Factors Affecting Consumers Buying Behavior at Supermarkets
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[pic 1]INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, KARACHIFactors Affecting Consumers BuyingBehavior at SupermarketsByAbdullah KhuawjaAreeba KhanHasana NaseemHinaZainabSubmitted to:Usman Ali WarriachTerm Proposal Methods of Business ResearchFACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMERS BUYINGBEHAVIOR AT SUPERMARKETSABSTRACTThe objective of the research is to find the customers buying behavior in a Supermarket. For this purpose 200 respondents will be asked to participate in the research after the collection of data correlation analysis, regression and descriptive analysis will be done. The respondents are those people who visit supermarkets on regular basis along with the direct respondents who visited Chase, Naheed and Imtiaz Supermarket with their consent in Karachi. A questionnaire is prepared and the data will be gathered through survey. The main focus of the study is to find out the impact of Quality of product, availability of product, sales promotions offered in a super marts and the environment given to consumers have any impact on buying decision or behavior of the consumer. Hypotheses are applied and results are conducted accordingly.Keywords: Consumer buying behavior, products Quality, Availability of Brands, Sales promotion and Environment.Table of ContentsBackground and Introduction 4Background of the Study5Statement of Problem5Research Questions5Objective of the Study5Significance of the Study5Limitation of Study5Scope of Study6Assumptions6Definition of Keywords6Literature Review7Introduction7Theoretical Framework11Hypothesis11Research Method12Research Design12Type of Research12Method of Research12Objective of Research12Scope of Research12Approach of Research12Time Horizon13Study Setting13Type of Investigation13Philosophy of Research13Population and Sample14Sample Unit15Sampling Technique14Sample Size14Instrumentation14Variable14Validity Test14Reliability Test14Ethical Consideration15Data Analysis Plan15      Reference 16Introduction and BackgroundIntroductionSuper marts are becoming a necessity of large cities as the time is passing rather than just being an option of convenience for the customers, the reason for this change and sudden popularity and demands for the super marts among the common people are varies as they provide a relaxing environment and people got safe from the hassle of buying different things from locations and so on. In addition to all this promotion related to prices becomes a factor also for its attraction and popularity towards public, as the consumer demands and choices are changing day by day due to the extensive amount of new brands and products super marts are able to capture most of the kind of customers in the market due to its vast variety of products in it.
Along with many factors the major concern that mall owners  have is to make an irresistible price strategy for its buyers and this concern is well understandable also as in the end what matters is that what the customer has bought from the mall and what he took home , as the only thing that have the major impact to retain customers or what makes the customers to come back to that specific mall is the relaxing price given the malls further it has also been observed from several researches that even those customers that didn’t have much knowledge about the pricing can detect changes in the price of their favorite or regular use product by comparing the prices from one mall to another.Consumers and shoppers attracts towards the shopping malls due to several reason that are concluded by following many researches of different authors and those factors can be quality of the product, products quantity as we can see that in shopping malls the consumer don’t have to worry about the quantity of any certain product along with this good and clean environment emerges as a key factors for the attracting of the shopping moreover it is also observed that people consider shopping malls not only for the shopping purpose but also to avail this location as a place to get together with relative and friends, the place where they can now enjoy movies or even dinners with their close ones in a good atmosphere.(Rajasekar,Chandar, 2016)The business contribution is more in shopping malls than the traditional markets as shown in several researches conducted in different cities and even in countries and thus surprisingly the results remains largely same in the favor of shopping malls as the best alternative in replacement of the traditional market. The reason observed in these studies with respect to the continues emerging market of shopping malls are the constant strategies of mall owners to gain consumer trust and loyalty, the results reveal that variety of products holds by stores, sales promotions that shows a good ratio of trends in which buyers gets advantages and comparatively reasonable pricings are the factors that attracts the shoppers (Rajgopal, 2009).To know the reasons in Pakistan regarding the new trend of customers to incline more towards the shopping malls this research is conducted from the Pakistani perspective as very little work can be found on this with respect to Pakistan. By conduction these sorts of studies the benefit of findings can directly go the user end or customers as the mall owners can get insured of the factors that attract buyers and thus they can concentrate more on those factors to facilitate its buyers further it can be helpful in making the strategy and planning the best way to enhance their business in order to maximize their returns.