discussion A

Members of group A discussed attracting customers to their arcade. Recently, a department store was built and sales of some stores in the arcade lowerd, so they have to think about attracting coutomers.

<About members>
Mariko: She is 37 and doesn't any children. Her hobby is listening to music. She works at a clothing store.
Sakiko: She divorced with a man and has children. She works at a liquor shop. She believes in Jobo Shinshu.
Chihiro: She is 28 and works at a candy shop. Her hoby is a flower arrangement.
Yousaku: He is 54, Korean, and has three children. He works at a vegetable shop. His hobby is fishing.
Atsushi: He is Taiwanese and works at a noodle shop.

<Important points of the duscussion>
Mariko: She recommended to make discount cards that customers can get one points a day and the deadline is one month. In this case, customers have to go to the arcade to buy something.

Yousaku: He recommended to give customers gift cards which is 500 yen off and for all shops in the arcade. If customers buy something which is higher than 2000 yen, they can get one gift card. In this case, even if a customer buys something which is 5000 yen, he can get only one gift card.

Sakiko: She suggested to hold a summer festival which has a shooting game, goldfish scooping and so on. The aim is to attract many people and get them to know various shops in the arcade.

Chihiro: She suggested to make a handmade original mascot of the arcade. It enables for customers to get the mascot by a gift card. In this case, it costs to make the handmade mascot.

<What the outcome was>
The members desided to hold a summer festival to attract many customers.

<My opinion>
I think the members should have used their identities. Yousaku is Korean and Yousaku is Taiwanese, so they can start a language class. In addition, Chihiro's hobby is a flower arrangement, so she can start a class of it. If many housewives go their classes at noon, vegitable shops can attract customers by a sale at noon. Also, it's good for restaurants to give a discount for students. Moreover, if there are few customers in a liquor shop at noon, it would be possible for the shop to change to a cafe to attract housewives who like chatting and customers who want to study drinking coffee.     

<How effective the discussion was>
I think it was good to express their own opinion not just agree with other's idea without thinking something deeply.

<Has it could have been better>
If the group members speak more aloud, citizens can catch words in detail. In addition, I think the members should very often ask citizens a question about some problems. Moreover, they didn't solve a problem that some neighbors got angry with noise of a summer festival once. I think they should have solved this problem.