This paper increases understanding of the accuracy of consumers' self-reports about using brands and categories. The researchers select television viewing as the category of usage firstly, due to the availability of robust panel data for validation of the claimed data (i.e. self-reported) and...

Perceptions of private label brands (PLBs) reside in consumer memory along with national brands (NBs). When a consumer engages in a choice situation, both PLBs and NBs rely on links to retrieval cues in consumer memory to give them a chance of purchase. This study examines the underlying...