• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.79-102
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• 2006

The importance of the environment in the store is embossed, this is demanded to manage the store environment from the dimension of image improve and customer contacted satisfaction measurement followed with the influence on the store choice criteria. Retail store's managers improve the retailing results by forming the appropriate store environment and giving the customers a pleasant and satisfied purchasing environment to improve the store atmosphere. The expected customer who looks for their store can plant a thesis existing reason of their own store definitely and strongly in theheart of manger and employee. And also, among the store differentiation, the weight of physical environment placed is becoming large day by day, and now can make full use of the competition superiority measure different with the store. This paper will actually analysis that what kind of influence the store environment factors exert on the store choice criteria, and also if the store choice criteria exerts influence on the store value and patronage intention.