A Study on Shopping Orientationss and Store Evaluative Criteria of Fashion Specialty Store Consumer

패션전문점 소비자의 쇼핑성향과 점포평가기준에 대한 연구

The purpose of this study are to investigate the consumer characteristics of fashion specialty store and compare them among different fashion specialty store types. Based on the results, patronage profiles for multi brand shop, maker total shop, mart brand shop, and oulet multi shop are develop, Marketing implications are discussed. Before empirical study, theoretical study was done through reviewing the existing litera-tures and a questionnaire was developed. Data(N=410) were collected via a questionnaire distributed to 469 female consumers who shopped at fashion specialty store in Pusan. The results were as follows ; 1) Factor analysis revealed seven factors of shopping orientations(Brand Conscious, Planning Purchase, Self-confidence in clothing shopping, Economy, Common Style in fashion, Individuality Seeking, and Passive Purchase), and seven factors of store evaluative criteria(Store Atmosphere, Assortment, Quality, Promotion, Price/Information, Sales Personnel, and Convenience). 2)By crosstabulation analysis with $\chi$2-test and multivariate analysis variance with sheff-test, consumer characteristics such as shopping orientations, store evaluative criteria, purchase behavior variables, and demo-graphic variables were significantly different among fashion specialty store types.