Informative Essay About Themed Consumer Environment

Themed Consumer Environment Analysis I have not been to many themed environments in my lifetime for many reasons including financial, time, and travel constraints as well as the fact that my family hold the belief that we dont need to go anywhere grand to have a good time. The emphasis has always been placed on simplicity and quality time spent with family and friends. We used to go snow skiing many years ago so my recollection is hazy. We go camping every summer which is almost the opposite of a consumer environment. However, a couple of years ago, for my mother s birthday, we did manage to make a trip to Arlington, Texas to watch a Texas Ranger baseball game. This is a huge consumer environment which correlates well with everything I have read and learned during this course and so it will be the focus of this analysis. The 270-acre Globe Life Park in Arlington which opened in April of 1994, was a successor of the Arlington Stadium which closed that same year. I vaguely remember goi ng to the old one a couple years before it closed. With the new park, the capacity increased by about 6,000 and many more areas were made available for shops, restaurants, new technology, suites, and other means of consumption. As George Ritzer details modern athletic facilities further in A Tour of the New Means of Consumption, â€Å"Although these stadiums often resemble earlier versions and even seek to copt them in many ways, they also have a number of innovations. For example, they all