Purpose – The interest in scrapbooking across the USA has boomed virtually overnight. Sales have skyrocketed from $500 million in 2000 to $2.5 billion in 2003. Is the interest based on a great deal of scrapbooking hype and investment with little long‐term industry profitability, like the...

Purpose – To extend the research stream that, in the UK and USA has linked supermarket access to consumer diet by focusing on Pathmark, a supermarket chain that operates in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the square footage allocated...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decompose total customer value as perceived by department store shoppers into utilitarian, hedonic and social dimensions, and empirically test this conceptualization in a Finnish department store shopping context. Design/methodology/approach – Data...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the roles that social cues play in affecting patronage behavior and how consumer susceptibility to interpersonal influence would moderate the influence of social cues on store image. Design/methodology/approach – A two (high vs low...

Purpose – To find out if and how delivery charge and three other situational factors affect consumers' grocery shopping channel choice. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was conducted among a convenience sample of 152 supermarket shoppers in South England. Each respondent was presented...

Purpose – To provide a general understanding of grocery consumers' retail format choice in the US marketplace. Design/methodology/approach – A random sample of US grocery consumers ( N =454) was surveyed using a self‐administered questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistical...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the online preference structures of consumers. Design/methodology/approach – Novel choice‐based conjoint experiments are used and are administered online. A select group of high net worth online grocery shoppers are examined. Both...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic nature in building and losing trust in business to consumer (B2C) eBusiness in an effort to better understand the casual nature of trust. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses system dynamics as a lens to interpret and...