This handbook contains 26 chapters detailing theoretical frameworks and research on the retailer-consumer relationship. Researchers in marketing, business, economics, and management from around the world address consumer behavior, buying preferences, and relationships with retailers, including decision making and values in buying, the role of the consumer's self-concept, shopping well-being and ill-being, consumer behavior change in economic crises, store loyalty, and the role of private label products; the retail context, store formats, and retail services, including the role of the service encounter, the outdoor environment, the in-store customer experience, and more.
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