Agent technology has been applied to design new services simplifying product and merchant brokering in several consumer industries. The term “shopbots” is generally used to characterize these services. It is proposed that shopbots will reduce consumer search costs and make consumer buying behavior more rational. Based upon a decision making model, we propose twelve hypotheses of the effects of ...

This paper re-examines the discrete choice methods and stated preference elicitation procedures that are commonly used in choice-based conjoint analysis. The aim is to clarify their domains of applicability and provide reliable techniques for data collection and analysis. CONTENTS Topic Page Preface 2 1 Choice Behavior and Consumer Welfare 2 1.1 Utility 5 1.2 Choice Probabilities 8 1.3 Consumer...

While past research has found that implicit measures are good predictors of affectively driven, but not cognitively driven, behavior it has not yet been tested which implicit measures best predict behavior. By implementing a consumer context, in the present experiment, we assessed two explicit measures (i.e. self-reported habit and tastiness) and three implicit measures (i.e. manikin task, affe...

Street vended food (SVF) includes food and beverages prepared and sold outdoors or in public areas by street merchants for consumption on the scene or later without further preparation. Due to its low price and convenience, SVF has been popular in Korea for a long time, particularly with high school students. Beyond Korea, SVF is also popular in southeast Asia and southern Africa in the form of...

Ovulation, Female Competition, and Product Choice: Hormonal Influences on Consumer Behavior Author(s): Kristina M. Durante, Vladas Griskevicius, Sarah E. Hill, Carin Perilloux, and Norman P. Li Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 37, No. 6 (April 2011), pp. 921-934 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656575 . Acc...

• Consumer reaction to in-store communication is contingent on the displaying device Personalized messages are more effective customer-owned smartphones Standardized retailer-owned screens This effect can be explained by extended self and assemblage theory Smart technologies promise enhance customer experience new levels in next-generation retail stores. Offline retailers increasingly employ te...