We examine the indirect impact of price deals, which occurs through the formation of expected future prices, on households' purchase decisions. Two competing learning processes of households' formation of expected future deals that lead to opposite predictions are proposed. Under a...

The literature on grocery store loyalty views a consumer as possessing store loyalty toward a particular store for her or his overall shopping needs. In this study, we examine store loyalty as a category-specific trait, i.e., a consumer could be loyal to Store A in category 1, but loyal to Store...