What determines whether one purchases products online or through another channel? Just as retailers seek to develop online retail websites as profitable channels of distribution, researchers have pursued answers to this very question. In pursuing this line of research, several approaches have been utilized including those based upon behavioral economics, lifestyle analysis, and merchandising ef...

Applications to support online comparison shopping are expected to become increasingly available to consumers. However, not all consumers equally engage in online comparison shopping and, thus, would not necessarily benefit from such tools. The study proposes that the perceived usefulness of comparison shopping tools depends on consumers‟ comparison shopping proneness, which in turn is influenc...

Shopping is a social activity that people enjoy doing with friends and close ones. In this paper we name such joint shopping activity performed by two or more people together as “collaborative shopping”, and investigate the possible means of carrying it out online. We start with identifying the objectives of collaborative shopping (i.e., socializing and purchasing) and propose website features ...

T paper analyzes the competitive role of retail shopping experience in markets with consumer search costs. We examine how a retailer’s advantage in providing consumer shopping experience affects its equilibrium pricing and price advertising strategies. We find that if the consumer valuation of a shopping experience is sufficiently low, its effect on retailer strategy is similar to that of quali...

Trust issue is developing into an important topic as the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous within everyday life. Although a lot of studies focus on salient factors that persuade consumer trust towards online vendors, few studies address the issue that online trust could be affected by consumers using cognitive information processes or simple cues to build their trust toward online vendor...

The purpose of this study is to investigate hedonic online shopping motivations. A qualitative analysis was conducted to explore the factors influencing online hedonic shopping motivations. The results of the study indicate that traditional hedonic values, consisting of social, role, self-gratification, learning trends, pleasure of bargaining, stimulation, diversion, status, and adventure, and ...

Independent grocery shopping is one of the most functionally challenging tasks for visually impaired and blind individuals. Many assistive shopping systems have been developed to address the problem of blind grocery shopping. In this article, we identify several design requirements for assistive shopping systems and analyze existing approaches to see how well they meet them. Our objective is to...

This paper proposed a novel locating technology based shopping management system (LSMS) based on wireless localization technology, and described its design and implementation detail. By incorporating handheld devices, shopping mall resource management system and wireless location technology into a whole system, LSMS can make customers in a shopping mall get product information conveniently, kno...

This study aims to explore the factors that determine the attractiveness of shopping mall locations for developers, from the perspective of those who want to select site to open shopping malls in China, and to evaluate the relative importance of these factors. Through a literature review, shopping mall location, store attractiveness in the shopping mall, fit between target market customers and ...