As the extend of market is increasingly expanded since the domestic bakery industry meets consumer demand, the needs of customers for a bakery shop increased and therefore, it requires steady effort and management, even if it is a famous bakery shop.
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As the extend of market is increasingly expanded since the domestic bakery industry meets consumer demand, the needs of customers for a bakery shop increased and therefore, it requires steady effort and management, even if it is a famous bakery shop.
This study is to examine the impact of the image of the bakery shop composed of price, service, convenience, and atmosphere on the customer's perceived value and customer loyalty, and The purpose is to present a way that may affect the improvement of bakery shops’ images.
For the purpose of this study, the bakery stores which have high awareness in in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province such as Paris Baguette, Tous Les Jours, palace bakery, and Verviers were selected as sample of this research.
The population of the empirical research obtained 310 parts of empirical research sample by distributing a questionnaire consisting of 35 questions for customers visiting the bakery shop located in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, and they were analyzed utilizing SPSS 17.0 statistical package program.
Frequency analysis was performed in order to determine the general characteristics of the sample, and a reliability analysis and factor analysis was performed to verify the reliability and validity of the image of bakery stores, customer perceived value, and customer loyalty.
In order to understand the relationship of influence between customer perceived value and customer loyalty in the bakery shop, correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted. The empirical results are summarized as follows.
First of all, the factor of price and atmosphere among the image of bakery shops had a positive impact on customer perceived value. However, service and convenience were appeared as a negligible impact,
Hypothesis 1 that the image of bakery stores have a positive influence on perceive value of customer was adopted in part.
Second, services, price, convenience, ambience factors which form an image of a bakery shop appear to exhibit a statistically significant difference in customer loyalty, and Hypothesis 2 the image of a store would have a positive effect on customer loyalty was adopted.
Third, in order to know the influence of bakery shops’ customer perceived value on customer loyalty, regression analysis was conducted and consequently, regression model appeared to be significant, and
Hypothesis 3 that customer perceived value of bakery shops will have a positive impact on customer loyalty was adopted.
Factors that forms the image of the shop like service, price, convenience and atmosphere as discussed above are the factors that can have an impact to customers each.
Moreover, when customer perceived value is expressed as a positive response, customer loyalty also shows a positive reaction, and therefore, services that customers who visit will be satisfied such as Buy 1 Take 1 or benefits exclusive in the store, discount services for pre-orders, and delivery services are provided in order to obtain new clients,
by collecting the opinions of customers and researching about the products, they present an affordable price, and
They will need to make improvements for services so that customers will leave a positive impression.