Purpose: Consumers may shop under an experiential or a task-focused shopping orientation. The present research examines whether interindividual differences in consumers’ shopping orientations reflect a stable consumer disposition (i.e., chronic shopping orientation). Furthermore, it examines whether this disposition influences consumers’ evaluations of retailer communication. Design/methodology...

On-line shopping is a recent phenomenon in the field of E-Business and is definitely going to be the future of shopping in the world. Most of the companies are running their on-line portals to sell their products/services on-line. Though online shopping is very common outside India, its growth in Indian Market, which is a large and strategic consumer market, is still not in line with the global...

The distance shopping system has a long history of development from the traditional mail-order catalogue to the interactive online shopping platform of today. However, developing a new form of distance shopping does not mean digitizing product catalogues or uploading product information online, retailers and marketers should pay attention to the effective use of virtual technologies, in particu...

A large number of studies investigating business-to-consumer e-commerce have focused exclusively on online shopping by individuals, although consumers often desire to conduct their shopping activities with others. This study has therefore attempted to study collaborative online shopping by looking at two types of presence that are of particular relevance to this context, namely, telepresence an...

The Swiss study of the value of travel time savings (VTTS), conducted by König, Axhausen und Abay (2004) reported unexpectedly high values for shopping trips from early experimental stated preference experiments, which were finally not included in the main study. Therefore a study focusing only shopping travel was conducted to see, if these results could be replicated. This study estimates VTTS...

Planning policies in several European countries have aimed at hindering the expansion of out-of-town shopping centers. One argument for this is concern for the increase in transport and a resulting increase in environmental externalities such as CO2-emissions. This concern is weakly founded in science as few studies have attempted to measure CO2-emissions of shopping trips as a function of the ...

This study examines the factors influencing online shopping behavior of urban consumers in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India and provides a better understanding of the potential of electronic marketing for both researchers and online retailers. Data from a sample of 1500 Internet users (distributed evenly among six selected major cities) was collected by a structured questionnaire covering dem...