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Supermarket self-checkout service quality, customer satisfaction, and loyalty: Empirical evidence from an emerging market

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  • Demirci Orel, Fatma
  • Kara, Ali

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Supermarket shoppers around the world are increasingly encountering and using self-service technologies (SSTs) during their shopping process. The SSTs are mainly offered to reduce retailer costs and enhance customer's experience. Among the many different SSTs available, self-checkout systems (SCS) have become an extremely popular choice of supermarkets around the world. Although some of the main motivations of the supermarkets for offering SCSs are cost cutting, speed, and convenience, supermarkets are also assuming that these services would enhance customer experience, satisfaction, and ultimately loyalty. However, empirical evidence is needed to better understand customer expectations of SCS service quality and how technology based service quality impacts retail patronage. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine the service quality of supermarket/grocery store SCSs and its impact on customer satisfaction and loyalty in an emerging market, namely Turkey. Using the SSTQUAL scale (Lin and Hsieh, 2011), data (n=275) for the study is collected from shoppers who had just completed going through the self-checkout counter in a large supermarket chain. The results of this study show that SCS service quality positively influences loyalty through the customer satisfaction path. Managerial and research implications of the findings are discussed.

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  • Demirci Orel, Fatma & Kara, Ali, 2014. "Supermarket self-checkout service quality, customer satisfaction, and loyalty: Empirical evidence from an emerging market," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 21(2), pages 118-129.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:joreco:v:21:y:2014:i:2:p:118-129
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2013.07.002
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