Electronics, a high involvement product (HIP), consists of 8 per cent in organized retail industry in India. This category is growing at a rapid pace with many players entering into organized format of retail in this category. Recently many players have also entered into online marketing of...

This study, to begin with, throws some light on Indian retail scenario, concept of visual merchandising and impulse buying and then attempts to explore the relationship between the factors of visual merchandising and consumers' demographics so as to analyze the impact of visual merchandising on...

To advance understanding of how well different types of brand relationships drive customer brand loyalty and to help companies improve the effectiveness of their relationship-building investments, this article conducts a meta-analysis of the link between five consumer-brand relationship...

Research studies on brand transgression (BT), service failure and recovery (SFR), and product-harm crisis (PHC) appear to have a common focus, yet the three streams developed surprisingly independently and with limited reference to one another. This situation is unfortunate because all three...

Retail industry in India is booming and there is fierce competition. The country indeed has become the cynosure of FDI in retail sector and policies are heading towards more liberalization to attract foreign investment. There are various players in apparel segment in terms of lifestyle format....

In spite of having very good growth potential, retail in India is passing through turbulent times and therefore, differentiation becomes very essential. There are various players in apparel segment in terms of lifestyle format. These apparel players deliver almost the same thing as their...

While brand punishment – through either individual or collective action – has received ample attention by consumer psychologists, absent from this literature is that such punishment can take the form of unethical actions that can occur even when the consumer is not personally harmed. Across...

Indian retail market is going through a turbulent time with the growth of online retail which has reduced the footfalls in the physical outlets/stores. Sales of electronics goods - specifically mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc., are increasing online and giving fierce competition to brick...

Buying behavior of customers for different product categories varies because of different factors. This research was intended to find impact of visual merchandising on consumer buying behavior for two different product categories. The two product categories for study were apparel and furniture....

Apparel industry in India is booming and there is fierce competition among various players in apparel segment in terms of lifestyle format. The study is aimed to find out impact of various dimensions of visual merchandising on impulse buying behavior of the customers visiting “Central...