Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets

Retailing is evolving into a global, high-tech industry that plays a major role in the global economy. In the retail industry, hypermarkets have undergone drastic changes since 1990's; they now offer more varieties of products and services to consumers. Along with today‘s modernised store conce...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohamad Tahier, Safuraa Liyana
Format: Thesis
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-mmu-ep.6903
record_format uketd_dc
spelling my-mmu-ep.69032017-09-08T17:49:21Z Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets 2015-06 Mohamad Tahier, Safuraa Liyana HF5410-5417.5 Marketing. Distribution of products Retailing is evolving into a global, high-tech industry that plays a major role in the global economy. In the retail industry, hypermarkets have undergone drastic changes since 1990's; they now offer more varieties of products and services to consumers. Along with today‘s modernised store concepts, consumers' behavior and attitude towards shopping and choice of store has equally evolved. As a result, more and more retailers pursue growth by expanding their operations to other countries. More foreign retailers have also entered the Malaysian market and this has caused aggressive competition among hypermarket retailers in the country. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify the factors that affect the satisfaction and loyalty among customers of local and foreign hypermarkets in Malaysia. This study adapts the Kano‘s Theory to form a theoretical framework to test the research hypotheses. A multi-stage random sampling technique is used to collect a total of 500 data from both local and foreign hypermarkets in Melaka. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences statistics (SPSS version 21) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) - AMOS 21 software were used for hypothesis testing and path modeling. 2015-06 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/6903/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php masters Multimedia University Faculty of Business
institution Multimedia University
collection MMU Institutional Repository
topic HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
Distribution of products
spellingShingle HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
Distribution of products
Mohamad Tahier, Safuraa Liyana
Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets
description Retailing is evolving into a global, high-tech industry that plays a major role in the global economy. In the retail industry, hypermarkets have undergone drastic changes since 1990's; they now offer more varieties of products and services to consumers. Along with today‘s modernised store concepts, consumers' behavior and attitude towards shopping and choice of store has equally evolved. As a result, more and more retailers pursue growth by expanding their operations to other countries. More foreign retailers have also entered the Malaysian market and this has caused aggressive competition among hypermarket retailers in the country. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify the factors that affect the satisfaction and loyalty among customers of local and foreign hypermarkets in Malaysia. This study adapts the Kano‘s Theory to form a theoretical framework to test the research hypotheses. A multi-stage random sampling technique is used to collect a total of 500 data from both local and foreign hypermarkets in Melaka. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences statistics (SPSS version 21) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) - AMOS 21 software were used for hypothesis testing and path modeling.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Mohamad Tahier, Safuraa Liyana
author_facet Mohamad Tahier, Safuraa Liyana
author_sort Mohamad Tahier, Safuraa Liyana
title Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets
title_short Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets
title_full Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets
title_fullStr Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets
title_full_unstemmed Factors Affecting Satisfaction and Loyalty among Customers of Local and Foreign Hypermarkets
title_sort factors affecting satisfaction and loyalty among customers of local and foreign hypermarkets
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Business
publishDate 2015
_version_ 1747829645029408768