Atitude do consumidor em relação às marcas próprias de supermercados: um estudo exploratório / Consumers attitude towards supermarkets own brands: an exploratory study

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The retail sector is going through major changes due in order to meet efficiently and effectively the demands of the consumer in a highly competitive environment. Thus, the creation and implementation of strategic actions that provide competitive differentials for retailers have become essential in the day to day of retailing. The adoption of own brands in the mix of products in supermarkets is an example of these strategies. However, it is perceived a slow growth of own brands market share in Brazil, which reflects the attitude of consumers towards these products. Understanding consumer behavior and attitude toward own-brand products is important to the better comprehension of this phenomenon. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the components of consumer attitude related to products of own labels. To reach the goal of this study, there were made revisions on the literature about retail, own brands and its development in Brazil, and the attitude of consumers toward the own labels products. The fieldwork had exploratory nature with quantitative approach. Through a survey composed by a self-administered questionnaire, based on the model of the theory of reasoned action (TRA) of Fishbein, it was possible to collect opinions of supermarket customers. That constituted a part of the research which aimed to evaluate the attitude of the consumer toward own brands . The sample consisted on 983 persons of both sexes from the 26 Brazilian states, with predominance of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. The results show that the respondents do not hold a very favorable image to own brands products. This find can be explained by the wide variation in the quality of products within the categories and between categories offered, the perceived risk, the lack of effective communication about the products and the image of inferiority transmitted by attributes of own brand products such as packaging, price and the form of exposition. The most important component obtained with the implementation of the TRA model to predict the behavioral intention was the attitude. Among the factors obtained in factor analysis, those who exert more influence on respondents behavior are the image of the store, communication and price as well as quality and price. From the regression analysis, it was concluded that the majority of the influence on behavioral intention of respondents was derived from perceived risk, quality, store image and influence of close people.

ASSUNTO(S)

consumers attitude supermarkets own brands marca própria de supermercado varejo atitude do consumidor retail

ACESSO AO ARTIGO

Documentos Relacionados