Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.

This paper applied conjoint analysis to investigate the relative importance of supermarket attributes and part-worth utilities of attribute levels that affect consumer choice of supermakets. A study was carried out on consumers working at the Penang free industrial zone factories. The attributes ide...

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Main Authors: Yen, Siew Hwa, Cheah, Hoay Chin
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
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spelling ukm-54512016-12-14T06:38:30Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5451/ Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets. Yen, Siew Hwa Cheah, Hoay Chin This paper applied conjoint analysis to investigate the relative importance of supermarket attributes and part-worth utilities of attribute levels that affect consumer choice of supermakets. A study was carried out on consumers working at the Penang free industrial zone factories. The attributes identified to describe a supermarket are: distance of the supermarket from the respondents house or office,availability of other nearby stores,product price, availability of parking space and service level provided by the supermarket. The outcomes show that,in general most shoppers are attracted to low prices and availability of parking space. Several segmented models indicate that respondents with different sicio-economic background tend to have slight different preferences on the attributes of the supermarkets.This study hopes to provide valuable inputs to the present and future supermarket retailers on the factors that influence consumer choice of supermarket. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5451/1/886-1683-1-SM.pdf Yen, Siew Hwa and Cheah, Hoay Chin (2012) Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets. Jurnal Pengurusan, 34 . pp. 91-100. ISSN 0127-2713 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/penerbit/jurus.htm
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description This paper applied conjoint analysis to investigate the relative importance of supermarket attributes and part-worth utilities of attribute levels that affect consumer choice of supermakets. A study was carried out on consumers working at the Penang free industrial zone factories. The attributes identified to describe a supermarket are: distance of the supermarket from the respondents house or office,availability of other nearby stores,product price, availability of parking space and service level provided by the supermarket. The outcomes show that,in general most shoppers are attracted to low prices and availability of parking space. Several segmented models indicate that respondents with different sicio-economic background tend to have slight different preferences on the attributes of the supermarkets.This study hopes to provide valuable inputs to the present and future supermarket retailers on the factors that influence consumer choice of supermarket.
format Article
author Yen, Siew Hwa
Cheah, Hoay Chin
spellingShingle Yen, Siew Hwa
Cheah, Hoay Chin
Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
author_facet Yen, Siew Hwa
Cheah, Hoay Chin
author_sort Yen, Siew Hwa
title Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
title_short Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
title_full Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
title_fullStr Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
title_full_unstemmed Using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
title_sort using conjoint analysis to study consumers choice of supermarkets.
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2012
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5451/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5451/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5451/1/886-1683-1-SM.pdf
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