{"title":"A STUDY ON REASONS TO CHOOSE MBOS FOR SHOPPING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO READY TO WEAR INDUSTRY IN COIMBATORE CITY","authors":"M. Kumar, A. Narayanan","doi":"10.5958/2249-877x.2017.00086.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-877x.2017.00086.8","url":null,"abstract":"This study mainly aims to know the influencer decision in choosing a Multi-Brand Outlet for shopping. The study aims to detect the reasons that attract the customers to choose MBOs for shopping. This study was conducted for about 50 respondents in Coimbatore city. This study forms a part of the pilot study. The data were analyzed by using percentages, ranking, mean and standard deviation. It was concluded that 36 percent of the respondents are influenced by their friends & relatives to choose a particular retail outlet for shopping and majority of the customers are influenced towards the brand image of the store to choose MBOs for shopping.","PeriodicalId":429402,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal Of Marketing and Management Review","volume":"23 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120985750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics and Marketing","authors":"P. Reddy","doi":"10.4324/9780203119013-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203119013-27","url":null,"abstract":"The ethics of marketing and its relationship with the customers forms a cornerstone to the success of the companies. It is natural that customers expect to be treated in a fair manner and with heed. Reliability of service, trustworthiness, responsiveness, understanding and reception of value addition to products are some of the important expectations of the end consumer. They do not, want, 'lip service', unrealistic, promises, or misleading, offerings. Those products which are inherently poor for the customers must be taken off the shelves as the consumer would never want a product/brand that does not add value to them. So there are ethical dilemmas for marketers to meet these expectations and the corresponding ethical implications are also grand.","PeriodicalId":429402,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal Of Marketing and Management Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132891660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}