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- Title
The Interplay Among Category Characteristics, Customer Characteristics, and Customer Activities on In-Store Decision Making.
- Authors
Inman, J. Jeffrey; Winer, Russell S; Ferraro, Rosellina
- Abstract
The authors explore product category and customer characteristics that affect consumers' likelihood of engaging in unplanned purchases. In addition, they examine consumer activities that can exacerbate or limit these effects. The authors employ a hierarchical modeling approach to test their hypotheses using a data set of in-store intercept interviews conducted with 2300 consumers across 28 stores. The results show that category characteristics, such as purchase frequency and displays, and customer characteristics, such as household size and gender, affect in-store decision making. Moreover, although the analysis reveals that the baseline probability of an unplanned purchase is 46%, the contextual factors can drive this probability as high as 93%. The results support the predictions that list use, more frequent trips, limiting the aisles visited, limiting time spent in the store, and paying by cash are effective strategies for decreasing the likelihood of making unplanned purchases.
- Subjects
DECISION making; CONSUMER behavior; MARKETING research; SHOPPING; RETAIL stores; DATA analysis; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Marketing, 2009, Vol 73, Issue 5, p19
- ISSN
0022-2429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1509/jmkg.73.5.19