Shopping habits depend more on your age group than anything else. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

 

Shopping habits depend more on your age group than anything else. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Why age defines theapproach towards shopping? 

·   A conventional belief that age is the driving factor that makes people embrace distinct shopping attitudes: young people go for fashionable clothes, new gadgets, while the people in middle-aged and  old-aged group and tend to focus on the needs of their families and budgets

·       The shopping forays of youngsters are  fueled by peers, public icons and are frequent, whereas that of older people is need-driven and occasional 

What other factors are more relevant 

·         The wealth: there is a clear demarcation between the affluent - passion driven or a hobby, the middle income  and low-income groups a means to fulfill the requirements,  and the  impoverished - an endeavor to fulfill basic needs. 

·         Availability of resources and circumstances is also influencing buying practices 

·         The attitude of being a spendthrift, or prudent spender it is rather an innate skill 

·         In contemporary times, people are adopting buying patterns that are in vogue.

·         With the technology developing and companies releasing upgrades regularly, people are embracing consumerist attitudes - use and throw, regardless of their age and economic background. 

·         Conventional and dynamic attitudes 

A question that never fails to intrigue even the highly acknowledged human behaviorists is, what is the motivation behind buying decisions of most consumers: is it the age or other factors. While some feel this propensity is fueled by age, others assert, it  stems from several attributes. 

If  one were to rely on the conventional belief that shopping patterns evolve with age, they would encounter the assumptions that the priorities, choice, frequency of visits to shopping centers, the intentions to possess something, and so on, alter greatly as one grows older. For instance, someone in their teens and early 20s are likely to be swayed by  peer pressure, the prevalent fashion, availability of time and the propensity to emulate public icons, to name a few, whereas those beyond these age groups remain unmoved by the former factors.

However, undeniably, one makes a decision to buy, or undertake a trip to a shopping district on the basis of their financial condition: the affluent have penchant to procure expensive commodities to satisfy their whims and fancies, while those hailing from middle and lower income groups tend to purchase occasionally and that also mostly to fulfill their necessities without upsetting their budgets. 

Similarly, availability of resources such as online, and circumstances - especially similar to the currently prevalent pandemic crisis - also have the potential to impact shopping behaviors, and persuade people to resort to a certain practice. To  exemplify, in the last 2 years since the outbreak of Convid majority of buyers, regardless of age,  have switched to e-portals like Amazon to meet all their needs.

Overall, even though age does have some effect on the propensity of shoppers, financial ability and presence of facilities along with the situation enjoy a more profound control over the inclination to shop.