TY - JOUR
T1 - Household pre-purchase practices and online grocery shopping
T2 - e-grocery pre-purchase trajectories
AU - De Kervenoael, Ronan
AU - Hallsworth, Alan
AU - Elms, Jonathan
N1 - This is the accepted version of the following article: "Household pre-purchase practices and online grocery shopping", (2014), Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 13(5), pp. 364–372, ISSN: 1479-1838, DOI: 10.1002/cb.1484, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cb.1484/epdf
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - This paper explores household pre-purchase practices and their mediation by information and communications technologies (ICTs), specifically online grocery shopping. Drawing on practice theory, the impacts of ICTs on household grocery shopping behavior are conceptualized, and the concept of “front-loading” is introduced. Emerging themes generated from 31 semi-structured interviews conducted via Skype with Turkish consumers focusing on their experiences of online grocery practices are presented. To this end, the contribution of this paper is twofold. First, an understanding of the domestication of online grocery shopping and its affect on the dynamics of household decision making, information sharing, and responsibilities of tasks before the actual act of online shopping is developed. Second, how such pre-purchase practices undertaken by consumers act as a catalyst of change at the industry level is appraised.
AB - This paper explores household pre-purchase practices and their mediation by information and communications technologies (ICTs), specifically online grocery shopping. Drawing on practice theory, the impacts of ICTs on household grocery shopping behavior are conceptualized, and the concept of “front-loading” is introduced. Emerging themes generated from 31 semi-structured interviews conducted via Skype with Turkish consumers focusing on their experiences of online grocery practices are presented. To this end, the contribution of this paper is twofold. First, an understanding of the domestication of online grocery shopping and its affect on the dynamics of household decision making, information sharing, and responsibilities of tasks before the actual act of online shopping is developed. Second, how such pre-purchase practices undertaken by consumers act as a catalyst of change at the industry level is appraised.
U2 - 10.1002/cb.1484
DO - 10.1002/cb.1484
M3 - Article
SN - 1472-0817
VL - 13
SP - 364
EP - 372
JO - Journal of Consumer Behaviour
JF - Journal of Consumer Behaviour
IS - 5
ER -