The Choice of Retail Outlets among Urban Malaysian Shoppers

The nature of informal food bazaars: Empirical results for Urban Hanoi, Vietnam

“…Thompson, 1967;Zain and Rejab, 1989;Maruyama and Trung, 2007b). Most respondents in our exploratory study indicated that income still strongly matters in their decision-making to choose where to shop.…”

“…Some previous studies report that distance traveled or convenience was not significant with regard to retail outlet choice (see e.g. Thompson, 1967;Zain and Rejab, 1989). Distance was not thought of as an important reason because most of the outlets were located within easy distance from most homes, with the result that no special effort was really needed to reach them.…”

“…Sexton, 1974;Thompson, 1967;Prasad, 1972;Reynolds and Darden, 1972;Darden and Perreault, 1976;Jackson et al, 1985;Robert and Wortzel, 1979); in addition, a few studies included conventional retail stores. Recent studies include other types of outlets such as traditional wet markets that are typical retail arrangements in Asian countries, in addition to supermarket chains and conventional retail stores (Zain and Rejab, 1989;Goldman et al, 2002;Goldman and Hino, 2005;Maruyama and Trung, 2007b). There is no previous literature on consumer choice between formal and informal markets.…”

Supermarkets vs. traditional retail stores: diagnosing the barriers to supermarkets’ market share growth in an ethnic minority community

“…the use of the supermarket only for selected product categories, is another barrier to supermarket market share growth. This ''selective adoption'' phenomenon has been documented in both developing economies (Goldman, 1982;Kaynak, 1985;Miossec, 1990;Yavas et al, 1981;Zain and Rejab, 1989;Othman, 1990) and in developed ones (Goldman et al, 2002). Many of the documented cases of selective adoption involve the perishables category.…”

Comparing the impacts of Internet technology and national culture on online usage and purchase from a four-country perspective

“…The former are ideally represented by a composite of demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. Comparing between these three types of factors, demographic factors are apparently the most instrumental in consumer choice of retail outlets irrespective of country environments (Reynolds and Darden, 1972;Rivas and Grijalba, 1985;Zain and Rejab, 1988;Yucelt, 1988;Bromley and Thomas, 1995;East et al, 1995;Jarratt, 1998;Goldman et al, 1999). Considering the fundamental importance of demographic factors in the retailing scene and the constraint posed by the datasets used that include only two possible national culture-excluded personal factors-gender and age, the within-culture variables are therefore represented by these two factors.…”