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The Effect of Customer Perceived Quality and Customer Satisfaction to Store Performance: An Empirical Case of DOLLARSChen, Chia-chi 17 July 2006 (has links)
As the consumer market grows vigorously in recent years, the warehouse clubs and hypermarkets that were at the end of channel have replaced wholesalers to become the leaders of the retailing market. Under this circumstance, competition among all retailers is more and more fierce. The retailers must not only emphasize on ¡§quantity¡¨ to control the prices, but also place the importance on ¡§quality¡¨ to attract all consumers.
According to the statistical data of The Ministry of Economic Affairs, it could be concluded that whether retailing business or hypermarkets still grows positively in recent years. Therefore, there are more and more competitors entering the retailing business. How retailers maintain their own competitive advantages and avoid not eliminating through competition would be the greatest and most vital challenge for all retailers.
This research regards hypermarket retailers as the main research object, probing into the correlation among customer perceived quality, customer satisfaction and store performance. By sending out questionnaires, this research did a survey to analyze the customer perceived product and service quality. Moreover, this research also made a study of the relationship between customer perceived quality and customer satisfaction, and the relationship between customer satisfaction and store performance.
Through the real analysis, it could be concluded that product perceived quality has a positive influence on product satisfaction in the retailing business. If the retailers of hypermarket could promote the evaluation of product perceived quality, it would become a key factor to improve customer satisfaction. Also, Service perceived quality would influence service satisfaction positively. Workers in the retailing business should offer customers pleasing service and correct shopping information. These are the key factors to progress service satisfaction. As for the relationship between customer satisfaction and store performance, it might be affected by different characteristics and structure of customers. In other words, the relationship might be non-linear.
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