E-grocery service loyalty: integrating food quality, e-grocery quality and relationship quality (young customers’ experience with local food)

Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to evaluate the loyalty formation model on e-grocery service incorporating food quality, e-grocery quality and relationship quality as determinants of loyalty.

Design/methodology/approach

The quantitative approach was used by using 353 data from young Indonesian customers with purchasing experience of local food through e-grocery service. The hypothesized relationships between variables were tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling.

Findings

The results confirm that local food quality, e-grocery service quality and the relationship quality elements of a sense of community and attitudinal attachment, are all loyalty drivers. Next, mediation tests reveal that local food quality and e-grocery service quality influence customer loyalty through customers’ attitudinal attachment and a sense of community.

Practical implications

This study recommends that managers of e-grocery services of local food businesses could benefit from the development of attachment and a sense of community among their young clients. Furthermore, to develop loyalty among young customers, offering high-quality local food as well as e-grocery services is suggested.

Originality/value

To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first examination of the e-grocery service loyalty in the context of local food.

Citation

Suhartanto, D., Dean, D. and Farhani, I. (2024), "E-grocery service loyalty: integrating food quality, e-grocery quality and relationship quality (young customers’ experience with local food)", International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQSS-06-2023-0080