Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship of consumer innovativeness traits and traditional or digital in-store promotional stimuli and their effect on in store unplanned shopping of organic products. Within a framework of trait theory, consumer buying behavior theory and decision-making processes, SEM and r software applied to U.S. retail organic user panel data showed a unique, positive relationship of hedonistic, price-consciousness and quality-seeking traits with domain-specific (organic products) consumer innovativeness. This had a direct, positive effect on traditional and digital stimuli use, as well as leading to unplanned shopping and spending of organic goods. Knowing the traits of those who utilize traditional and digital promotions adds to trait theory and domain-specific innovativeness, an essential dimension under trait theory. Within the decision-making process, it also adds to and clarifies traditional and digital stimuli’s effect on organic users’ unplanned shopping behavior in a technologically changing, post Covid pandemic era.
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DOI
10.20429/jamt.2025.120104
Publication Date
5-2025
First Page
57
Last Page
75
Recommended Citation
Cake, D., Kim, W. and Agrawal, V. (2025). Unplanned in-store purchase behavior of organic grocery product users: Effects of consumer innovativeness traits and traditional and digital promotional stimuli. Journal of Applied Marketing Theory, 12(1), 57-75. ISSN: 2151-3236.