A Study on Fashion Product Purchasing Behavior in Social Commerce

소셜커머스에서 패션제품 구매행동에 관한 연구

  • Ju, ChanHee (Dept. of Clothing, Sungshin Women's University) ;
  • Rhee, YoungJu (Dept. of Clothing, Sungshin Women's University)
  • 주찬희 (성신여자대학교 의류학과) ;
  • 이영주 (성신여자대학교 의류학과)
  • Received : 2014.07.14
  • Accepted : 2014.09.23
  • Published : 2014.12.31

Abstract

In social commerce, consumers can buy products at much cheaper price if the required minimum number of buyers are made. Social commerce has showed rapid growth as an innovative distribution system receiving highlights, however it is true that it hasn't been sufficiently studied. The purpose of the study for presents the direction of growth of the fashion industry with social commerce through qualitative studies. This study is to make a preference group of four people and a non-preference group of four people of social commerce users for the fashion items sold social commerce market and lastly proposes some improvements. The 'preference group' showed high familiarity and preference to social commerce; and they had the tendency of the pursuit of convenience and voluptuous shopping. The revisit of 'non-preference group' preferred open market and, had the tendency of economical shopping and, they are favorable to other categories of social commerce. The reasons of preference were that accessibility was good in fashion products purchasing behaviors in social commerce and, it was convenient and, price was good and new information on cheap and good products were provided; the reasons of non-preference were that the quality of the products and genuineness of articles are doubtful or, the price is not the lowest or, the carried over products were majority. In the perspective of the fashion products in social commerce they answered that it would be brighter but improvements are needed such as supplying exact information, the lowest price, diversified products and the subdivision of category.

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