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Packaging-free products: A lever of proximity and loyalty between consumers and grocery stores

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  • Didier Louis

    (IUT Saint-Nazaire - Institut Universitaire de Technologie Saint-Nazaire - UN - Université de Nantes, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

  • Cindy Lombart

    (Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School)

  • Fabien Durif

    (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal)

Abstract

This research investigates the consequences for retailers and their stores of a new sustainable consumption trend—the purchase and consumption of bulk products. It examines the effects of offering packaging-free products on three subdimensions of perceived proximity (identity, process, and relational) and on transactional loyalty (satisfaction–loyalty) and relational loyalty (satisfaction–trust–loyalty). A total of 1407 buyers and consumers of bulk products at a convenience store (of a university cooperative style) filled out an online questionnaire. These consumers were then divided into three subgroups (convinced, pragmatic, and wary). This research empirically establishes that unpacked products are a strategic tool for retailers and their stores to create or strengthen the relationships established with their customers. Unpacked products and the proximity they create between a consumer and a store are the first link in the development or preservation of a relational chain between the consumer and the store. Moreover, the step reached by the consumer in his process of purchasing and consuming packaging-free products (from the discovery stage to the already well-established habit) has a direct impact on the relational chain built.

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  • Didier Louis & Cindy Lombart & Fabien Durif, 2021. "Packaging-free products: A lever of proximity and loyalty between consumers and grocery stores," Post-Print hal-03379616, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03379616
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102499
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    1. Kumar, Prashant & Utkarsh,, 2023. "Effects of in-store information quality and store credibility on consumer engagement in green retailing," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
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    3. Elisa Monnot & Fanny Reniou & Sarah Lasri, 2023. "Packaging-free products: when retailers and consumers (re/mis) appropriate the packaging functions," THEMA Working Papers 2023-20, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
    4. Paweł Brzustewicz & Anupam Singh, 2021. "Sustainable Consumption in Consumer Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: Topic Modeling on Twitter Data Using LDA," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-20, September.
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