As a summary, this introduction is an attempt to look, on the basis of two cluster analyses, at the interactions between consumption and culture. A first, cluster analysis is based on the qualitative phase of the questionnaire. According to the selected pictures, it leads to the definition of 4 drinking styles that can be interpreted in term of culture: Water Culture, Tea/Coffee Culture, Wine C...

We examine three sets of established behavioral hypotheses about consumers’ in-store shopping behavior (the effect of perceived time pressure, licensing, and the social presence of other shoppers) using field data on shopping paths and linked purchases obtained from an actual grocery store. We incorporate these behavioral hypotheses within an individual-level probability model to examine their ...

How shoppers react to an empty shelf is an ongoing concern in naturally occurring markets. The anticipation of stockouts impacts where customers shop, which in turn affects optimal prices and inventory choices. In this paper we develop a differentiated product duopoly model of this situation. Theoretically, market outcomes hinge on the cost to the shopper of visiting a second seller after exper...

BACKGROUND The Good Food Junction Grocery Store was opened in a former food desert in the inner city of Saskatoon, Canada. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to examine, using grocery store sales data, healthy and less healthful food purchasing over a one-year period beginning eight months after opening by shoppers' neighborhood of residence. DESIGN A multilevel cross sectional desi...

OBJECTIVE Examining factors influencing food label use among Singapore's supermarket shoppers using the Theory of Planned Behavior. DESIGN A point-of-purchase survey among general shoppers in 2 supermarkets. SETTING Singapore, a country whose population is exposed to a wide range of food labeling formats because of the import-dependent nature of the food industry. PARTICIPANTS A total of ...

BACKGROUND Doctor-shopping may reflect unmet patient needs and places a significant burden on health resources; however little is known about its underlying reasons and how it relates to mental illness and its recognition in an open access fee-for-service setting. METHODS In 2003-2004, consecutive patients of 46 French general practitioners (GPs), completed in the waiting room the self-report...

Despite dramatic differences between non-store shoppers were discovered, very limited research has been conducted to examine them. This paper analyses the background of M-commerce and key drivers of future Mcommerce decision among Spanish mobile users. Our objective is two-fold: (1) to determine the influence of relations with the Mobile (frequency of Mobile use, length of Mobile use and Mobile...

Based on the literature on consumer behavior, psychology, and information systems, this paper explores relationships between Web site quality, the cognitive appraisal of situational state (a key cognitive antecedent to emotions) and a set of positive and negative emotions. A theoretical model is tested on data collected from 215 different Web shopping episodes. Results show that when shopping o...