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The Qualitative Study on the Customer Experience of Shopping Centers - Focused on Comparison between Internal and External Experience Elements on the Fashion Brand Stores -

대형 쇼핑센터에서의 소비자 체험에 관한 탐색적 연구 - 패션브랜드 매장 내·외부에서의 체험요소 비교를 중심으로 -

  • Kim, Jeong Hee (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Jin Hwa (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Pusan National University)
  • 김정희 (부산대학교 생활환경대학 의류학과) ;
  • 이진화 (부산대학교 생활환경대학 의류학과)
  • Received : 2013.12.04
  • Accepted : 2014.02.24
  • Published : 2014.02.28
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Abstract

In this study, the Pine & Gilmore(1998) and Schmitt(1999, 2003), based on previous studies. Recent trends in large department stores and distribution outlets, discount stores and large retail centers, such as the consumer's experience is divided into internal and external fashion brand stores navigation study. Fashion Brand Stores are defined as the inside of the fashion brand store of the form that sells only the products of a fashion company's brand. Meanwhile, shopping center is defined as all the places at the inside and out of the shopping center excluding the inside of the fashion brand store. Likewise, definitions are clarified as such for use. As for the research method for this study, semi-structured focus group interviews were used since they could provide many more data compared to in-depth interviews. Accordingly, data was collected while carrying out free discussions while two to three subjects listened to each other's opinion regarding the key words raised by the interviewer and while thinking about their experience at the inside and outside of the fashion brand stores. As for the subjects, female consumers between the ages of 20 and 50 were targeted, and the interviews conducted with four, seven, four and three women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, were used, respectively. Likewise, there were a total of 18 subjects. Exploratory Study of Customer Experience area was classified into integration of significance and categorization. In particular, the contents were classified into elements of experience inside the fashion brand stores and fashion brand stores outsider experience in the shopping center elements and the elements of the common experience of fashion stores and shopping centers based on the results concerning the key contents identified in-depth from the customer aspect. The key experience elements at the inside of fashion brand stores were identified as VMD experience, emotional experience, and experience of the service provided by sales representatives. As for the key experience elements at the shopping center which is at the outside of the fashion brand store, they included service scape experience, cultural event experience, playful behavior experience. Meanwhile, elements of common experience included educational experience and exclusivity experience and human respect experience, which demonstrated some difference in terms of the contents.

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