Who Shops Where?

Abstract

The Food Industry Research and Development Institute conducted a nationwide survey of 1,200 consumers in Taiwan in 1999. We apply stepwise logistic regression to identify significant sociodemographic factors, such as gender, age, and others, which sway the choice of each of six major types of food markets and to identify promotional factors which positively or negatively influence consumers' preferences for that outlet. For the six market types, sociodemographic factors affect consumers' choices of markets differently in each case, but marketing factors also influence choices of which type of marketplace to use most frequently.