It will not cost you anything to sign up and start receiving jobs. So, do not pay anything to get started because it is not necessary. There are many websites where you can sign up for free.
To get started, it is as simple as registering online with businesses that are currently looking for secret shoppers. Make sure that you check your e-mail frequently because most of the time the early bird gets the worm. You probably received the same job that was sent to several other secret shoppers.
A computer, Internet service, and fax service, are typically required to get started. A digital camera may also be required for some assignments. Mystery shoppers generally earn $10-$15 per assignment. Fortunately, most assignments can be completed in a few minutes. You can get paid to eat at your favorite restaurant, watch a movie, shop at the Gap, pump gas at BP, or take vacation to the Bahamas. Some people secret shop just to get the free services.
Before accepting an assignment, make sure that you can complete it accurately. You do not want to tarnish your reputation. Like any business, you have to keep your employer happy. Take your time and read over the assignment to make sure you are capable of performing the requested services. Also, it is a good idea to schedule several jobs in one part of town if possible. This will save precious time and gas.
When you arrive at the business, be careful to make sure that you blend in with the other customers. The last thing that you want to do is tip off the employees. After the shop is over, make sure you take detailed notes. Only include the facts in your report. Do not include your personal opinions.
In summary, company mystery shopping, secret shopping, or mystery shopping made simple is a great part time job for students, retirees, stay at home moms or dads, or anyone that is looking for extra money. Mystery shoppers generally earn between $10-$15 per assignment and receive several free services. It is free to get started by simply signing up online for companies that are seeking secret shoppers. Most everyone shops anyway, so why not get paid while you are shopping?
Company mystery shopping, secret shopping, or mystery shopping made simple is any easy way to make extra money. All large companies use secret shoppers to evaluate the performance of their employees. A secret shopper is paid to shop, and then give an unbiased evaluation about the experience. Mystery shopping is utilized by retail stores, gas stations, restaurants, cell phone companies, and most chain stores.
Therefore, an excellent opportunity is available to make money part or full-time while shopping. This is a great job for stay-at-home moms and dads, retirees, students, or anyone that is looking for a fun way to earn extra income. Most secret shoppers are part time. However, some people have turned this into a full-time income.
Be careful not to fall for companies that charge a fee to find you jobs. There are currently several companies scamming people out of their hard-earned money. It will not cost you anything to sign up and start receiving jobs. So, do not pay anything to get started because it is not necessary. There are many websites where you can sign up for free.
To get started, it is as simple as registering online with businesses that are currently looking for secret shoppers. Make sure that you check your e-mail frequently because most of the time the early bird gets the worm. You probably received the same job that was sent to several other secret shoppers.
A computer, Internet service, and fax service, are typically required to get started. A digital camera may also be required for some assignments. Mystery shoppers generally earn $10-$15 per assignment. Fortunately, most assignments can be completed in a few minutes. You can get paid to eat at your favorite restaurant, watch a movie, shop at the Gap, pump gas at BP, or take vacation to the Bahamas. Some people secret shop just to get the free services.
Before accepting an assignment, make sure that you can complete it accurately. You do not want to tarnish your reputation. Like any business, you have to keep your employer happy. Take your time and read over the assignment to make sure you are capable of performing the requested services. Also, it is a good idea to schedule several jobs in one part of town if possible. This will save precious time and gas.
When you arrive at the business, be careful to make sure that you blend in with the other customers. The last thing that you want to do is tip off the employees. After the shop is over, make sure you take detailed notes. Only include the facts in your report. Do not include your personal opinions.
In summary, company mystery shopping, secret shopping, or mystery shopping made simple is a great part time job for students, retirees, stay at home moms or dads, or anyone that is looking for extra money. Mystery shoppers generally earn between $10-$15 per assignment and receive several free services. It is free to get started by simply signing up online for companies that are seeking secret shoppers. Most everyone shops anyway, so why not get paid while you are shopping?

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