Compare And Contrast Weekend And Goodwill

I chose to compare the stores Weekends and Goodwill. I spent around thirty to forty-five minutes in each store pretending to browse around and look as If I was a shopper myself. I didn’t want the shoppers to notice a man walking around the store taking notes on people and their interactions, as it would taint distort the results. I acted as if I was texting and took notes on my phone to preserve the natural interaction between customer and employee. Goodwill and Weekends were on complete opposite sides of the spectrum in price and people.
Weekends is a high-end retail store with many designer brands that many people simply cannot afford. The store attracts a high-class clientele that is willing to spend a considerable amount of money. While Goodwill provides customers with secondhand clothes that other people find undesirable and decide to donate. The material culture in …show more content…
There was many mid thirties to forties adults in both stores with the occasional senior citizen but there was a much younger crowd at Goodwill that was not present at Weekends. I was the youngest person to enter Weekends excluding mothers with children. I almost felt out of place because I was the only teenager in that store. Weekends doesn’t necessarily carry the clothes for a young college student and the prices certainly don’t attract a young crowd on a budget. While at a Goodwill a flood of teenagers and early twenties men and women shopped. Race was also varied greatly at both stores. Although Boulder is a predominately white area, at Weekends I noticed all of the shoppers were White. Not once in the thirty minutes I was there was there one person of a different race. Goodwill on the other hand still had a majority of white shoppers but I noticed five Hispanic shoppers, one Asian shopper, and three black shoppers. Although that is not a huge diversity compared to the countless white shoppers it was far more diverse than