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AUTHOR
Eva María Caplliure
The effect of personal involvement on the decision to buy store brands
Store brands are appearing in an ever‐increasing number of categories and their acceptance by consumers is unquestionable. The purpose of this paper is to model the decision process involved in a purchase which the consumer goes through when choosing store brands over national brands. The model provided allows us to explain why the same consumer may choose a store brand in one product category and not in another. We have taken personal product involvement as the principal point of reference.
Do Men and Women Differ When Purchasing Private Label Goods?
In the context of shopping goods, this paper analyzes the key variables in men and women when they have to face private label purchase decision: attitude towards private label, value consciousness, brand consciousness, involvement with the product and private label purchase intention. The moderating role of gender in the relationship between those variables is also analyzed. On a sample of 433 individuals, and considering two different shopping goods, results showed differences between men and women in all the variables, except in the value consciousness. Furthermore, due to a multigroup analysis technique, we found more differences between the variables affecting PL purchase intention. Acc…
Attitude, Quality and Satisfaction Toward Distributor Brands in Durable Goods: The Influence of Consumers’ Price Consciousness
This study analyzes how consumers’ general attitude towards distributor brands, the perception held by the individual on the quality differences between distributor and manufacturer brands, as well as the anticipated satisfaction with the product are key variables for explaining the intention to purchase durable goods with distributor brands. As a significant contribution the influence of consumers’ price consciousness as a moderating variable is tested.