My comment: Taiwanese are remarkable for being unflappable. People generally
do not laugh at another--if they do, they do that behind the back of the
subject. In any event, Taiwanese do not care what others people think, even
if they are laughed at; in other words, they will do it again.
(6) miltownkid, Grocery Shopping Taiwan Style. May 10, 2007.
http://miltownkid.com/2007/05/10/grocery-shopping-taiwan-style/
Note: The author misspelled. Not McGuyver but
MacGyver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver
("The story arc of MacGyver follows the intelligent, optimistic, laid-back,
resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. He
prefers a non-violent resolution to fighting where possible, and refuses to
use a gun")
(7) Hypermarkets battle for hearts and minds of island's consumers. Taiwan
Today, Feb. 14, 2010.
http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=29898&CtNode=427
("Taiwan's consumers choose traditional markets over hypermarkets when
shopping for fresh food. * * * wet markets are still many people's ideal
spots for shopping. Eighty-two percent of people stated they go to
traditional markets for fresh meat, vegetables and fruit; among them, 43
percent remarked that the quality was better, and 27 percent said that the
markets are closer to their homes.")
(8) Bridgette, Thanksgiving in Taiwan. Aug. 20, 2002.
http://www.epinions.com/content_2816647300
(9) Taiwan retailing in transition: a boom in western-style commerce.
AdExporter, May 1, 1994.
http://www.allbusiness.com/agriculture-forestry-fishing-hunting/442506-1.html
(10) Sammy, 上班媽媽省時必備．網購一家親. Aug. 17, 2008.
http://sammy.zh-tw.org/archives/907
My comment:
(a) Sammy is the nick name of Sam, which in turn is short for "Samantha."
(b) The subtitle ("全職雙子媽的台東新生活，開心ing！") of the blog ("Sammy’
s Talk") betrays the family lives in 台東--the county or its county seat.
(1) Jane Lu Hsu and Wei-Hsien Chang, Market segmentation of fresh meat
shoppers in Taiwan. The International Review of Retail, Distribution and
Consumer Research, 12: 423-436, October 2002.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713770668&db=all
My comment: Full text is not free.
(2) Kamhon Kan and Tsu-Tan Fu, Analysis of Housewives’ Grocery Shopping;
Behavior in Taiwan: An Application of the
Poisson Switching Regression. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics,
29: 397-407, December 1997.
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/15064/1/29020397.pdf
My comment: Disregarding mathematics, "Results" section of the paper can be
summarized as:
(a) "the value of time has a negative effect on shopping frequency for both
working and nonworking groups of housewives. * * * as wage rate increases, a
working housewife will allocate proportionally less household production time for
market work."
(b) "Both working and nonworking housewives go shopping more frequently if
they have a bigger family. However, while working housewives are not so
responsive to demographic characteristics, such as their age and to the
number of children under the age of 12 in the household (CHILD), for
nonworking housewives, shopping frequency decreases with age and increases
with CHILD."
(c) "Previous studies suggest that households with working housewives tend
to substitute food consumed away from home for food consumed at home. This
is borne out by the present results. If a household with a working housewife
ever eats out more than once in a usual week, the frequency of grocery
shopping decreases significantly. However, for households with nonworking
housewives, the effect of eatout is not statistically significant. The statistical
insignificance of eatout indicates that eating out is not for the purpose of time
saving. Rather, eating out is perhaps a leisure activity for households with a
nonworking housewife, so that whether or not they eat out more than once a
week does not significantly affect the frequency of grocery shopping."
(d) "Neither the presence of chronically sick household members nor the
income of the husband in the household affects the shopping frequency for
working or for nonworking housewives."
(e) "A working housewife has a significantly lower shopping frequency if she
has more years of education.* * * better educated housewives tend to work
more, so that less time is spent on household production."
(f) "Other things being equal, an urban working housewife shops more frequently
than a working housewife who resides within the suburbs. Conversely, a
nonworking housewife shops more frequently if her household is located in the
suburban area (CITY). The opposite effect of CITY for these respondent groups is
attributable to the different time constraints faced by working and nonworking
housewives. In the urban area, shopping facilities are often more numerous
and are located closer to residential areas, which makes shopping trips less time
consuming and affords working housewives the opportunity to shop more
frequently. This may imply that urban working housewives spend less time per
grocery shopping trip and make more trips per month, but use less time per
month on grocery shopping than their suburban counterparts."