The current generation of teenagers in Slovakia was born into the world of shopping malls, they have become an integral part of their lifestyle. The paper focuses on teenagers (13-19 years) in shopping malls. In this paper, we assess the perceptions of teenagers (n=1965) who shop and spend their leisure time in shopping malls in Bratislava. The research results show that the proportion of urban teenagers spending leisure time in shopping malls is high (90%) and approximately 60% like spending leisure time in shopping malls. The analysis points to the fact that shopping malls are a suitable place for socialising and meeting friends and peers. We identified statistically significant relationship between motivation of teenagers to spend leisure time in the shopping mall and their demographic, social and economic characteristics. The so-called „mall junkies” also coexists among teenagers in shopping malls. This is a relatively large group of urban teenagers for whom shopping malls are places where they like to spend their leisure time without parental supervision and provide them with a place to socialise and meet friends in the first place. Shopping in shopping malls is often irrelevant to them. Their primary interest is socialising with friends, it is important to „flex” for many of them or they are considered to be „hypebeasts”.
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The paper focuses on the identification and classification of community gardens in the Bratislava. It concerns a pilot study focused on community gardens in Bratislava (Slovakia). Community gardens in a post-socialist city can be considered as a modern phenomenon despite the fact that urban gardening was present in the city even during the communist regime in the form of allotments gardens and garden colonies. The main methods used to research community gardens include a questionnaire survey of members of community gardens and semi-structured interviews with administrators of community gardens. Different classification criteria (location, size, number of members, and ownership) are used in the paper to identify community gardens. Although the primary function of community gardens in Bratislava is the food production, formation of communities also plays an important role.
The future success, vitality and viability of urban shopping areas in Slovakia have attracted considerable attention from academics and policymakers alike over the last few years. This paper reports the current state of the urban retail environment in Bratislava (Slovakia) as a result of various transition waves that reflect its changes over a forty-four year period (1967 – 2011). The outcome of this paper is the identification of concentric zones with the highest rates of changes based on analysis of old and new retail data from both temporal and spatial aspects. In addition to this, it also offers a variety of approaches to measuring the change of urban retail environment in a post-communist city.
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Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted daily activities, which led to a change in consumer shopping behaviour as well. The aim of this paper is to analyse how shopping behaviour of consumers has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia. Two phases of an omnibus survey of shopping behaviour were realized (before COVID-19, January 2018 and during COVID-19 pandemic, November 2020, June 2021). The research indicates that consumption patterns changed before and during the pandemic. The majority of Slovak consumers purchased their food at large stores before and during the pandemic. The pandemic resulted in panic shopping among a third of consumers in Slovakia. About more than tenth of Slovak consumers used online shopping more often than before pandemic.
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