Since global economic crisis happened and elders, women who were working, single person households increased, food culture has been changed. Naturally, they wanted to eat their meals quickly or alone without cooking and Home Meal Replacement(HMR) mark...
Since global economic crisis happened and elders, women who were working, single person households increased, food culture has been changed. Naturally, they wanted to eat their meals quickly or alone without cooking and Home Meal Replacement(HMR) market has been expanded. So there have been many various HMR products in many department stores, super stores and convenience stores.
Especially, people are interested in lunch boxes of convenience stores. The convenience stores are located in cities that anyone can find easily. Many customers try to find cheap instant food that they can eat anywhere in there and there are many kinds of food like gimbab, triangle gimbab, sandwiches, bread etc. Most importantly, they want to eat food that is likey that they eat at their homes. Lunch box solves this problem. Actually, The main convenience stores in korea are CU, GS25, Seven-Eleven. They have gotten much profit by selling many lunch boxes. And then they try to release healthy and nutritious lunch box product that can satisfy customer.
Because of expansion of convenience store lunch box market, it is important to know why customers buy lunch boxes in convenience store and whether or not they will buy or recommend them again in the future. So the purpose of this research is to study the effects of Quality attributes of lunch box in convenience store on customer loyalty.
After giving questionnaires to people aged more than 15 years old who had bought lunch box in convenience store, only 207 people wrote them well. There were four Quality attributes on lunch box in convenience store like 'Product characteristics', 'Health', 'Appearance', 'Economical efficiency' by using cronbach's alpha, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in SPSS 22.0. And as a result of structural equation model in Amos 22.0, product characteristics and economical efficiency affect satisfaction of customer on lunch box in convenience store. And also appearance and product characteristics affect repurchase intention of customer and appearance affects recommendation intention positively.
In general, most university students have bought lunch box in convenience store more than one time and their income is lower than 1 million won. And appearance of lunch box in convenience store affects customer loyalty or desire to buy very much.