Harrods/Selfridges/Liberty

 Harrod/Selfridges/Liberty stroll around the stores

By: David Cianci

Organizational Culture Concepts within the stores

When analyzing UK culture as a variable, I have noticed a cause-and-effect relationship while walking around these stores. The article discusses how it is easy to predict and thus cause specific outcomes. Since I have been dressing up nicely to go to these stores and also be surrounded by other people that are dressed up to par if not better than I dressed, than it is reasonable to predict that while I am in the UK, I will make more of an effort to dress better to maintain the standard of dress that people in the UK dress to, especially in the stores I visited. 

Here is a picture of me dressed up as how I imagined a classic Londoner

Observations of stores in America and The UK

I noticed that in the US, more of a value in shopping is focused on free things such as buy one get one free deal, or free shipping. In the UK, I asked one store attendant how quickly I could get a product shipping to the US if I wanted it and they said less than 72 hours. In the UK, it seems that they place more of a premium on quick and reliable delivery service than free items. In the US, the pricing of items seems to be more important to the shopper than in the UK. Loyalty toward specific brands from citizens in the US seems to be more prominently found than in the UK. 

Here is an up close picture of the wooden architecture I took while in Liberty