How do customers change their purchasing behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 67, P. 102963 - 102963

Published: Feb. 10, 2022

Language: Английский

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How to manage and minimize food waste in the hotel industry: an exploratory research

International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 16(1), P. 152 - 167

Published: Aug. 20, 2021

Purpose The hospitality industry is responsible for significant amounts of waste, more than one-third which food waste. Through the comparison between an Italian and a Romanian hotel, this paper aims to provide better understanding waste management trends in hotel as well highlight kitchens services weaknesses opportunities minimize Design/methodology/approach In-depth interviews, personal communication observations were conducted investigate service planning, procurement management, comprehend current individuals’ attitudes, infrastructures, legislative culture either from managerial employees’ perspective. Data analyzed according content analysis approach. Findings Three critical hot spots emerged analysis: prediction check guests’ attendance, transparency with local suppliers among departments within unit purchasing frequency perishable provisioning. accurate forecasting number guests their nationality fundamental avoiding at service, implementing suppliers. Originality/value Although academia authorities have recognized crucial importance research remains under-researched. present exploratory contributes scarce empirical studies about hotels’ giving theoretical recommendations supporting further studies, highlighting need formal deals hotels (food procurement), food-networks that holds together companies, retailers charities donation).

Language: Английский

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Consumer Perception and Understanding of European Union Quality Schemes: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 1667 - 1667

Published: Jan. 31, 2022

Food, agriculture, and labeling, affecting the environment are well connected concepts, balance between them being determined not only by pedological climatic factors or development level of agricultural techniques, but also national governments international organizations’ food processing, trade policies regulations. In this context, European Union (EU) encourages use different quality schemes: “Protected Designation Origin” (PDO), Geographical Indication” (PGI), “Traditional Specialty Guaranteed” (TSG) to protect producers special-quality foods assist consumers in their purchasing decisions. This review examines existing studies on impact these labels customers behavior. A total 32 were found systematized. The papers selected if they featured unique empirical research consumer perceptions any PDO, PGI TSG labels. Using search strategy, a literature analysis was performed based extracted from Web Science, Springer Link, Emerald Insights, Science Direct. Although highlight quite diversified findings, internationally used play an increasing role contemporary society pandemic conditions caused COVID-19, thus making schemes relevant decision-making processes.

Language: Английский

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The Effect of Using Augmented Reality Technology in Takeaway Food Packaging to Improve Young Consumers’ Negative Evaluations

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 335 - 335

Published: Jan. 30, 2023

This paper examines the use of augmented reality technology in design packaging for takeaway food to assist marketing. The research is divided into three studies progressive investigation and analysis. Study 1 collected 375,859 negative evaluations delivery from Internet explored main reasons that may have impacted user’s evaluation by Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling. 2 evaluated effectiveness surveying 165 subjects comparing it with traditional packaging. We conducted a survey 1603 3 used incentive model (TIM) analyze how positively impacts It has been established will influence perception consumers about buying eating takeout food. Specifically, can improve providing more conducive user experience than According our findings, improved consumers’ interaction, perceived vividness, novelty experience, achieved aim promoting retail improving posted users.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Choice Motives: A Systematic Review

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(2), P. 1606 - 1606

Published: Jan. 13, 2023

The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has effected global economy, with main changes expected to affect human life in future, including food consumption. However, could this be assumed as a threshold for suspension of usual rules behind choices? This review highlights choice motivations before, during, and after that have been reported literature date answer research question on motives consumers worldwide. comes up ten key important consumers, namely health, convenience, sensory appeal, nutritional quality, moral concerns, weight control, mood anxiety, familiarity, price, shopping frequency behavior; these continue significant post-pandemic era. Our findings indicate it is too premature give definite answers what post-COVID-19 era will like. Consumers’ perceptions attitudes toward new are contradictory, depending country study, average age, sex study group. These controversial results illustrate that, consumption, depend population being searched, identified occurring two directions. given three five years when conditions clear number studies published. Even though early fully understand motive changes, defining “new” index consumer satisfaction necessary since can alter sale strategies retail managers, companies, other parties involved agri-food chain.

Language: Английский

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Developing trends in showrooming, webrooming, and omnichannel shopping behaviors: Performance analysis, conceptual mapping, and future directions

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 22(5), P. 1237 - 1264

Published: May 31, 2023

Abstract In an omnichannel era, businesses and marketers need insights into the dynamics of customer shopping behaviors, particularly interplay between omnichannel, showrooming, webrooming behaviors. This study investigates evolution trends research channel behaviors (RCSB) domain, spanning from 1998 to 2022, including Covid‐19 era. The performed a bibliometric review 500 papers in Scopus database. performance analysis reveals annual growth rate nearly 16%, with average citations per document 44, indicating sustained growing interest. Science mapping revealed five distinct cluster themes, showrooming multi‐ omni‐channel contexts; consumer behavior online retail shopping; satisfaction trust multi‐channel retailing; mobile commerce environment; shopping, choice, supply chain management. Furthermore, topics, such as e‐commerce, retailing, remain popular before during pandemic, seen thematic evolution. Our examination maps various topics that gained significance multichannel, experience, social commerce, purchase behavior, covid‐19. Among these, indicate covid‐19 are emerging basic topics. These can steer directions RCSB domain toward examining experiences using digital innovations, e‐commerce (including commerce), strategy

Language: Английский

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Habits, Health and Environment in the Purchase of Bakery Products: Consumption Preferences and Sustainable Inclinations before and during COVID-19

Foods, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(8), P. 1661 - 1661

Published: April 16, 2023

The aim of the research is to investigate whether purchasing decisions about bakery products (bread, snacks and biscuits) are influenced by concerns health, climate change, biodiversity loss food waste. exploratory survey was carried out in two successive moments before during health emergency from COVID-19. Before emergency, face-to-face interviews were using a structured questionnaire. Data analyzed factor analysis, reliability tests descriptive analysis. Structural equation modeling (SEM) employed test hypotheses. results analysis structural equations highlighted that environment represent an important background consumer experience respondents influence attitude intention purchase safe environmentally friendly products. Furthermore, suggest informed, modern aware consumers have direct indirect effects on intentions adopt sustainable attitudes. On contrary, perception relating shops where buy does not always show significant propensity for sustainability. During conducted online. Families confined their homes, buying less stores, prepared many baked goods manually at home. this group shows growing attention points sale tendency use online shopping. changes type purchases importance attributed need reduce waste emerge.

Language: Английский

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Plastic or not plastic? That’s the problem: analysing the Italian students purchasing behavior of mineral water bottles made with eco-friendly packaging

Resources Conservation and Recycling, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 179, P. 106060 - 106060

Published: Nov. 25, 2021

Language: Английский

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Energy poverty as capacity deprivation: A study of social housing using the partially ordered set

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 92, P. 101843 - 101843

Published: Feb. 19, 2024

The energy crisis generated by the Russia-Ukraine war has further highlighted urgency of addressing poverty. A comprehensive understanding its incidence, severity, and drivers is crucial to contrast increasing diffusion effectively. This need even more evident in Italian social housing sector, characterized deep obsolescence building stock economic precariousness users, but still, little examined due scarce availability data. According Capability approach, this paper aims estimate incidence severity multidimensional poverty stocks presenting a pilot survey administering questionnaire 431 households living public Province Viterbo (Italy). Although dual cut-off identification procedure considered traditional approach poverty, it significantly influenced researchers' choices on weights trade-offs between dimensions. Conversely, partially ordered set (poset) does not require any compensation To overcome limits counting adopts poset headcount ratio gap indices. results show high phenomenon among interviewed households: 71,23% experienced severe forms deprivation, which inability cool dwelling summer adequately exerts significant influence. suggests ineffectiveness eligibility criteria measures reducing specific requires long-term structural solutions such as requalification programs.

Language: Английский

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Investigating factors influencing takeout shopping demand under COVID-19: Generalized additive mixed models

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 107, P. 103285 - 103285

Published: April 22, 2022

Language: Английский

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