Retailers often organize at least part of their assortment by displaying complementary products from different product categories together (e.g., a pair of pants with a shirt) rather than grouping items by product type (e.g., a pair of pants with other pants). However, little is known about how...

Market orientation is positively associated with performance of dealers in terms of customer service quality, growth in sales and increase in market share. This paper aims at analyzing the impact of market orientation strategies and performance of customer services on customer acquisition,...

This study explores the influence of geo-demographic settings of commercial centers, customer attractions in shopping malls, and route to shopping of urban shoppers. The present research analyzes retailing patterns in urban areas in reference to customer orientation strategies, product search...

The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer-generated product reviews have become a valuable source of information for customers, who read the reviews and decide whether to buy the product based on the information...

This paper compares consumers' brand exploration when shopping online versus in a brick-and-mortar store. I use a new scanner dataset to compare the behavior of households shopping online and in-store at the same chain, for identical items and prices. I find that brand exploration is more...

As in shops, human presence (crowd, salesmen) has an influence on e-commerce website visitors. This study shows that e-commerce shoppers can be divided into three groups according to how they perceive and describe the on-line human presence. Each group is defined by its members on-line shopping...

The growing efficiency of information networks, now distinct from the physical networks of conventional retail markets, should, theoretically, lead to friction-free efficient markets, with less price dispersion. But empirical evidence point to another direction: more precise segmentation on the...

This paper reports the findings of a study on modern domestic retailers in Vietnam. We based this study on (1) a survey of 56 firms that control almost all the modern retail format stores in Vietnam, (2) in-depth interviews with CEOs and government officials, and (3) store visits and...

L’objectif de cet article est de développer une échelle de mesure de la confiance du consommateur vis-à-vis d’un marchand Internet. Les données ont été collectées sur un échantillon total de 430 personnes. Deux études ont été réalisées pour construire cet outil de mesure. Les...

Le lot virtuel est une offre promotionnelle qui conditionne l'obtention d'une gratuité ou d'une réduction à l'achat simultané d'un nombre déterminé d'unités de produits présentées séparément. Technique promotionnelle présentant de nombreux avantages pour les distributeurs comme pour...