Immigrant Grocery-Shopping Behavior: Ethnic Identity versus Accessibility

Wang, Lu; Lo, Lucia

doi:10.1068/a3833

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“…They perform activities such as housework, child-rearing, looking after aging parents, and purchasing necessities for their families as part of their gender role in many countries. Although the number of women working outside of the home has increased, some studies show that most married women are still responsible for the domestic duties and childcare in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and even in Europe [8][9][10][11][12][13]. The second reason for choosing married women is related to the phenomenon above.…”

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“…However, such a local activity is actually an important part of our everyday lives and sometimes not as simple as Christaller states. For example, Wang and Lo examined the preferences of Chinese immigrants for the fast-growing Chinese supermarkets versus IMETI 2017 the competing mainstream supermarket chains and found that ethnic affinity had a stronger effect on immigrants' choice of shopping venue than economic rationality such as considerations of accessibility [8]. The authors therefore claimed that grocery shopping has socio-cultural meaning for immigrants and that the social use of ethnic shopping spaces indicates that immigrants are not only consumers in ethnic shopping places but also participants in this unique ethnic retail environment.…”

Section: Neighbourhood Units Daily Shopping and Married Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, we assume that married women's everyday lives are constrained by their occupation and family life cycle according to the theoretical arguments of family life cycle [8,[15][16][17][18]. We define the categories of occupation as 'career women' and 'housewives'.…”

Section: Individual and Family Attributesmentioning

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Necessity for diversity of commercial facilities for daily shopping in residential planninga

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Yen²

2018

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Abstract. Since the 1990s, the government administrations have thought that supermarkets could replace traditional retail markets as the commercial facilities for daily shopping in Taiwan. However, traditional retail markets remained prosperous. This paper aims to investigate the followings: 1) whether traditional retail markets still play an important role in residents' daily shopping and 2) whether supermarkets and traditional retail markets are actually complementary rather than competitive as commercial facilities for daily shopping. The examination is based on the data regarding married women's daily shopping behaviours in a planned residential area in Taipei from a questionnaire carried out in 2007. Several things are concluded below. First, consumers do not definitely choose the new types of facilities for daily shopping. Second, supermarkets in residential areas may be complementary to traditional retail markets in residents' daily shopping. Third, traditional retail market plays a role beyond acting as the exchange space for goods. Fourth, even though cars are popular in Taiwan, married women still prefer to conduct their daily shopping inside or nearby their neighbourhood unit by walking. This paper suggests it is necessary to maintain diversity rather than to anticipate or limit the type of commercial facilities available for daily shopping in residential planning.

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Necessity for diversity of commercial facilities for daily shopping in residential planninga

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Yen²

2018

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“…Willigers, Floor, and van Wee (2007) incorporated a Box-Cox function for the cost function in the Hansen accessibility measure and used this to examine location choices for offices. Wang and Lo (2007) developed a measure of relative Hansen accessibility to examine immigrant grocery-shopping behavior. Guagliardo (2004) reviewed studies of spatial accessibility to primary healthcare, describing the use of Hansen measures of accessibility and extensions to the original formulation.…”

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A Use-Based Measure of Accessibility to Linear Features to Predict Urban Trail Use

Ottensmann

Lindsey

2008

JTLU

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e standard Hansen measure of accessibility is extended to provide a use-based measure of accessibility reflecting the elasticity of use with respect to the level of provision of facilities. is is further extended to provide a measure of accessibility to linear features, such as trails (as opposed to features at point locations such as parks and libraries). Results from a survey on the use of urban trails in Indianapolis, Indiana are used to test the ability of this accessibility measure to predict trail use. e use-based measure of accessibility to linear features provides better predictions of use and more consistent estimates of the effects of distance and level of facility provision on trail use.

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“…However, immigrant consumer behaviour is a relatively under researched phenomenon and there is little work that explores the reactions of immigrants to developing forms of retailing in the UK (Wang and Lo, 2007). This paper explores the extent of any interconnectedness between ethnic identity and consumption, through a consideration of the food shopping experiences of south Asian immigrants to Britain in the period 1947 to 1975.…”

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Ethnicity and Consumption

Hamlett

Bailey

Alexander

et al. 2008

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This paper reviews the literature that explores the relationship between ethnic identities and food consumption, with particular reference to business management studies. It focuses on the food shopping practices of south Asians in Britain in the period 1947 to 1975, to illustrate the need for more historically contextualised studies that can provide a more nuanced exploration of any interconnections between ethnic identity and shopping behaviour. The paper draws on a reasonably long standing interest in ethnicity and consumption in marketing studies, and explores the conceptual use of acculturation within this literature. The arguments put forward are framed by recent interdisciplinary studies of the broader relationship between consumption and identity, which stress the importance of contextualizing any influence of ethnic identifications through a wider consideration of other factors including societal status, gender and age, rather than give it singular treatment. The paper uses a body of empirical research drawn from recent oral histories, to explore how these factors informed everyday shopping practices among south Asians in Britain. It examines some of the shopping and wider food provisioning strategies adopted by early immigrants on arrival in Britain. It considers the interaction between the south Asian population and the changing retail structure, in the context of the development of self service and the supermarket. Finally, it demonstrates how age, gender and socio economic status interacted with ethnic identities to produce variations in shopping patterns.

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Immigrant Grocery-Shopping Behavior: Ethnic Identity versus Accessibility

Cited by 73 publications

References 45 publications

Necessity for diversity of commercial facilities for daily shopping in residential planninga

Necessity for diversity of commercial facilities for daily shopping in residential planninga

A Use-Based Measure of Accessibility to Linear Features to Predict Urban Trail Use

Ethnicity and Consumption

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