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- Title
Assessing Customer Preferences for Shopping Centers: Effects of Functional and Communication Factors.
- Authors
Černikovaitė, Miglė; Karazijienė, Žaneta; Bivainienė, Lina; Dambrava, Valdas; Grigoroudis, Evangelos
- Abstract
Retail companies operating in Lithuania are very important for the national economy. Domestic consumption has remained one of the most important drivers of Lithuania's economic development. The objective of this article is to investigate the customer preferences and to identify selected factors of shopping centers in Vilnius, Lithuania. The study of Vilnius shopping centers is based on a complex model that integrates the following factors: shopping center goods and services, customer service, image factors, physical factors, situational factors and demographic characteristics of target consumers. Expert interviews aimed to determine the customer preference factors by perception of professional experts in relation to the phenomenon under study. The consumer survey questionnaire focuses on all the identified factors that determine the choice of a shopping center. This article identifies theoretical factors for the selection of retail shopping centers, reviews the market trends and peculiarities of Vilnius shopping centers, evaluates the factors for the selection and assess functional, emotional and communicational consumer preferences for the choice of Vilnius shopping centers.
- Subjects
VILNIUS (Lithuania); LITHUANIA; CONSUMER preferences; SHOPPING centers; CONSUMPTION (Economics); DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics; CONSUMER surveys; ECONOMIC trends
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 6, p3254
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su13063254