Lack of consumer trust is a critical obstacle to the success of online retailing. Knowledge is one important factor influencing the level of trust. However, there is no consensus on the relationship between knowledge and trust. Some studies argued a negative relationship between knowledge and trust while the others argued positive. This study discussed the relationship among knowledge, trust in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the iPad 2™ with Book Creator™ software to provide visual cues and video prompting to teach shopping skills in the community to a young adult with an autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. METHODS A multiple probe across settings design was used to assess effects of the intervention on the participant's independence with following a shopping list in a groc...

Previous studies explored the effects of individual cognitive and affective reactions on online shopping and those of individual differences on usage of information systems. However, few studies evaluated how individual differences affect online shopping. This paper draws on the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the technology acceptance model (TAM) as it attempts to gain understanding of ind...

Many scholars have developed different conceptual models to capture effects of factors on consumers’ preferences for on-line shopping websites (e.g., Ranganathan and Gananpathy, 2002; Schaupp and Belanger, 2005; Shih, 2004; Straub and Watson, 2001) because the on-line shopping website has become one of the major interfaces between companies and their consumers. A review of extant literatures su...

Low-income areas in which residents have poor access to healthy foods have been referred to as "food deserts." It is thought that improving food access may help curb the obesity epidemic. Little is known about where residents of food deserts shop and if shopping habits are associated with body mass index (BMI). We evaluated the association of food shopping and acquisition (e.g., obtaining food ...

Iran is becoming an appropriate country for selling Internet-based products. Evidence illustrates an inverse trend and avoidance in this regard. This study was designed to provide some insights into why Iranians avoid shopping on the Internet. The recent rapid increase in the number of Iranian users (almost 34 million) and low desire to buy from online retailers make it imperative to study vari...

Over the past decade, Internet shopping has grown substantially. Although the fast advancing information infrastructure makes the connectivity possible to reach almost anywhere in the world, it does not necessarily ensure a successful development of Internet shopping platform for every Internet shoppers. The important factor that could influence the diffusion of Internet commerce can be the dif...

There has been widespread use of auto-ID technologies. With the increasing diffusion of smartphones, the potential to serve content to shoppers using auto-ID technologies is starting to receive interest. Using a design science approach, we design and build, theorize about, and compare six shopping assistance artifacts by manipulating the hardware design—barcode scanner versus radio frequency id...

The Internet as a global medium is quickly gaining interest and attractiveness as the most revolutionary marketing tool. The global nature of communication and shopping has as well redefined, seeing that it is the perfect vehicle for online shopping stores. Online convenient shop is mostly reflected in shorter time and less energy spent, including shipping cost reduction, less crowd and queues ...