Inter‐relationships among store images, store satisfaction, and store loyalty among Korea discount retail patrons
Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
ISSN: 1355-5855
Article publication date: 18 December 2003
Abstract
This study examines how various characteristics of the discount retail environment and the overall attitude towards a discount retail store, considered to be an abstract and global image component, influence consumers’ satisfaction and how consumers’ satisfaction, in turn, affects store loyalty. The data, collected from a sample of 517 discount retail customers in Daegu, Korea, indicate that: (1) forming the overall attitude is more closely related to in‐store services: atmosphere, employee service, after sales service and merchandising, (2) store satisfaction is formed through perceived store atmosphere and value, (3) the overall attitude has strong influence on satisfaction and loyalty and its impact is much stronger on loyalty than on satisfaction, (4) store loyalty is directly affected by most significantly location, merchandising and after sale service in order, (5) satisfaction is not related to customers’ committed store revisiting behavior. The applications in management and implications for future research are discussed.
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Citation
Koo, D. (2003), "Inter‐relationships among store images, store satisfaction, and store loyalty among Korea discount retail patrons", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 42-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/13555850310765033
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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