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Some people just don’t buy shopping
A&M researcher finds ways to reach anti-shoppers
By Polly Bell
Reporter
Shaun Gianetti shops only three
times a year — at Christmas, on his
wife’s birthday and on his wedding
anniversary.
The 26-year-old free-lance artist
from Bryan even puts off those trips
until the last possible moment.
Gianetti belongs to an elite group
of “anti-shoppers,” who make up 15
to 25 percent of the respondents in
shopping studies.
Dr. James McNeal, a Texas A&M
marketing professor, is researching
this atypical category of consumers.
He says the numbers are significant
enough to warrant retailers’ atten
tion.
Because Gianetti hates shopping,
he says his wife makes all the house
hold purchases. She even buys his
shoes — the same brand he has worn
for three years because he knows
they’ll fit.
“I’m real tight,” Gianetti says. “I
don’t like to spend my money. I like
to know I’m getting a good deal, so I
“Traditionally, women are supposed to love to shop,
but as my career demands become heavier, it’s the last
thing I want to do. It's a burden. ”
— Yvonne Kosolow, independent insurance broker.
feel like I have to comparison shop,
and I hate doing that.”
Aggressive clerks turn off this re
luctant shopper, and if they offer to
assist him, he refuses.
“I don’t like the feeling of a vul
ture wanting me to buy something,”
he says.
McNeal says that for some, shop
ping evokes feelings of suspicious
ness and of being threatened. He
adds that anti-shoppers often think
prices are too high, ads are mislead
ing and clerks are dishonest.
“These people just don’t like to go
to the store,” McNeal says, “and
there’s no simple reason.”
For others, an aversion to shop
ping has more to do with time and
convenience.
Yvonne Kosolow, 47, an indepen
dent insurance broker, says she
never shops for fun.
“Traditionally, women are sup
posed to love to shop, but as my ca
reer demands become heavier, it’s
the last thing I want to do,” she says.
“It’s a burden.
“My business is very demanding,
and I want to focus on that. It’s in
credibly frustrating to have to take
time to buy clothes and computers.”
Kosolow has anti-shopping ten
dencies, but unlike the anti-shoppers
McNeal identifies, her reasons for
not shopping are practical rather
than psychological.
McNeal says anti-shoppers avoid
stores and minimize shopping by
asking friends or family members to
pick things up for them, hiring per
sonal shoppers, ordering goods
Counseling program offers
help with eating disorders
from catalogs or over the telephoiif
or using convenience stores lotm.
cessities.
With a significant number ofpo
tential customers avoiding ife
stores, retailers may be missing ot
on a considerable amount of but
ness, McNeal says. For this reasm
retailers need to understand ait
shoppers, he says.
Retailers should know that ant I
shoppers are not moved by crcdi
price or advertising appeals. Ttiev
not impulse buyers and persou
sales efforts offend them.
Anti-shoppers also react r
vely to changes in products,
aging and location of merchandtt
McNeal says.
Since these shoppers often dtl
gate their shopping to others, i
suggests retailers market their pros
nets to a third party, promotcj|
them as “sure to please.”
He adds that retailers whom
the anti-shopper’s business she.,
allow undamaged goods to bets
turned and make shopping m
convenient.
By Matt Diedrich
Reporter
A counseling program for victims
of anorexia and bulimia has been
helping to save the lives of Texas
A&M students for four years.
The program, offered by A&M’s
Student Counseling Service, relies
on group therapy to treat students
with the potentially fatal eating dis
orders.
Cases of both eating disorders are
widespread on college campuses,
said Dr. Judy McConnell, a psychol
ogist for the Student Counseling
Service.
Anorexia, the less common but
more dangerous of the two, is willful
self-starvation in pursuit of weight
loss. It usually affects teenage
women and can cause extreme
weight loss, heart problems and
eventual death.
“(Anorexics) spend all their time
concerned about their weight,
watching their calories and overex
ercising,” McConnell said. “They are
very concerned with what other peo
ple think about them and their ap
pearance.”
Bulimia, which most often affects
college-age women, operates on a
binge-purge cycle.
When under stress or worry, bu
limics may overeat (binge), then ei
ther force themselves to vomit or use
an excessive amount of laxatives
(purge).
The binge-purge cycle may occur
as infrequently as once every few
weeks or as often as 12 times a day,
McConnell said.
Bulimia often starts as a dieting
shortcut, she said, but can eventually
cause severe tooth decay, ulcers in
the esophagus and damage to the di
gestive system.
Bulimia, which may affect as
many as 20 percent of college
women, can also cause a chemical
imbalance that can lead to heart
trouble and death.
Both anorexia and bulimia are
usually symptoms of other problems
like depression, McConnell said.
“It’s easier to focus on your weight
than it is to focus on the other prob
lems,” she said. “It’s easier to say, ‘If
I were just thinner, everything
would be fine.’
Anorexics and bulimics tend to be
“It s easier to focus on
your weight ... to say, ‘IIT
were just thinner, every
thing would be line. ’ ”
— Dr. Judy McConnell,
counseling psychologist.
overachievers and people with low
self-esteem, McConnell said.
“They’re always trying to please
other people,” she said, “so there
fore, they don’t express — or don’t
know how to express — what they
want.”
McConnell said society’s preoccu
pation with appearance is partly to
blame for recent increases in eating
disorders cases.
“Our society focuses so much on
how you appear,” she said. “They’ve
set up some pretty unrealistic stan
dards.”
McConnell said early recognition
of an eating disorder is crucial.
“The sooner you get help for the
problem,” she said, “the easier it is to
change.”
The group approach used by the
Student Counseling Service is the
most effective way of treating ano
rexics and bulimics, McConnell said.
“They’re around other people
who are just like themselves,” she
said. “They don’t feel so alone. They
can confront each other on their
thinking patterns, and they won’t let
each other get away with as much.”
The program consists of weekly
group meetings conducted by Mc
Connell and Dr. Virgie Nolle, also a
counseling psychologist. In the
course of the 90-minute meeting,
group members are asked to discuss
personal problems ihey may be hav
ing. The group then tries to deter
mine the origins of the problems
and ways of dealing with them, Mc
Connell said.
First-time group members are not
obligated to participate in dis
cussion.
“We don’t push them to say any
thing the first time or two,” McCon
nell said. “It’s up to them. We just try
to help them feel as comfortable as
possible.”
The meetings also involve teach
ing students how to cope with stress,
how to develop a positive self-con
cept, and how to be more assertive,
she said.
Another positive aspect of the
group approach is the fact that the
students are able to lend each other
support, McConnell said. Students
can call each other, for example, if
they need someone to talk to in or
der to avoid going on a binge.
Treatment of people with eating
disorders is a long-term process, Mc
Connell said.
“(An eating disorder) is a problem
that takes a lot of time to get over,”
she said. “It involves changing your
whole way of thinking about your
self and the world in general.
“(The program) helps people look
at their problems and start to make
some changes in their behavior.”
The program is open to any stu
dent enrolled at A&M. Students
should arrange for an initial screen
ing interview with a counselor by
calling 845-4427 or going to the Stu
dent Counseling Service’s office in
300 YMCA.
Local lawye
says NBC film
inaccurate
BRYAN (AP) — An Ml
docu-drama about a formti
Bryan resident’s custody fightfe
his daughter was a highly ficto I
nalized movie, said Bryan atior
ney John Hawtrey.
"It brushed up against lit
truth in a couple of instances^
mostly it was just fiction,’'Ha*
trey said.
Hawtrey criticized the numt
for emphasizing the racial tsst*
of Linda Pahnore’s remarriageto
a black man rather than focusii;
on the custody suit.
The docu-drama, "A Fightfe:
Jenny,” revolved around thectfr
tody battle between Palmoreane
her ex-husband, AnthonySidoo
When the two divorced inflot
ida in 1980, Palmore hi
awarded custody of their onli
child, Melanie.
1 wo years af ter the divorced lepj
doti tried to get custody ofto
daughter, saying his wifewasit
gle< ting Melanie and havingrdrlffic
t m >n > with a inimbet of men.
A Tampa circuit jud
awarded custody of thechildto
Sidoti, but the Supreme Coun
ruled the decision invalid in Apti
1984.
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the argument invalid in Apti ig
1984, declaring, "The Cons®
lion cannot control such
dices, but neither can it total At
them.” [fiiiii
Shortly after the verdict,Sidot
moved to Bryan where he woiitii
as an air-conditioning repaintm
He also had his lawyers pursiit
custody again.
Hawtrey said he expects Pain
ore to sign papters within thentl
month giving custody of Meta
to Sidoti, but leaving her withtitt
tation rights.
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