This master thesis deals with possibilities for addressing customers at point of sale. Its objective is to apply current theoretical approaches to the field of research in order to design a concrete solution for increase of communication effectiveness of dermo-cosmetics products at pharmacies.

I dagens samhälle handlar det om att vara så effektiv som möjligt för att vinna tid. Som Benjamin Franklin en gång sa att ”Tid är pengar”, är något som vi människor allt mer tagit fasta på då vi ställer höga krav på utvecklingen och dess teniska förmågor. Idag har de flesta människor tillgång till en dator med internetuppkoppling som vi dagligen utför sysslor vid. Det kan vara allt ifrån jobbrelaterade aktiviteter, hålla kontakten med nära och kära, söka information om vad som händer i världen och i vår omgivning, till mer nöjesinriktade delar såsom online spel och shopping. Just shopping via internet är något som vuxit väldigt mycket under det senaste årtiondet, de flesta människor idag har förmodligen någon gång köpt något via nätet eller haft tanke på att göra det. Syftet med denna uppsats är att uppmärksamma de säljfrämjande exponeringsverktyg som kunden anser bör finnas med i produktinformationen på webbutikerna för att de ska leda till ett köp hos dem. Detta för att öka kundnöjdheten online. Visionen är att öka förståelsen kring den produktinformation som konsumenten behöver för att kunna känna sig trygg i att handla kläder på internet. Vår kvantitativa undersökning ämnades för målgruppen män och kvinnor i åldrarna 18-35 år men den gemensamma nämnaren av intresset att handla kläder på internet. Undersökningen behandlade frågor som rör exponeringsverktygen på webben. Vi frågade hur respondenterna upplever de säljverktyg som finns idag, de utvecklingsmöjligheter vi funnit som finns inom klädexponeringen samt om de svarande själva hade idéer eller förslag på vad de skulle vilja se i produktinformationen i den perfekta webbutiken. De slutsatser som kunde dras utav vår studie var att en utveckling av de säljfrämjande exponeringsverktygen är önskad av våra respondenter då intresset för att handla kläder via internet är stort. För att konsumenten ska kunna känna sig säker när denne handlar kläder på internet bör webbutikerna arbeta med att skapa den befintliga produktinformationen så lik en fysisk klädexponering som möjligt. Detta kan uppnås genom utvecklingsmöjligheter såsom modeller med olika kroppsformer, virtuell 3D docka enligt egen längd, vikt och mått, virtuell butik samt omfattande produktinformation och högupplösta bilder.Today´s society is all about being as efficient as possible to win time. Benjamin Franklin once said “Time is money”. This is something we human beings have taken seriously as we raise our demand for development and its technological abilities. Today most people have access to a computer with wireless Internet connection from where they perform different chores. It could be anything from work related activities, staying in contact with loved ones, searching information about what’s going on in the world and in our surroundings, to more entertainment-oriented activities such as online games and shopping. Shopping online is something that has grown fast in the fashion industry in the last decade, and most people today have probably bought something or at least have thought of doing so.The purpose of this essay is to highlight the sales promoting exposure tools which the consumer find necessary in the product information found in web shops to lead them to purchase. This is to increase customer satisfaction online. Our aim is to increase the understanding of what the customer needs in form of product information to feel safe when buying clothes on the Internet.Our quantitative study is based on men and women aged 18-53 with a common interest in buying clothes on the Internet. The research deals with questions regarding exposure tools on the web. We asked the respondents how they perceived existing sales tools, the potentials for development in clothing exposure that we found and also if the respondents themselves had any ideas of what they would like to see included in the product information in the perfect web store.The conclusion we could draw from our study was that sales promoting exposure tools are needed by our respondents since the interest in buying clothes online is great. In order to make the customer feel sure when buying clothes on the Internet the web shops ought to work towards making the product information as similar to a physical exposure of the clothes as possible.This can be achieved through new developments such as models of various body types, virtual 3D dolls according to the consumers own measurements and weight, virtual stores and through comprehensive product information and high definition images. / Program: Butikschef, textil och mode

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:08:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 71060100676.pdf: 13299695 bytes, checksum: 94478d79a6d1b70766baa60e911b397b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z / A formatação do ambiente de venda de uma loja é um dos principais instrumentos de que o varejista dispõe para obter vantagens competitivas e incrementar o seu desempenho. O complexo ambiente de loja oferece inúmeros estímulos que afetam o comportamento de compra dos clientes. Em sua experiência de compra, o cliente se guia basicamente pelas emoções e significados despertados por esses estímulos. Este estudo visa entender como emoções e significados captados pelo cliente na loja resultam dos diversos elementos que compõem o ambiente de venda da loja. Partindo dos fenômenos da percepção, do afeto e da cognição aplicados ao ambiente de venda, revisamos os principais estudos abordando a influência do ambiente de venda sobre o comportamento do consumidor em relação à loja, focando suas reações internas e em particular as emoções sentidas e os significados atribuídos ao ambiente de loja pelos clientes. Detalhamos e organizamos o rol dos elementos que compõem o ambiente físico de uma loja, utilizando-o como base para a análise dos efeitos desses elementos sobre os clientes em termos de emoções sentidas e significados atribuídos pelos clientes à loja. Tentando entender como o ambiente de venda da loja se relaciona com as emoções e os significados nele captados, realizamos uma investigação exploratória, de cunho qualitativo e mais descritivo que explicativo, utilizando técnicas como a entrevista parcialmente estruturada complementada por elementos da entrevista de profundidade, e o EmotiScape. Os resultados do estudo, como esperado para uma pesquisa exploratória, cobrem aspectos diversos. Em termos de resultados empíricos, identificamos os elementos ambientais efetivamente percebidos pelos clientes na loja, as principais integrações presentes entre esses elementos ao serem percebidos, e as emoções e os significados a eles atribuídos pelos clientes. Também descrevemos os principais mecanismos que ligam os elementos ambientais percebidos às emoções e aos significados atribuídos ao ambiente de loja. E ainda identificamos e descrevemos as ocorrências de integrações entre os processos afetivos e cognitivos dos entrevistados que resultam da presença dos elementos ambientais. Como contribuição conceitual inicial do estudo, confirmamos a visão dos modelos contingenciais da Psicologia para o fenômeno da percepção, evidenciando que os estímulos do ambiente de loja podem ser percebidos tanto “um a um” como conjuntamente no ponto de venda, passando ainda por casos intermediários, em que um número mais reduzido de estímulos atua conjuntamente para gerar emoções e significados para o cliente. Disto resulta uma aplicação gerencial direta: conhecendo antecipadamente estímulos isolados ou “pacotes” definidos de estímulos associados a emoções e significados específicos, poderíamos formatar intencionalmente o ponto de venda para provocar (ou evitar) determinados efeitos emocionais e cognitivos no cliente, usando o design como ferramenta para desenvolver estratégias mercadológicas e assim produzir o desempenho desejado para um certo ambiente de venda. A segunda contribuição conceitual do estudo diz respeito à comprovação de abordagem relativamente recente na Psicologia, que vê os fenômenos afetivos e cognitivos integrados em um mesmo processo abrangente de processamento de informações pela mente humana. Os resultados deste estudo suportam tal visão ao constatar que os clientes tanto utilizam suas emoções para construir “raciocínios” e julgamentos sobre a loja como, inversamente, constroem arrazoados que desembocam em (ou reforçam) suas emoções sentidas em relação à loja. Por fim, o estudo também avança na utilização de instrumentos de coleta de dados inovadores que podem captar estados emocionais variados (o EmotiScape) e vencer dificuldades de verbalização dos entrevistados para identificar estímulos ambientais percebidos (usando coletâneas de imagens detalhando o ambiente da loja). / The design on the sales environment of a store is one of the key tools that retailers have available to obtain competitive advantages and improve their performance. This complex environment offers several stimuli that affect the clients' purchasing behavior. In their purchasing experience, clients guide themselves, among other factors, by their emotions and meaning aroused by these stimuli. This study has as objective to understand how emotions and meaning derived by the client from the sales environment result from different environmental elements that compose the sales environment of the store. Starting from the phenomena of perception, affection and cognition in the context of the sales environment, we reviewed the main studies on the environmental influence on consumers inside the store, focusing on their internal reactions, particularly on the emotions felt and on the meanings attributed to the store environment by customers. We detailed and organized the list of elements that build up the physical environment of store, using it as base for the analysis of the effects of these elements on customers, in terms of experienced emotions and meanings attributed clients to the store. Trying to understand how the sales environment of store connects with the emotions and meanings aroused by it, we performed an exploratory, qualitative, and more descriptive than explanatory research, using techniques such as the partially structured interview complemented by aspects of the in-depth interview, and the EmotiScape instrument. The results, as expected from an exploratory investigation, cover many aspects. In terms of empiric results, we identify the environment elements actually perceived by clients in the store, the main integration among such elements when being perceived, and the emotion and the meanings attributed to them by customers. We describe the main mechanisms the bind the perceived environmental elements to emotions and meanings attributed to the store environment. We also identify and describe examples of integrations between the affective and cognitive processes which result from environmental elements. As a first conceptual contribution of our research, we confirm the point of view presented by the contigencial models of perception from Psychology, that the store environment stimuli can be noticed 'one by one' or as whole, and also intermediary cases in which a certain number of stimuli act in concert as source of emotion and meanings for the customer. Straight from this fact result an important managerial implication: knowing in advance isolated or packaged stimuli and their potential associations to specific emotions and meanings, we can intentionally shape the point os sale to evoke (or avoid) emotional and cognitive effects on the customer, using the point of sale design as a tool for developing marketing strategies and attaining a desired level of performance for a store. The second conceptual contribution of our study is the validation, in the context of the sales environment, of an approach relatively recent in Psychology, which sees the affective and cognitive phenomena integrated in a larger and information processing scheme performed by the human brain. The results from this study the vision, showing that customers use their emotions to build reasoning and judgments concerning the store as, inversely, build reasoning that result in (on reinforce) their emotion regarding the store. Finally, the study also contributes in advances in the usage of innovative data collection instruments that can measure a diversified range of emotional states (the EmotiScape) and avoid verbal blockages from interview people when reposting perceived environmental stimuli (using collections of images detailing the store environment).

This research study acquired a consumer response centred approach to visual merchandising stimuli, in an attempt to holistically consider this area of the retail industry. Consumers‟ perceptions towards visual merchandising displays and the effect these displays have on consumer behaviour were exposed. The primary research question that pended from the preliminary literature was to determine the effect of visual merchandising displays on consumer perceptions. Explorative research was performed and qualitative data were collected by means of focus groups and naïve sketches. The data was analysed by means of a thematic analysis process. Perceptions of visual merchandising displays that were identified were subliminal in creating an interest and desire to further peruse the merchandise and aesthetically to beautify the store. Consumers expressed that the impact that visual merchandising displays had on their buying decisions depended on their personal preferences. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)

The diploma thesis concerns with the specifics of fashion industry and marketing of fashion brands, with a closer focus and attention on a Spanish clothing brand Zara.The purpose of this work is to offer the reader an overview of marketing methods and tools used by fashion brands to reach, get and keep customers and to specify the actual forms of marketing communication used by the renowned Zara. The goal of the thesis is to find out the awareness of these marketing tools among Czech customers, what they think of the brand itself and then provide suggestions to improve its existing image. The first part gives an overview of available theory on fashion industry and marketing, and it describes and characterises the marketing communication of Zara. The second part is based on own marketing research with the purpose of defining the activity of the brand in Czech environment and unveiling the marketing goals of Zara in the Czech Republic. The aim is to find out the impact of the brand on Czech consumers and whether its idea of own positioning corresponds with the outcome of the consumer reasearch.

This research study aims to obtain a holistic view of the area of store atmospherics, which forms part of the retail industry. A consumer-centred response approach was followed. Store atmospherics and its influence on consumers’ buying behaviour has received very little attention in the literature to date. Consumers’ views on in-store atmospheric elements and the influence of these elements on their buying behaviour were obtained. The primary research aim that was derived from the preliminary literature was therefore to explore the influence of store atmospherics on consumers’ buying behaviour in apparel retail stores in the Tshwane region. The type of research design used in this study was exploratory, making use of a qualitative approach and a communicative technique of interviews. The selected method was focus group interviews and naïve sketches. The data gathered was analysed by means of Tesch’s inductive descriptive coding technique, better known as thematic analysis. It was found that atmospheric elements have the ability to influence consumers in either a subconscious or a conscious way. This has a direct influence on the amount of time that consumers will spend in-store and ultimately influences their buying decisions and behaviour either positively or negatively. This had a direct influence on the amount of time that consumers will spend instore and ultimately influences their buying decisions and behaviours either positively or negatively, meaning that the consumers’ will display either an approach- or avoidance behaviour. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)

This research study aims to obtain a holistic view of the area of store atmospherics, which forms part of the retail industry. A consumer-centred response approach was followed. Store atmospherics and its influence on consumers’ buying behaviour has received very little attention in the literature to date. Consumers’ views on in-store atmospheric elements and the influence of these elements on their buying behaviour were obtained. The primary research aim that was derived from the preliminary literature was therefore to explore the influence of store atmospherics on consumers’ buying behaviour in apparel retail stores in the Tshwane region. The type of research design used in this study was exploratory, making use of a qualitative approach and a communicative technique of interviews. The selected method was focus group interviews and naïve sketches. The data gathered was analysed by means of Tesch’s inductive descriptive coding technique, better known as thematic analysis. It was found that atmospheric elements have the ability to influence consumers in either a subconscious or a conscious way. This has a direct influence on the amount of time that consumers will spend in-store and ultimately influences their buying decisions and behaviour either positively or negatively. This had a direct influence on the amount of time that consumers will spend instore and ultimately influences their buying decisions and behaviours either positively or negatively, meaning that the consumers’ will display either an approach- or avoidance behaviour. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)