Unit Pricing Empirical Investigations of its Influences at the Prod
With a series of experiments, Lena Himbert highlights the influence of the unit price’s unit of measure on the consumer’s price-level perception and quality perception. Furthermore, this thesis shows that the unit price availability and prominence influen
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Unit Pricing Empirical Investigations of its Influences at the Product and Retailer Levels
Unit Pricing
Lena Himbert
Unit Pricing Empirical Investigations of its Influences at the Product and Retailer Levels With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Stefan Roth
Lena Himbert Kaiserslautern, Germany Dissertation Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2015
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Foreword In addition to the product price, retailers have to indicate the unit price for prepackaged products. For liquid products, the unit price has to be stated as price per hundred milliliters, or price per liter, and for other products as price per hundred grams, or per kilogram. However, although these requirements are binding, retailers have numerous possibilities to influence the indication and presentation of the unit price. For example, there are exemptions for small retailers from unit pricing and retailers can indicate unit prices for small package sizes as price per hundred milliliters or hundred grams, while for larger package sizes the unit price has to be indicated as price per liter or kilogram. With the introduction of unit pricing in the marketplace, research also focused on the indication and presentation of unit price information. In the beginning, this stream of research focused on the question, whether consumers are aware of unit prices and whether consumers take unit prices into consideration when shopping. However, until today there is no sufficient investigation on the aspect, if the indication and the presentation of unit prices can be used to influence the perception and evaluation of certain offers and their prices. Therefore, Lena Himbert se
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