Um estudo sobre estratégia de criação de valor em marketing para shopping centers

Abstract

In recent years, the way retail trade has been carried out has undergone major changes. With the emergence of the internet and e-commerce, with globalization and new marketing strategies, retailing has suffered consequences in terms of consumer habits, preferences and behavior. The shopping centers, perceived as important retail centers, were affected by these changes. In addition, the accelerated growth in the numbers of malls in large metropolises intensified competition between these centers, which ended up impacting on the volume of sales and the flow of consumers. By means of a theoretical survey and the association of a technique of mixed methods, with the application of a qualitative research carried out with executives of the sector and also the conduction of a quantitative study done with shoppers, this study analyzes the impact of these transformations on the creation of value in shopping malls, aiming to identify the main strategies of this sector in the current scenario for value generation in shopping malls marketing. The results of the quantitative survey shows a consumer who chooses to visit the mall that he/she likes the most and closest to his or her residence; that, in addition to consuming, he/she enjoys going to the mall to eat, stroll and perform leisure activities; and that he/she values aspects such as location, access, security, diversity of stores, variety of food options and items related to the comfort of the environment. This consumer also does not perceive some kind of communication from the mall to him and often buys products on-line, mainly due to the convenience, agility and diversity of options at this disposal. Half of the respondents decreased their visits to the mall after using e-commerce. The analysis of the qualitative study, in turn, shows that the interviewees suggest that the shopping malls become places of coexistence and experience, providing customers, in addition to traditional stores, a diversity of space options for food, leisure and services. With the objective of developing value creation strategies in a shopping center, both researches converge to the need to reinvent shopping malls so that harmony and partnership between physical commerce and the digital universe can be developed