...of Impulse Buying Behavior | Shristi Shakya Term VI | Table of Contents Chapter 1 1 Introduction 1 Background 1 Objectives of the Research 2 Statement of problem 2 Research Questions 2 Hypothesis 3 Need of the study 3 Limitations of the research 3 Chapter 2 3 Review of Literature 3 Literature Review 3 Theoretical Framework 3 Chapter 3 3 Research Design and Methodology 3 Research Design 3 Description of Population and Samples 3 Instrumentation 3 Data Collection Procedure: 3 Statistical tools used 3 Measurement: Scaling, Reliability and Validity 3 Bibliography 3 Chapter 1 Introduction Background An impulse purchase or impulse buy is an unplanned decision to buy a product or service, made just before a purchase (Wikipedia). Impulse buying is a sudden, compelling, hedonically complex purchase behavior in which the rapidity of the impulse purchase decision precludes any thoughtful, deliberate consideration of alternatives (Kacen, 2002). The speed of purchase decision prevents from any thoughts, considerations and studying other options or alternatives. Rook (1995) defines an impulse buying as follows: when a consumer experiences a sudden, often powerful, and persistent urge to buy something immediately. The impulse to buy is hedonically complex and may stimulate emotional conflict. The research on impulse buying behavior has many practical benefits and by revealing the relative importance of factors affecting the impulse buying...
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...COLLEGE STUDENTS’ APPAREL IMPULSE BUYING BEHAVIORS IN RELATION TO VISUAL MERCHANDISING by JIYEON KIM (Under the Direction of Dr. Brigitte Burgess) ABSTRACT Due to increasing competition and the similarity of merchandise, retailers utilize visual merchandising to differentiate their offerings from others’ as well as to improve the desirability of products. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between college students’ apparel impulse buying behaviors and visual merchandising. The result of the present study proves that there is a pivotal relationship between college students’ impulse buying behaviors and two type of visual merchandising practices: instore form/mannequin display and promotional signage. This study provides information as to why visual merchandising should be considered an important component of a strategic marketing plan in support of sales increase and positive store/company image. This study also provides insights to retailers about types of visual merchandising that can influence consumers’ impulse buying behaviors. INDEX WORDS: Impulse buying behavior, Visual merchandising COLLEGE STUDENTS’ APPAREL IMPULSE BUYING BEHAVIORS IN RELATION TO VISUAL MERCHANDISING by JIYEON KIM BS, The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea, 1991 BFA, American Intercontinental University, 2000 A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements...
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...and the consumer impulse buying behavior. | | TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary | 3 | Background of the problem | 3 | Problem Statement | 4 | Research Objectives | 4 | Review of Literature | 4 | Segmentation Plan | 5 | Research Hypothesis | 6 | Research Design | 6 | Results and Practical utility of the research | 6 | Scheduling the research | 7 | Results and outcomes of the research | 7 | Glossary of Terms | 8 | References | 9 | 1. Executive Summary The vibrant and exotic atmosphere of Delhi local markets can make shopping lots of fun. One of the biggest sectors is apparel sector. Local apparel markets in Delhi sell hundreds or thousands of products daily. It is not only famous in Delhi but people from all over India do their wedding shopping from Delhi shops which are cheap and of new fashion. People do planned as well as unplanned shopping from these local shops. It is usually seen that buyers purchase products which they have not planned and this phenomenon of unplanned purchasing is termed as impulse. There are many factors which lead to unplanned or impulsebuying. This leads us to determine the factors that lead to impulse buying behaviour in consumers as well as to determine which segment (based on VALS classification scheme) of consumers show the most impulse buying behaviour. 2. Background of the problem All over the world people prefer buying from local markets...
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...publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. [http://hdl.handle.net/2066/19379] Please be advised that this information was generated on 2012-09-19 and may be subject to change. Buying Impulses: A Study on Impulsive Consumption Astrid Gisela Herabadi Buying Impulses: A Study on Impulsive Consumption Astrid Gisela Herabadi PrintPartners Ipskamp ISBN 90-9017360-9 Cover illustration: A part of the stone-reliefs in “Candi Borobudur” Buying Impulses: A Study on Impulsive Consumption Een wetenschappelijke proeve op het gebied van the Sociale Wetenschappen Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen op gezag van de rector magnificus Prof.dr.C.W.P.M. Blom, volgens besluit van het College van Decanen in het openbare te verdedigen op woensdag 17 december 2003, des namiddags om 1.30 uur precies door Astrid Gisela Herabadi geboren te Bogor op 30 december 1969 Promotores: Prof. dr. B. Verplanken (University of Tromsø, Norway) Prof. dr. A.F.M. van Knippenberg Manuscriptcommissie: Prof. dr. J.A.J.P. Janssen Prof. dr. N.K. de Vries (Universiteit Maastricht) Prof. dr. M. Zeelenberg (Universiteit van Tilburg) Buying Impulses: A Study on Impulsive Consumption A scientific essay in Social Sciences Doctoral thesis to obtain the degree of doctor from the University of Nijmegen on auhority of Rector Prof.dr.C.W.P.M. Blom, according to the decision...
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... * * * Impulse Buying: Its Relation to Personality Traits and Cues Seounmi Youn, University of Minnesota Ronald J. Faber, University of Minnesota ABSTRACT - Much of the work on impulse buying has been concerned with defining and measuring the concept. Less effort has been directed toward determining the factors that underlie the tendency to buy impulsively. This study looks at the relationship between impulse buying tendencies and three general personality traitsClack of control, stress reaction, and absorption. Additionally, this study identifies several different types of internal states and environmental/ sensory stimuli that serve as cues for triggering impulse buying. Internal cues include respondents’ positive and negative feeling states. Environmental/sensory cues encompass atmospheric cues in retail settings, marketer-controlled cues, and marketing mix stimuli. Relationships between the three personality traits and specific impulse buying cues are also examined, along with differences among high and low impulse buyers in their sensitivity to various cues. [ to cite ]: Seounmi Youn and Ronald J. Faber (2000) ,"Impulse Buying: Its Relation to Personality Traits and Cues", in Advances in Consumer Research Volume 27, eds. Stephen J. Hoch and Robert J. Meyer, Advances in Consumer Research Volume 27 : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 179-185. Advances in Consumer Research Volume 27, 2000 Pages 179-185 IMPULSE BUYING: ITS RELATION TO PERSONALITY...
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...CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION Shopping malls are the places where consumer can purchase products even it is planned or unplanned purchase. These stores trade thousands of commodities daily and customers are consuming these commodities at the cost of their revenue. It only dependents on the profits or income of the person, that to what extant and how many times he or she stopover for shopping with stores to purchase products. It is generally seen that punchers buy products which they have not planned and this phenomena of unplanned purchasing is known as impulse buying. Impulsive purchasing, usually explained as a consumer unplanned purchase which is an significant element of buyer behavior. It accounts for as much as sixty two percent of supermarket sales and eighty percent of all sales in definite product categories. Although impulsive purchasing has fascinated attention in consumer research. Unfortunately, there is a lack of research on group-level determinants. 1.1 RATIONALE OF THE STUDY In-store marketing is increasingly becoming an important part of promotion. Advertising is becoming highly diversified. Increased number of media channels has created a clutter for the consumer. Due to the increased demand, the media channels rates have gone up, as they enjoy higher viewership than before. Middle scale businesses can’t afford such higher rates, so they find out newer channels for their product advertisement. This situation has compelled the middle...
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... Motivations for impulsive buying behavior and the effective marketing strategies selling grocery products Case: CITY SHOP By: Ilja Khanan Nationality: Germany Major Business Administration Student ID: 113110246 Supervisor: Nikola Zivlak Date: June 2014 Abstract For over sixty years, marketers and consumer researchers have studied Impulsive-buying behavior. Today, 30 to 60% of all purchases are impulsive in the USA (Crawford & Melewar 2003) for different product categories and it is considered to have a $4.2 billion annual volume. That’s why it is becoming more important for marketers to understand how people can be influenced when shopping in order to increase revenues and profits. Millions of dollars are spent on in-store marketing efforts. Over the years, different models have been created for marketers to better understand the key drivers that lead to impulsive buying. This dissertation is written for the retailer or marketer who will adjust their marketing strategies to capture the opportunities of the consumer impulse purchases. This dissertation focuses on City shop and the strategies they use to encourage impulsive buying behavior. The thesis will cover the following topics in regard to impulsive buying: - Factors and influences that lead to impulsive buying behavior? - The different promotional approaches used by marketers? - What personal traits influence consumers to buy on impulse and what is the behavioral...
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...CAUSES OF IMPULSE BUYING IN SUPERMARKETS: CASE STUDY OF SUPERMARKETS ALONG THIKA ROAD SUPERHIGHWAY. BY: PRESENTED TO G. NDUATI A project proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of a degree in International Business Administration (marketing) ABSTARCT The case study will aim at collecting information from respondents on the factors affecting impulse buying. The research design to be used in this study will be descriptive research. CHAPTER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Background of study. Impulse buying occurs ―when a consumer experiences a sudden, often powerful and persistent urge to buy something immediately‖ (Rook, 1987). Impulse buying may be consequent to consumer perceived environmental cognitions or experienced internal states or traits, which can evoke positive reactions from shoppers that lead to profit gains (Newman & Patel, 2004). Most shoppers occasionally buy on impulse. This pervasive phenomenon draws substantial research interest. At present dramatic increase in personal disposable incomes and easy to get credit availability have made impulsive purchasing in retail environment a major leisure and lifestyle activity. Impulsive purchase behavior is driven by pleasure seeking goals causes a consumer to experience desires for products. There exists a need to explore more the impulse buying behavior in a non-Western context, especially for those emerging countries as they are becoming the most lucrative...
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...International Research Journal of Finance and Economics ISSN 1450-2887 Issue 66 (2011) © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2011 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Impulse Purchasing as a Purchasing Behaviour and Research on Karaman Selda Basaran Alagöz Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, 70100, Karaman - Turkey E-mail: seldalagoz@hotmail.com Tel: +90-338-2262000; Fax: +90-338-2262023 Nezahat Ekici Res. Assistant, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, 70100, Karaman - Turkey E-mail: nezahatekici@hotmail.com Tel: +90-338-2262000; Fax: +90-338-2262023 Abstract Globalisation of markets caused differentiation of products and development of different selling techniques and as a result, consumer’s purchase decision process became more complicated. Lots of inner and outer factors affect consumer’s purchase decision (Ünal and Ercis, 2006). Consumer, who is in the middle of a lot of stimulants like, complicated message content, news, visuals, e-mails etc, is trying to develop a specific purchasing method or purchasing behaviour to handle the situation. In modern societies, shopping and consuming are not only for responding human needs, they also shape people’s lifestyle and even more started to play a part of changing their characters. At this point, we can talk about consumer identity. A person’s all characteristic features pass to his’ consumer identity...
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...Master Thesis On Visual Merchandising in an Online Store By Aryamparambil Pooja Kishor Babu Roll No: 005 PGDM - Marketing Under the guidance of Prof. Vilasini Jadhav K J SIMSR K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research January, 2016 DECLARATION I, Ms. Aryamparambil Pooja Kishor Babu hereby declare that this thesis is the record of authentic work carried out by me during tri semester IV and has not been submitted to any other University or Institute for the award of any degree / diploma etc. Signature Name of the student: Aryamparambil Pooja Kishor Babu Roll No: 005 Date ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to my instructor and faculty guide Ms. Vilasini Jadhav, whose expertise and able guidance helped me immensely in the successful partial completion of this Master Thesis. I express my sincere thanks to K.J.SIMSR for providing me the opportunity to work on this thesis. Lastly, I thank God, my parents and family for their constant encouragement and support in my endeavor. Table of Contents | |Topic |Page No. | | |Cover Page ...
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...MARKETING NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS Why Do People Shop? Do people shop simply to make purchases? considerations that are unrelated to an actual purchase? other than his or her need for products or services. EDWARD M. TAUBER Are some shopping trips motivated by The results of an explora- tory study of shopper motivation suggest that a person may shop for many reasons 'T'HE field of consumer behavior has experi-•- enced a dynamic period of growth over the past 10 years. It is frequently overlooked, however, that this broad area consists of three distinct activities: shopping, buying, and consuming. Considerable progress has been achieved in identifying the behavioral dimensions of buying, and a number of theories of buying behavior have been postulated. However, less is known about the determinants of consuming and shopping which are also of substantial theoretical and managerial importance. This article attempts to encourage behavioral research and theory building concerning shopping behavior by presenting some exploratory research findings on the question of why do people shop? Numerous writings have been directed to this question. For example, researchers have suggested that shopping is a function of the nature of the product,' the degree of perceived risk inherent in the product class,^ and the level of knowledge or amount of information about alternatives.'' All of these answers are directed at the question, "Why do people shop in more than one store?" (comparison...
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...Consumer Traits and Behaviors Paper and Presentation References PSY/322 Team C: Jesika Corbet, Marshaye Glasscock, Jane Riscica, Yulonda Coleman, and Brandon Treece May 26, 2014 1. Kacen, Jacqueline, J. (2002). The Influence of Culture on Consumer Impulsive Buying Behavior Journal of Consumer Psychology, Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 163-176 This article would be a helpful resource because it demonstrates the impact annual sales volumes increase in many cultures through impulsive buying. It also allows us to see just how individualism-collectivism, self-identity, and purchase behavior whether it is planned or impulsive contributes to a culture in different fashions. Impulse buying generates over $4 billion in annual sales volume in the United States. With the growth of e-commerce and television shopping channels, consumers have easy access to impulse purchasing opportunities, but little is known about this sudden, compelling, hedonically complex purchasing behavior in non-Western cultures. Yet cultural factors moderate many aspects of consumer's impulsive buying behavior, including self-identity, normative influences, the suppression of emotion, and the postponement of instant gratification. From a multi-country survey of consumers in Australia, United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, our analyses show that both regional level factors (individualism–collectivism) and individual cultural difference factors (independent –interdependent self-concept) systematically...
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...where the retailer and other relevant intermediaries are faced with so many product options to stock on their floor space. It then becomes apparent that the marketing manger that is able to gain the best and most floor space using one strategy, and persuade end customers to seek out and purchase the organization’s products in another strategy, becomes successful in gaining market share and meeting their objectives. This paper will define distribution management and its components. It will look at the impact of the Bullwhip Effect or the Forrester Effect, the push and pull strategies and the convergence thereof and then delve into the push or pull strategies in relation to intensive, selective or exclusive distribution. 2.0 Definition Of Terms 2.1 Distribution Management Distribution management can be defined as the management of channel members and the method or strategy of delivery products to the final consumer through the channel...
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...its influence on consumer buying behavior Zain-Ul-Abideen (Corresponding Author) Department of Management Sciences, Abbasia Campus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. E-mail: zuabideen@gmail.com Salman Saleem Department of Business Administration, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. E-mail: salmankhan302@gmail.com Abstract Advertising is a form of communication intended to convince an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, information, or services etc. This paper investigates the relationship between independent variables which are environmental response and emotional response with attitudinal and behavioral aspect of consumer buying behavior, by tapping the responses of 200 respondents using telecommunication services from Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and Lahore (cities of Pakistan). The major findings of the study demonstrate an overall normal association between the variables but in-depth analysis found that emotional response of consumer purchase behavior is the variable that results into strong association with the consumer buying behavior. It is true that people purchase those brands with which they are emotionally attached. This study reports new evidences in the field of consumer buying behavior of consumers pertaining to the local markets of these cities of Pakistan. Keywords: Environmental response, Emotional response, Consumer buying behavior. 1. Introduction...
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...Product Description/Objective This candle holder is a bottle neck pillar candle holder offered by Pier 1 Imports. The candle accessory is decorated in abstract design in neutral colors. Pier 1 Imports searches out artisans throughout the world to help them find and develop and develop fashion trends designed specifically for their customers. Target Audience The primary customers are those who enjoy decorating their home with a desire for distinct décor and good value. The target market for this product from Pier 1 Imports is women ages 25-34. These consumers are combining purchased goods, such as this pillar candle holder with their own home décor ideas to complete the look of their home. These consumers are generally either impulse buyers or they are purchasing under limited decision making, where they have done a surface research of different candle holders that have piqued their interest. Competition Current competitors for Pier 1 Imports include box retail stores such as Walmart and Target, large retail stores such as Bed, Bath & Beyond and IKEA and specialty stores such as Yankee and Crate & Barrel. Pier 1 Imports is positioned to handle competition through at least two forms of sustainable competitive advantages. First, Pier 1 Imports has built the brand and made a very good brand for themselves. Pier 1 Imports is iconic with home décor and is pretty much a household name. Many households in America, have at least one product in them from Pier...
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