While serious questions are being raised about consumer welfare despite the wide acceptance by business of the consumer-oriental marketing philosophy, relatively little is known about consumers's satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
The study reported h...
While serious questions are being raised about consumer welfare despite the wide acceptance by business of the consumer-oriental marketing philosophy, relatively little is known about consumers's satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
The study reported here is undertaken to help fill that void by finding out how satisfied or dissatisfied consumers are with their experiences in arriving at purchase decisions instead of phenomenological consumer satisfaction or dissatisfaction related to the usage or consumpton of products and services. To find out directly from consumers how they felt in a specific buying experience, we have studied the subject by theoretical and empirical research.
Chapter 2 suggests the main aspects and reasons why the prepurchase experience might give rise to dissatisfaction. The aspects include the adequacy of available product alternatives for meeting consumer wants; access to desired prepurchase information; the experience of visiting retail stores; the pace of the shopping experience: the tesk of evaluating and choosing among alternatives; and anxiety about making a satisfactory choice.
The findings of empirical survey in chapter 3 indicate appreciable satisfaction and fail to support the view of widespread discontent with the purchase decision process among consumers. While the findings here constitute only limited evidence owing to potential limitation related to the adequacy of the sampling design in respondents and choice of products, they point to the tentative conclusion that maketers may be succeeding reasonably well in providing acceptable levels of satisfaction to the buying public.
Our results suggest a need for research to learn more about the characteristics of consumers who are expressing feeling of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.