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Consumers’ Demand and Online Promotion of the Food Retailing Through the E-Commerce Websites in China
Xiaoning Zhu, Qun Zhang, Lingping Zhang and Jiaqin Yang
Corresponding Author: Xiaoning Zhu
Submitted: September 09, 2013
Accepted: September 18, 2013
Published: January 10, 2014 |
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Over the last decade online shopping provides an open window for producers who will market their products and becomes one of the most rapidly growing forms of shopping. In order to take full advantage of the potential offered by the internet, it is essential that the e-commerce websites meet the customer requirements and be prepared and organized with highly usable manner. This study is an attempt to identify the factors that may have an impact on consumers’ probability to buy food through the internet and investigate the current issues and challenges for the top 10 B2C e-commerce websites in terms of promoting food retailing in China. Fuzzy TOPSIS is employed to evaluate the quality of these websites based on the conceptual model of willingness to buy products through internet for the online consumers. The managerial implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
Key words: Consumer behavior, e-commerce, empirical study, food retail market, online promotion, ,
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Xiaoning Zhu, Qun Zhang, Lingping Zhang and Jiaqin Yang, . Consumers’ Demand and Online Promotion of the Food Retailing Through the E-Commerce Websites in China. Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology, (1): 102-111.
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ISSN (Online): 2042-4876
ISSN (Print): 2042-4868 |
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