Mass-manufactured foods are ubiquitous in busy daily life. However, consumers still search for food products with handmade feature (Pieniak, Perezcueto, and Verbeke 2009). Market surveys and academic Read More »
“Luxury” is typically defined partly by its premium pricing (Bain and Co. 2014; Grossman & Shapiro 1998; Kim & Ko 2010). Theories on luxury management emphasize that consumers draw inferences on Read More »
Maximizing shoppers’ in-store travel has become an important strategy to trigger unplanned purchasing (Gilbride, Inman, and Stilley 2015; Hui et al. 2013) because longer in-store travel exposes Read More »
Brand elements have been shown to impact perceptions of things even unrelated to the brand or product such as the consumer’s environment (Rahinel and Nelson 2016) and group identity (Torelli et al. Read More »
Glossiness describes how much the surface of an object reflects light in a specular (i.e. mirror-like) way (Nicodemus et al. 1977). Notwithstanding the importance of glossiness in product design, Read More »