Purpose This study aims to understand customer’s assessments of neighborhood stores during the COVID-19 pandemic through the influence of in-store environmental factors on patronage intention. Design/methodology/approach Online survey with 528 participants about the last shopping trip in neighborhood retail. The authors performed data analysis using structural equation modeling techniques. Findings High-perceived spatial crowding negatively influences shopping experience value perceptions, while human crowding influences patronage intentions through increased perceived hedonic value. Research limitations/implications Results suggest that purchase experience at well-known neighborhood stores during a sanitary crisis is becoming less convenience-oriented and a substitute for leisure activities due to social distancing. Practical implications The findings elucidate the social function of neighborhood convenience retailing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results emphasize that a pleasant shopping experience arising from a good relationship with shopkeepers and other customers is more influential on patronage intention than a good product assortment and store layout. Social implications This paper contributes to the survival of small neighborhood businesses during the financial crisis installed due to Covid-19 by helping businesses become more attractive to their consumers and competitive in the new context. Originality/value The combined context of the health crisis due to COVID-19 and neighborhood retail of an emerging country raises the need for tests to better understand established marketing theories. Based on this rationale, this work intends to replicate and extend selected previous findings to the new environment dictated by the pandemic.
Objetivo do estudo: O presente artigo visa a investigar a influência indireta do ambiente tecnológico de lojas físicas na intenção de compra do consumidor. Essa influência indireta pode ser explicada por meio da emoção, da percepção de valor e da satisfação.Metodologia: Adotou-se a técnica de Modelagem de Equações Estruturais (PLS-SEM) para validação estatística dos caminhos diretos propostos em conjunto com uma análise de mediação realizada via Macro PROCESS para corroborar o caminho indireto hipotetizado.Principais Resultados: As três mediadoras propostas (emoções positivas, percepção de valor e satisfação) são significantes e consistentes. Em adição, elas em conjunto ajudam a entender como o ambiente tecnológico influencia o processo de decisão de compra do indivíduo. Apesar da existência de um efeito direto, mesmo que bem menor do que o tamanho do efeito indireto, entre o ambiente offline composto por tecnologias e a intenção de compra.Contribuições teóricas/metodológicas: As percepções do consumidor, entendidas como caminhos mais racionais que levam ao comportamento, foram mais robustos que um caminho emocional no entendimento de como a tecnologia influencia a intenção comportamental do indivíduo.Relevância/originalidade: A inclusão e o foco no ambiente tecnológico, visto como um novo fator ambiental de loja permitiu entender de que forma esse fator ambiental influencia a intenção de compra no contexto de varejo de lojas autônomas.
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