Bubou gm assignment_crashcourseonreactivity
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The document summarizes the author's observations of stores in Yenagoa City, Nigeria. It describes the stores as standalone shops located at road intersections, ranging in size. Most stores have glass doors that are always closed, requiring manual opening. Air conditioned stores tended to be larger. Signage and billboards are not as prominent as in major cities. Store hours are typically until 10-11pm. Interiors have brighter colors with ceramic or flex flooring. Larger stores have higher ceilings but smaller stores can get hot. Salespeople are courteous though not uniformly dressed. Products are arranged by function with prices visible. The stores do not sell groceries or stay open 24 hours.
Bubou gm assignment_crashcourseonreactivity
- 1. STORES IN YENAGOA CITY, NIGERIA submitted by GORDON MONDAY BUBOU In Nigeria, except for a few cities like Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt , Kano and etc, there are no modern day shopping malls. The stores we have in my city, Yenagoa are standalone shops, littering nearly every road intersection. They come in different sizes and shapes. It is not in our culture to take photographs of people and places you don’t know. There is also the problem of security, so no store owner will allow you take photographs of his/her store. It pains me that I will not be able to present this assignment with colourful pictures while others will. Notwithstanding, I did my best to go round a little over six shops and this was what I observed. What I noticed before entering the store The doors to four of the stores where always closed, and they are glass doors, that are always closed and you have to open them manually. However, one had a security helping out customers. The other two had their doors open throughout their operating ours. (I think the need automatic doors that can open to customers when they get close). I noticed that the stores with closed doors were bigger, and they also had air-conditioning systems. The smaller stores did not have air-conditioning systems. You will never see those big billboards and signboards you will see in other major cities across the globe. However, one had very beautiful electronic signboard that welcomes visitors with the inscription, “Welcome to Sunky Supermarket, I hope you’ll Enjoy Your Stay…” that was kind of more attractive than the others.
- 2. I asked to know when exactly the stores close for business. The latest was 11:00pm. Most close around 10:00pm. The environment The stores generally had brighter shades of colours and that was kind of attractive. Five of the stores had ceramic tiles while one had floor-flex. Three of the stores were storey buildings: one was a two storey building and the other two were a single. Of course your expect lift. You walk up the stairs. In some, even the walk ways were crowed with items. Oh! I loved the one that had a very big mirror and was also clear of items. The bigger stores generally had high ceiling, although I cannot go as far saying very high. I think the higher the store, the spacious it looks and that gives one a sense of comfort. I must say the smaller stores are almost choking with the heat. I bet, a westerner will never return to such again. I honestly, did not hear any music coming out from any of the store I visited. Most of the stores are crowded with merchandise. I cannot also say the store were noisy, even though, I observed a lot of movement in one or two. Yea, I perceived that common fragrance of a locally made air freshener in four out of the six stores. One had a beautiful smell and the other, I can’t really say. I saw security men in only two of the stores. The others do not have. Personnel: One good thing about the store is that, it does not you long to contact a sales persons. They are almost at every corner of the stores and they are courteous. I never saw any sales person with uniform; you can only recognize them from the way they look at other very busy customers. Sometimes, you’ll mistakenly ask a fellow customer for assistance. There were many more male sales persons that females and they are within the age brackets of 18-35. Most of them dress casually.
- 3. Products: You always will see jewelleries and expensive cosmetics products in a glass show-case as once you enter a store. The cashiers are either by the right-hand or left-hand corner of the door. In fact, you see items labelled outside the doors for five of the stores. They try as much as possible to display items on shelves, but some are also displayed on the floor. Products are arranged by functions. There are no freebies. Once can easily see the prices of products because there are price tags. One store have moved a store further by bar-coding all its items. I learnt the only time the organise bonanzas is during Christmas. You normally see candies and sweets around the cash registers. Other things that I discovered I discovered that the stores were not selling groceries like fresh meat produce, fresh fruits and vegetables. There were also no supermalls. I was told none of the stores sells for 24hours because they did not see the need to.