• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.312-318
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• 2007

Changing demographics and social values suggest that marketers will see an increase in the number of solo customers. Solo consumer often have different reasons for their solo consumer shopping experience. Proper offer of the shopping environment or services and proper training of the service provider to recognize these different motivation will result in a higher level of satisfaction for all solo consumer. The purposes of this study are to identify the demographic characteristics of solo consumer and investigate the difference of solo consumer' shopping orientation in clothes shopping process. To test research problems, Data were collected by means of a survey questionnaire, which was sent to 250 single in Pusan and Ulsan. In total, 224 were returned and 25 were unusable because of unacceptable levels of missing data. The Results were summarized as follows: First, solo consumer had higher incomes, and higher education experience. Second, solo consumer and non-solo consumer (companion consumer) group had significantly different shopping orientation about ostentationbrand, convenience, and hedonic.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.413-421
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• 2010

This paper investigated the differences in the influence of visual merchandising on solo shopping consumers' store satisfaction and revisiting intention between Korean and American college students. Questionnaires were administered to 210 Korean(Pusan area) and 174 American students(Texas area) who had shopping alone in recent three month. The major findings of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the store atmosphere and display of visual merchandising had a positive effect on solo shopping consumers' store satisfaction in both groups, whereas the convenience layout had a positive impact on store satisfaction in Korean group and the promotion did in American group. Second, the store atmosphere and display of visual merchandising had a positive effect on revisiting intention in Korean group, whereas the store atmosphere, display and layout had a positive impact on revisiting intention in American group.