Emotional shops

2008

Nowadays, shops are not anymore places for consumption but micro-worlds of individual and social life. Selling acquires many and various meanings and the shopping center becomes a cultural and spiritual center. The choise of a brand is not anymore a choise of consumption but a lifestyle. Many elements concur in defining the communicative strategies of selling (complex corporate image [1]): advertising, logo, marketing, design of objects, shop windows, promotional events. And all of them seem to become values of life: claim is a motto (“Impossible is nothing” by Adidas); the logo is an identification mark for the consumer-customer (‘swoosh’ by Nike is tattooed on the skin); the testimonials …