Comparison of Consumer Involvement Across PLB Categories in Retail Food

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Abstract

Food retail categories are considered to be have low involvement and have few publications. The aims of this research are to explore the level of involvement of different categories in the food industry and to discover how this involvement affects private label share in each category. A new scale of involvement was constructed using six sources of involvement. The data set includes a consumer survey of 1652 shoppers in conjunction with data mining from sales of food chain retailers. The results showed that when using the proposed scale, a large difference exists in the level of involvement between categories, there are significant differences in the effect of the source on each category, and consumers show a large range of importance that they attach to each source and category. The level of involvement is negatively correlated to its standard deviation. Regression analysis suggests that the level of involvement influences negatively the share of private label brands in the category (percentage of category sales) and the relative number of PLB buyers in the category. These results can aid the retail merchant in introducing new PLB categories.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing - 6th International Conference 2019
EditorsFrancisco J. Martínez-López, Juan Carlos Gázquez-Abad, Anne Roggeveen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages99-105
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783030189105
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event6th International Conference on Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing, NB and PL 2019 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 12 Jun 201914 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Business and Economics
ISSN (Print)2198-7246
ISSN (Electronic)2198-7254

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing, NB and PL 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period12/06/1914/06/19

Keywords

  • Involvement
  • Retail food categories
  • Risk
  • Scale

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