... used by consumers. It also deepens our understanding of the boundary between rational search activities and the transition to the use of frequently flawed heuristics within the shopping process. The development of store brands to become a strategic totem for a retailer’s identity and quality...

...Vaughan Reimers; Fred Chao Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine the role of convenience in a recreational shopping trip. In an effort to address the shopping strip’s forfeiture of market share to the mall and the Internet, retail planners have utilised a variety of intervention...

...Geetha Mohan; Bharadhwaj Sivakumaran; Piyush Sharma Purpose – This paper aims to explore the process by which four store environment (music, light, employee, and layout) and two individual characteristics (shopping enjoyment tendency (SET) and impulse buying tendency (IBT)) influence impulse...

... customer satisfaction and repurchase intention, which is also central for online shopping behavior, is much more limited. More specifically, a number of potential mediating variables that are evident in the literature should be addressed. The literature is uncertain regarding potential mediating constructs...

... of these variables. Moreover, we use education, working status, income and time spent on grocery shopping as factors to further assess consumer's characteristics and as indicators of consumer's time pressure that could affect the level of involvement. It is quite plausible to assume that the more educated, those...

...Stanley Paliwoda; Scetla Marinova; Tanja Dmitrovic; Irena Vida Purpose This paper examines consumer motivations for shopping abroad and explores the role of demographic versus socio‐psychological factors in explaining the phenomenon of cross‐border shopping. Design/methodology/approach...

...Eun Young Kim; Youn‐Kyung Kim Shopping online for clothing products is gaining in popularity. This study identified the dimensions of online shopping attributes and predictors of the intention to purchase clothes, jewelry, or accessories based on online shopping attributes and demographic variables...

... indicate that the adverse effects of inaccurate color representation afflict not only online shopping sites, but also more traditional means of shopping for fashion products, such as retail stores and printed catalogs. The problem is actually more a matter of perception than representation, and this gives...

...Mark Brown; Nigel Pope; Kevin Voges Consumer selection of retail patronage mode has been widely researched by marketing scholars. Several researchers have segmented consumers by shopping orientation. However, few have applied such methods to the Internet shopper. Despite the widespread belief...

...Dawn Burton Postmodernism has provided valuable insights into the cultural significance of shopping and shopping sites in advanced societies. Despite their important contribution, postmodern accounts of shopping behaviour have predominantly focused on shopping in public spaces of malls and high...

...Francis Piron Retail leakages caused by an increasing number of outshopping to other countries has become a growing concern among retailers in border areas. This research seeks to examine the shopping behaviour and attitudes of Singaporeans in neighboring Malaysia and, specifically, the influence...

...Sydney Roslow; Tiger Li; J.A.F. Nicholls Explores seasonal differences in the purchase behaviour of shoppers in Cyprus. The analysis investigates situational factors and demographic/lifestyle attributes associated with consumers’ shopping behaviour in summer and winter. The situational factors...

...Christopher M. Moore Shopping Place and Identity is an eclectic, yet coherent work, and these features serve to illustrate the reality of the activity, meaning and significance of consumption within advanced economies. The text successfully interweaves the shopping mall with the process...

... activity for the future of retail marketing. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Retailing Internet Shopping United Kingdom Considerable attention has been focused on the Internet and its commercial potential for retailers. However, two key areas of confusion emerge for retailers; first, what...

... their shopping trips: store loyals more than others switched stores by OOS; and consumers with a small purchase amount per shopping trip were less likely to switch stores and more likely to postpone purchase. There also was a slight tendency for the consumer to spend less in the store during the OOS period...

... and cross‐cultural issues. Consumer behaviour Decision making Factor analysis Shopping As commercial global integration unfolds in the world’s marketplaces, decision making is becoming increasingly complex for consumers. The unprecedented abundance of choice and retail outlets creates a massive...

...Robert East; Wendy Lomax; Gill Willson; Patricia Harris Reports on the results from a consumer survey of shopping trips to supermarkets in England and Wales. Most people exhibit habits about when they do their main trip to the supermarket: 61 per cent have a usual day and 67 per cent a usual time...

... are prone to outshopping, specifically rural to rural outshopping. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Australia Consumer behaviour Demographics Income Population Retail trade Shopping ...

... economically undeveloped economy are considered with particular reference to two stores in Beijing. © MCB UP Limited 1989 China Management Retailing Shopping Supermarkets ...

... of price to housewives. © MCB UP Limited 1972 Pricing policy Product quality Grocery industry Shopping The effect of price cues on perceived product quality in a grocery shopping simulation by Donald Shawyer and Norman French University of Missouri, Columbia, USA and Anthony McGann...