consumer shopping pattern

H&M arrives at a time when consumer shopping patterns have changed markedly in the United States.

Research consumer shopping patterns and observe traffic within shopping centers and between retail outlets.

"It took a bit of time for consumer shopping patterns to return, because shortly after the event, people were mainly buying necessity items," said Scott Krugman, a spokesman for the National Retail Foundation, a trade association based in Washington.

In addition, retail chain membership cards (issued mostly by grocery stores and specialty "big box" retail stores such as sporting equipment, office supply, or pet stores) use barcodes to uniquely identify consumers, allowing for customized marketing and greater understanding of individual consumer shopping patterns.

Faced with a change in consumer shopping patterns, the consolidation of the department store industry, the existence of too many malls fragmenting the greater Los Angeles retail marketplace, lack of highway access and competition from the neighboring Nordstrom-anchored South Bay Galleria that opened in 1985, Del Amo began to suffer.