Consumers’ Behaviors in Making a Decision to Buy Fresh Vegetables Online
Keywords:
Buying Behavior, Online Fresh VegetablesAbstract
The purpose of this research is to study the decision behavior of buying vegetables online. A quantitative method was employed to collect data from 400 samples. An online questionnaire was used in this research. It was found that most of the samples were female, aged 20 - 29 years and most of their occupations were students. Overall, in terms of the marketing mix used to buy fresh vegetables, it was found that buyers’ satisfaction was at the highest level for the reason aspect, followed by the place aspect, the product aspect, and price aspect, the emotion aspect, and promotion aspect, respectively.
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