...Liangchao Xue; Christopher J. Parker; Cathy Hart Purpose Fashion retail has faced immense changes in the rapid development of e-commerce, creating significant uncertainty about physical stores’ future. To improve the consumer shopping experience and increase sales revenue for fashion retailers...

...Zsuzsa Deli-Gray; Marie-Pierre Pinto; Cécile McLaughlin; Roland Szilas Purpose The purpose of the paper is to discover how very young (three- to six-year-old) children describe their “actual” shopping process and how they characterise an “ideal” shopping. The perceived role of new technological...

... their parents spend in retail stores and that children also exert influence on their parents’ purchase decisions and behaviour. Retail store managers rarely provide any entertainment for children and involve them in the shopping experience and even when they do, they fail to do it in the right way. Also, store...

... the importance consumers assign to spatial convenience, measure how consumers perceive shopping malls and shopping strips (also referred to as the downtown area, central business district, Main Street or the High Street) in relation to it, and compare them in their provision of it. Design/methodology...

... convenience (see Table I). A review of existing definitions of department store convenience reveals the following problems: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Convenience Shopping Patronage Department store The combined effect of dual income families and longer working...

... as the two sample sets were comparable in their demographics and online shopping behavior, yet the result may be generalized to a limited extent. Practical implications The results suggest that retailing strategy may vary in response to cultural differences. In East Asian countries that share Confucian...

... accessibility, image, and kindness of salespersons (Lombart and Jeandrain, 2003). Based on literature, these are examples of specific stores and products' categories that attract the most browsers (See Table I). Recreational or entertaining shopping experience is considered as fun and pleasurable shopping...

...Rodney C. Runyan; Irene M. Foster; Kelly Green Atkins; Youn‐Kyung Kim Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain a better conceptualization and measurement of smart shopping. The specific objectives are to: investigate consumers' perceptions of the term smart shopping; develop a measure of smart...

...Yuanfeng Cai; Randall Shannon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify underlying personal values that determine the mall shopping behaviour of Chinese consumers and to propose shopping intention as an additional mediator that enhances the value‐behaviour link. Design/methodology...

..., as well as their future store behaviour (Smith and Burns, 1996). Sense of touch Visual and olfactory sensory cues Shoppers' touching behaviour Point‐of‐purchase Field experiment Quasi‐experimental design Shopping Sensory perception Sweden © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012...

... that consumers with different levels of OSL have differing evaluations of retail store elements, shopping value and subsequent shopping behaviours. Design/methodology/approach To examine the relationship between OSL and consumer perceptions and behaviours, interviews were conducted with retail shoppers...

... about apparel fit. Internet shopping trust and consumer's actual body size have been considered as moderating variables, respectively. Design/methodology/approach Three types of web sites were developed for the experiment. Participants were recruited by a survey firm, explored the web sites...

...Iryna Pentina; Aliaksandr Amialchuk; David George Taylor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify categories of online shopping experiences and web site functions facilitating these experiences, and to test the effect of those experiences on browser satisfaction, conversion...

.... Originality/value Retailers increasingly use in‐store events to provide customers with a unique shopping experience and differentiate themselves from competitors. The present paper highlights the important role of events as communication measures in retailing by empirically investigating the impact...

...Jane Boyd Thomas; Cara Peters Purpose The purpose of the present study is to explore the collective consumption rituals associated with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and one of the largest shopping days in the USA. Design/methodology/approach The research design for this study...

... consumers leave their communities to shop, dollars flow to outside communities. This may mean that even if a rural community is gaining jobs and industry, the local economy may not prosper because the income earned in those new jobs is spent elsewhere. Extant rural retailing research has mainly focused...

...Jung‐Hwan Kim; Rodney Runyan Purpose This study aims to investigate how density conditions caused by multiple kiosks in shopping mall walkways affect shoppers' shopping outcomes based on psychological reactance theory and behavioural constraint theory. Design/methodology/approach...

... not anticipated, the broad themes of superstore power and market regulation still command attention 30 years on. Originality/value Through reconsidering 30 years of retail change, the paper highlights that with time how do you shop has come to pose at least as interesting a question as where...

...David Bennison; Gary Warnaby; John Pal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an examination of the current state of local shopping provision (LSP) in the UK, identifying and evaluating approaches to maintaining its vitality and viability. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

... shoppers have different price and brand‐user image congruency perceptions for local and foreign brands. There have been a number of studies looking at country‐of‐origin effects on shopping decisions (Bilkey and Nes, 1982 ; Peterson and Jolibert, 1995 ; Okechuku and Onyemah, 1999 ; Samiee et...