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"The effect of purchase quantity and timing on variety-seeking behavior." Journal of Marketing Research (1990): 150-162. McAlister, Leigh, and Edgar Pessemier. "Variety seeking behavior: An interdisciplinary review." Journal of Consumer research 9, no. 3 (1982): 311-322. Kahn, Barbara E., and Alice M. Isen.
The related variety seeking, or variety-seeking buying behavior, describes consumers' desire to search for alternative products even they are satisfied with a current product. For example, someone may drink tea with lunch one day but choose orange juice the next day specifically to get something different. [ 3 ]
Simonson showed that when people have to make simultaneous choice (e.g. choose now which of six snacks to consume in the next three weeks), they tend to seek more variety (e.g., pick more kinds of snacks) than when they make sequential choices (e.g., choose once a week which of six snacks to consume that week for three weeks).
To attempt to persuade these consumers into habitual buying behavior, marketers will try to dominate shelf space, cut prices, or introduce new products. [5] If a low-involvement consumer continues to use variety-seeking behavior, brand loyalty is unlikely to be established.
As part of consumer behavior, the buying decision process is the decision-making process used by consumers regarding the market transactions before, during, and after the purchase of a good or service. It can be seen as a particular form of a cost–benefit analysis in the presence of multiple alternatives. [1] [2]
Consumer culture is viewed as "social arrangement in which the relations between lived culture and social resources, between meaningful ways of life and the symbolic and material resources on which they depend, are mediated through markets" [2] and consumers as part of an interconnected system of commercially produced products and images which ...
Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services.It encompasses how the consumer's emotions, attitudes, and preferences affect buying behaviour.
A major deficiency of the AIDA model and other hierarchical models is the absence of post-purchase effects such as satisfaction, consumption, repeat patronage behaviour and other post-purchase behavioural intentions such as referrals or participating in the preparation of online product reviews. [10]