Abstract

With the increasing public awareness of healthy lifestyles, the demand for organic agricultural products, especially vegetable products, currently continues to increase day by day. Therefore, it will require sufficient information and knowledge about the characteristics, preferences, and satisfaction of consumers with the attributes of organic vegetables to be used as a basis for understanding the needs for organic vegetable consumption. This study aimed to analyze consumer preference for organic vegetables and consumer satisfaction with organic vegetables' attributes. The data collection method used was the purposive sampling technique through distributing questionnaires to 140 respondents. Meanwhile, the data processing methods used in this study were conjoint analysis, IPA, and CSI. The result of the calculation of customer preference in this research showed that packaging was an indicator that had the highest level of importance at 28.99 percent. Hence, it needs innovation by describing the benefits and nutritional content of organic vegetables to increase consumer appeal. Based on IPA results, two attributes' performance had the highest priority to be improved by the company: affordable organic vegetable prices and organic vegetable discounts. Thus, the discounted prices are needed on specific days such as the Anniversary of the company and holidays. Furthermore, based on the CSI calculation results, the customers were considered satisfied with the performance of Top Buah Segar Cibubur. Keywords: CSI, IPA, customer preference, customer satisfaction, organic vegetables

Highlights

  • The food sector is highly needed in the community's life

  • In the analysis of consumer preferences, the results showed that packaging was an indicator that became a consideration for Top Buah Segar consumers in purchasing organic vegetables, followed by the label, type of vegetables, and price

  • Consumers of organic vegetables at Top Buah Segar Cibubur put bok choy, prices according to the condition of organic vegetables, plastic packaging, and labeled organic as factors that had the most preferred level of utility

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Introduction

The food sector is highly needed in the community's life. Most of Indonesia's foods are produced from organic and inorganic agriculture managed by farmers or small-scale agriculture (Hubeis, Widyastuti, and Wijaya 2014). With the increasing awareness of healthy lifestyles, the current demand for organic agricultural products continues to increase. With the increase in land area, there will be opportunities for businesses to market various types of organic vegetables. With these opportunities, sufficient information and knowledge about the characteristics, preferences, and consumer satisfaction with organic vegetables' attributes are required to be used as a basis for knowing the needs for organic vegetable consumption

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