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Testing the decoy effect in the presence of store brands

Ricardo Sellers-Rubio (Department of Marketing, University of Alicante, San Vicente, Spain.)
Juan-Luis Nicolau-Gonzalbez (Department of Marketing, University of Alicante, San Vicente, Spain.)

International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management

ISSN: 0959-0552

Article publication date: 9 February 2015

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to test decoy effect in the framework of sales promotion, by conducting several experiments to figure out how this decoy effect is influenced by the presence or absence of a store brand.

Design/methodology/approach

Several experiments have been conducted to test the validity of the decoy effect and rule out some explanations for the changes in demand that take place. The experiments consider three brands (two national brands and one store brand). All the brand names and prices employed in the experiment are real.

Findings

The results indicate that, as expected, the inclusion of a decoy in the choice set significantly increases the consumer’s relative preference for the promoted product; however, more importantly, the results also show that store brand consumers are more influenced by a decoy than national brand consumers.

Originality/value

This paper presents the first evidence of the decoy effect in the presence of store brands.

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Citation

Sellers-Rubio, R. and Nicolau-Gonzalbez, J.-L. (2015), "Testing the decoy effect in the presence of store brands", International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 43 No. 2, pp. 113-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJRDM-07-2013-0144

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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