Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the experiences of women who were engaged in a competitive retail shopping event. Design/methodology/approach – This study employed the discovery‐oriented grounded theory approach, in order to interpret field data from...

This paper details the conceptual and empirical development of a 10-item scale to measure consumer competitive arousal (CCAr). Consumers experience competitive arousals in a wide variety of consumption contexts. Though the subject has been of interest in several recent studies, neither a...