Eco-Impact of Shopping Bags: Consumer Attitude and Governmental Policies

Eco-Impact of Shopping Bags: Consumer Attitude and Governmental Policies

Eco-Impact of Plastic and Paper Shopping Bags

This article describes the study of the eco-impact of plastic and paper bags using the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) technique under three different options: usage and disposal criteria with the existing usage behavior to reuse and governmental policies to recycle (option1), usage and disposal criteria as per consumers’ perceptions if systems are in place (option2) and usage and disposal ...

Impact of Persuasion Processes on Consumer Attitude Towards Online Shopping: The Moderating Role of Product Involvement and Consumer Self-Efficacy

Online vendors expand significant efforts in attracting consumers to their websites. However, once a consumer lands on a vendor’s website, a more challenging task is to convince her/him to actually transact with the website by purchasing products. This research-in-progress study draws on the elaboration-likelihood model (ELM) to develop a theoretical model for the impacts of different persuasio...

Folding Paper Shopping Bags

One of the most ubiquitous examples of origami is the common paper shopping bag. In a common model of paper folding, there are a finite number of creases, between which the paper must stay rigid and flat, as if made of plastic or metal plates connected by hinges. We show that (maybe surprisingly), the paper shopping bag cannot be flattened under this model using the usual pattern of creases. Th...

The Impact Mechanism of Consumer-generated Comments of Shopping Sites on Consumer Trust

-The author aims at studying the influence of consumer-generated comments of the shopping sites on consumer trust. The research divides consumer-generated comments into four types: service comments, product and price comments, self-display comments and after-action comments. With the survey result of 166 college students, the author finds that online shoppers’ trust are influenced by consumer-g...