Customer love: Research on the ranking of food and beverage locations

• Authors: Türk Bahar , Erciş Aysel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Intense competition in today’s markets has meant that customer loyalty is no longer as strong as it used to be. In this context, many researchers have aimed to add new values to the concept of loyalty, particularly focusing on the concept of “love”. This study explores customers’ feelings towards location in order to identify their preferred - or “most loved” - food and beverage locations. A questionnaire was administered to 395 adult customers living in the city centre of Erzurum, Turkey. The fuzzy Shannon’s entropy method is used to identify the weights of each criterion of love, while the fuzzy VIKOR method is used to rank alternative locations. As a result of the analyses, the most prominent expression was found as “I love this location!”, and customers’ most loved places were identified as those serving regional dishes in Erzurum Province, Turkey. The study uses fuzzy numbers to rank alternatives according to the criteria of love. In addition, the ranking is based on degrees of fuzziness by changing the α-cut levels of the fuzzy numbers. The study examines how customers’ preferences between alternatives alter via this change

Keywords

EN

retailing; consumer behaviour; customer love; fuzzy Shannon entropy; fuzzy VIKOR

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management & Marketing
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 103-117

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-09-01

Contributors

author

Türk Bahar

• Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey

author

Erciş Aysel

• Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mmcks-2015-0009