Building blocks of brand loyalty have been appealing to marketers for decades. The search for the 'one-fits-all strategy' has unintentionally impaired the exploration of the deeper phenomenological processes consumers engage in. Consumer loyalty for brands includes various degrees (Aaker 1996;...

An ever lasting urge to uncover "the strategy" of building brand loyalty has been motivating marketers for decades. However, simply establishing the same discovered "template" for al l products and brands has been the pursued agenda, without any further interest in examining the deeper...

Little is known about the development of social e-atmospherics. And yet, e-atmospherics have motivated an emerging body of research which reports that both better layouts and 'recognized' atmospherics encourage consumers to modify their shopping habits. While the literature has analyzed mainly...

For decades, marketers sought "the strategy" for building brand loyalty. When they succeeded in achieving extreme brand loyalty with customers, marketers simply followed the same template for other products and brands without bothering to examine the deeper, phenomenological processes involved...