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Reducing competitive research shopping with cross-channel delivery

  • Retailers increasingly focus on preventing competitive research shopping through a closer integration of their retail channels. This integration often focuses on pre-purchase aspects of the purchase process (e.g., tablets in stores to access the online store). Cross-channel delivery might be a post-purchase means to reduce competitive research shopping. One distinguishes between click and collect (delivery from the online shop to the store) and home delivery (delivery from the store to consumers’ home). An experimental study and an adoption model, developed from a large field survey, confirm the positive effects of both forms of cross-channel delivery in reducing consumers’ propensity to research shop competitively. Situational drivers appear to be instrumental especially for click and collect (experimental Study 1), but also emerge as a general driver of value perception of the service in a large field survey (Study 2, n = 1,500). Our results suggest that retailers should communicate relevant, channel-specific benefits of cross-channel delivery (e.g., time savings) to drive adoption and lower competitive research shopping.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author:Anja WeberORCiD, Erik MaierORCiD
Chairs and Professorships:Chair of Marketing Management and Sustainability
Chair of Marketing and Retail
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/10864415.2019.1683706
Parent Title (English):International Journal of Electronic Commerce
ISSN:1086-4415
Place of publication:Armonk, New York
Publisher:M.E. Sharpe Inc.
Volume:24 / 1
Year of Completion:2020
First Page:78
Last Page:106
Content Focus:Academic Audience
Peer Reviewed:Yes
Rankings:AJG Ranking / 3
VHB Ranking / B
SJR Ranking / Q1
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt