Chapter 10: Buying and Disposing Flashcards
Issues related to Purchase and Post-purchase activities
1) Antecedent States
2) Purchase Environment
3) Post-Purchase Processes
Antecedent States (Before the purchase)
Situational Factors Usage contexts Time pressure Mood Shopping Orientation
Purchase Environment
The shopping experience
Point of purchase stimuli
Sales Interactions
Post-Purchase Processes (after the purchase)
Consumer Satisfaction
Product Disposal
Alternative Markets
Relationship marketing
The process of creating, maintaining, and enhancing strong value-laden relationships with customers
A consumption situation
Defined by contextual factors over and above characteristics of the person and the product
Situational effects can be behavioural (e.g., entertaining friends) or perceptual (e.g., being depressed or feeling pressed for time)
Situational self-image
Another reason to take environmental circumstances seriously is that the role a person plays at any time is partly determined by his or her situational self-image
According to which he or she basically answers the question “Who am I right now?
Example: Someone trying to impress his date by playing the role of “gentleman” may spend more lavishly, ordering champagne instead of beer and buying flowers
Co-consumers
Other patrons in a consumer setting
Density
refers to the actual number of people occupying a space
Crowding
the psychological state of crowding exists only if a negative affective state occurs as a result of this
density
Example: For example, 100 students packed into a classroom designed for 75 might be unpleasant for all concerned, but the same number jammed together at a party occupying a room of the same size just might make for a great party
Interestingly, some research has shown that perceptions of crowding in a retail context cause more variety seeking among consumers.
For example, consumers in narrower aisles seek out a greater variety of products than do those in wider aisles
Economic Time
Time is an economic variable; it is a resource that must be divided among activities.
Time Poverty
The feeling that one is more pressed for time than ever before
People may just have more options for spending their time and feel pressured by the weight of all these choices
More so based on perception than to fact
Polychronic activity
wherein consumers do more than one thing at a time
Psychological Time / Temporal Factors
1) Flow Time
2) Occasion Time
3) Deadline Time
4) Leisure Time
5) Time to Kill
1) Flow Time
in a flow state we become so absorbed in an activity that we notice nothing else. This is not a good time to be hitting people with ads. While it’s great when enjoying a movie, in some contexts, like gambling, it can be problematic and lead to more money or time being spent while in flow
2) Occasion Time
This includes special moments when something monumental occurs, such as a birth or an important job interview.
Ads clearly relevant to the situation will be given our undivided attention.
3) Deadline Time
Any time when we’re working against the clock is the worst time to try to catch our attention.
4) Leisure Time
During downtime, we are more likely to notice ads and perhaps try new things
5) Time to Kill
This is when we’re waiting for something to happen, such as catching a plane or sitting in a waiting room. This is bonus time, where we feel we have the luxury to focus on extraneous things.
As a result, we’re more receptive to commercial messages, even for products we don’t normally use.
The researchers identified four dimensions of time:
(1) the social dimension
(2) the temporal orientation dimension
(3) the planning orientation dimension
(4) the polychronic orientation dimension
(1) the social dimension
which refers to individuals’ categorization of time as either “time for me” or “time with/for others”
(2) the temporal orientation dimension
which depicts the relative significance individuals attach to past, present, or future;
(3) the planning orientation dimension
which alludes to different time-management styles varying on a continuum from analytic to spontaneous
(4) the polychronic orientation dimension
which distinguishes between people who prefer to do one thing at a time from those who have multi-tasking timestyles
TIME IS A PRESSURE COOKER
Women who personify this metaphor are usually analytic in their planning, other-oriented, and monochronic in their timestyles. They treat shopping in a methodical manner and often feel under pressure and in conflict.
TIME IS A MAP
Women who exemplify this metaphor are usually analytic planners and have a future temporal orientation and a polychronic timestyle. They often engage in extensive information search and comparison shopping.
Linear separable time
events proceed in an orderly sequence and different times are well defined, as exemplified by the phrase, “There’s a time and a place for everything.”