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Purpose: This paper identifies those attributes of created and evolved retail agglomeration formats that have a substantial impact on overall attractiveness from the consumers’ point of view. From an agglomeration management perspective primary areas of concern are identified and suggestions...
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to identify store format attributes that impact on store format choice when consumers conduct fill-in or major trips to buy groceries. By doing so, we take intoconsideration that consumers patronise multiple (store based) formats depending on the shopping...
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Purpose – The last ten years have seen a gradual withdrawal of retail facilities frommany local areas and the consequent growth of ‘shopping deserts’, resulting in socialand health disbenefits. This paper examines the potential for e-shopping to fill thevacuum and to assist disadvantaged...
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Purpose – This paper examines the purchase intentions of online retail consumers,segmented by their purchase orientation.Design/methodology/approach – An e-mail/web survey was addressed to a consumer panelconcerning their online shopping experiences and motivations, n = 396.Findings – It...
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The emergence of the Internet brought changes to traditional Word-of-Mouth Communication (WOM). Consumers are able to share and exchange opinions with anyone in the world, while WOM has customarily resulted from face-to-face relationships (Huang & Chen, 2006). Online portals allow individuals to...
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While hotels come up with various discount strategies to attract consumers, especially during a recession, both hotels and consumers seem to favor dynamic pricing. Previous studies also indicated that price discounts give consumers not only monetary benefits but also positive emotional...
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The objectives of this study are to contribute to the understanding of consumer behaviour, and to investigate the existence of brand loyalty in the less developed countries. The study attempts to fill the gap in literature on consumer behaviour and consumer characteristics in the less developed...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a model which structures and links different types of efficient consumer response (ECR) measures; it does so by considering the use of both quantitative or ‘hard’ and qualitative or ‘soft’ measures in ECR, emphasizing the importance and...
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This paper attempts to contribute to a more thorough understanding of the on-site (in vivo) evaluation of retail agglomerations once shoppers have already made their destination choices. To address this issue, a modification of more conventional concepts of retail attractiveness that considers...
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