Retail Management
Final Exam
Course Introduction
Retail Management explores the strategic and operational aspects of running successful retail businesses in both traditional and digital environments. The course covers key topics such as retail formats, store location and layout, merchandise planning, supply chain management, pricing strategies, customer relationship management, and trends in omnichannel retailing. Students will learn how to analyze consumer behavior, employ effective marketing tactics, and utilize technology to enhance the retail experience. Through case studies and practical assignments, the course equips learners with the knowledge and skills required to adapt to the rapidly evolving retail landscape and excel in management roles within this dynamic sector.
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Consumer Behavior Buying Having and Being 12th Edition by Michael R. Solomon
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Chapter 1: Buying, Having, and Being: an Introduction to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) Explain the difference between a need and a want?
Answer: The difference between a need and a want is a need is something a person must have to live, while a want is a specific manifestation of a need.
Q2) Die-hard Apple fans post videos on YouTube claiming their affection for Apple products. They most likely have a(n) ________ relationship with the product.
A) self-concept attachment
B) nostalgic attachment
C) interdependence
D) love
Answer: D
Q3) List and briefly characterize four types of relationships a person might have with a product. Provide examples to illustrate each.
Answer: The four types of relationships are: 1) self-concept attachment-the product helps to establish the user's identity; 2) nostalgic attachment-the product serves as a link with a past-self; 3) interdependence-the product is a part of the user's daily routine; and 4) love-the product elicits emotional bonds of warmth, passion, or another strong emotion.
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Chapter 2: Consumer and Social Well-Being
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Q1) Why would Amazon.com create a separate e-commerce site for green products?
Answer: Amazon.com created Vine to sell green products. If a product qualifies for listing, the consumer is provided an added assurance that the product truly is green and that greenwashing has not occurred.
Q2) What is the distinction between cause marketing and social marketing?
Answer: Social marketing is the use of marketing techniques to change some public behavior. Cause marketing is the aligning of a brand with a cause in order to generate consumer support in the brand. Both seek to do good but social marketing benefits the general public while cause marketing primarily benefits the brand.
Q3) When consumers are unhappy with a product, they may file a complaint in the form of legal action, Better Business Bureau complaint, or publishing a negative review. This is called a ________ response.
A) private
B) third-party
C) voice
D) complaint
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) A(n) ________ is a sign that relates to a product by either conventional or agreed-on associations.
A) icon
B) index
C) symbol
D) schema
Answer: C
Q2) A consumer's ability to detect a difference between two stimuli is relative to the strength of those stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The first step in the perception process is called attention.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Interpretation is the last stage of the perceptual process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learning Memory
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Q1) According to the definition of learning, how could a researcher ever show that cognitive learning had taken place in a subject?
A) By removing the conditioned stimulus
B) By measuring a behavioral change that could directly be tied to a previous experience
C) By measuring the brainwave pattern of the subject
D) By relying upon intuitive feel for the amount of leaning the subject had experienced
Q2) ________ memory permits the temporary storage of information we receive from our senses.
A) Elaborative
B) Sensory
C) Cognitive
D) Working
Q3) Explain the term "chunking."
Q4) What does salience of a brand refer to?
Q5) Punishment is one way that instrumental conditioning occurs.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the capacity of short-term memory.
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Chapter 5: Motivation and Affect
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Q1) Which of the following needs from Maslow's hierarchy is addressed by the U.S. Army's advertising slogan "Be all you can be"?
A) Safety needs
B) Belongingness needs
C) Ego needs
D) Self-actualization needs
Q2) The degree to which a person is willing to expend energy to reach a specific need is called ________.
A) motivation direction
B) motivation path
C) motivation scheme
D) motivation strength
Q3) When Sean Jean cologne encourages department store sales people to give any potential customer a vial of its product, the company is attempting to boost consumer involvement by appealing to consumers' hedonic needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain purchase involvement.
Q5) Explain the expectancy theory.
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Chapter 6: The Self: Mind, Gender, and Body
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Q1) ________ is when the person tries to evaluate their appearance by comparing it to the people depicted in these artificial images.
A) Social comparison
B) Self-esteem
C) Real self
D) Ideal self
Q2) A Unilever-sponsored survey which asked American women how they felt about their appearance reported which of the following?
A) Positive feelings about the self were lowest in ethnic groups such as African American and Hispanic women.
B) Older women were more likely to describe themselves as beautiful.
C) The majority of respondents believe women in ads are not realistic.
D) The majority of respondents believe that beauty comes from women's physical appearance.
Q3) ________ refers to the possession of both masculine and feminine traits.
A) Heterosexual
B) Homosexual
C) Amorphany
D) Androgyny
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Chapter 7: Personality, Lifestyles, and Values
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Q1) Conducting motivational research tends to be less expensive than conducting a large-scale, quantitative survey because interviewing and data-processing costs are relatively minimal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Doppelganger brand image is when a product looks like the original but in fact is a critique of it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Myers-Briggs type indicator is based on the work of ________.
A) Karen Horney
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Carl Jung
D) Milton Rokeach
Q4) ________ uncovers consumer's associations between specific attributes and the general consequences.
A) List of values scale
B) Laddering
C) Means-end-chain model
D) Terminal value
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Chapter 8: Attitudes and Persuasive Communication
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Q1) Gasoline is the only commonly purchased product that is priced down to a fraction of a cent. This is the case because buying gasoline is a low-involvement activity, which makes point-of-purchase factors more important.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ considers how people perceive relations among different attitude objects, and how they alter their attitudes to remain consistent.
A) Social judgement theory
B) Foot-in-the-door theory
C) Balance theory
D) Rejection theory
Q3) A component of the ABC model of attitude is ________.
A) behavior
B) cognition
C) affect
D) all of the above
Q4) Discuss the low-involvement hierarchy of effects.
Q5) Explain the principle of cognitive consistency.
Q6) Explain the term "persuasion."
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Chapter 9: Decision Making
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Q1) List and explain the five types of perceived risk.
Q2) Evaluative criteria are the dimensions used to judge the merits of competing options.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A consumer's overall reaction to a product after it was purchased is called feature creep.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a category in the buyclass theory of purchasing?
A) Straight rebuy
B) Innovative rebuy
C) Modified rebuy
D) New task
Q5) Pepsi A.M. was positioned as a coffee substitute. In one test market, Pepsi A.M. was introduced onto a university campus. It was both an immense hit and a total failure. The product always sold out in vending machines, but the consumption of coffee stayed the same and the sale of other Pepsi products declined. In terms of levels of categorization, discuss what created the problem in the test market.
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Chapter 10: Buying, Using, and Disposing
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Q1) Clothing choices are often heavily influenced by the situation in which the consumer needs to wear them.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Anna Jeter has a sudden urge she couldn't resist to buy a new purse; she was engaging in ________.
A) unplanned buying
B) point of purchase stimuli
C) impulse buying
D) none of the above
Q3) Time poverty is creating opportunities for many new products that allow people to multitask.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A membership reference group is made up of idealized figures such as successful business people, athletes, or performers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why are modern industrialized societies dependent upon perceptions of time?
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Chapter 11: Groups and Social Media
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Q1) Explain the two-step flow model of influence.
Q2) Several research methods are used to study reference groups and opinion leadership. ________ methods trace communication patterns among members of a group. These techniques allow researchers to systematically map out the interactions that take place among group members.
A) momentum
B) behavioral
C) sociometric
D) geodemographic
Q3) A(n) ________ is an actual or imaginary individual or group conceived of having significant relevance upon an individual's evaluations, aspirations, or behavior.
A) opinion group
B) demographic group
C) reference group
D) focus group
Q4) Explain the term "lurkers" as it relates to social media.
Q5) Explain the three different reference groups.
Q6) Explain homophily as it relates to opinion leaders.
Q7) What are norms? Why are they important?
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Chapter 12: Income and Social Class
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Q1) The ability of a person to pass from one social class to another is called ________.
A) status hierarchy
B) plutonomy
C) hedonic adaption
D) social mobility
Q2) Sandra decided to become a nurse after several years as an elementary teacher. She still wanted to help people but in a different manner. Sandra's case is an example of which of the following?
A) Downward mobility
B) Upward mobility
C) Horizontal mobility
D) Status crystallization
Q3) George Katona is credited with creating the social class system still used in consumer behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Plutonomy refers to the passage of individuals from one social class to another.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Subcultures
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the basic conflicts common to all teens?
A) Autonomy vs. belonging
B) Rebellion vs. conformity
C) Narcissism vs. conformity
D) Idealism vs. activism
Q2) Couples who are better educated on average and choose not to have children are considered DINKS.
A)True
B)False
Q3) People born between 1946 and 1964 belong to ________.
A) Generation Y
B) The Baby Boomer Generation
C) Generation X
D) The Interbellum Generation
Q4) A ________ is defined as a group whose members share beliefs and common experiences that set them apart from others.
A) network
B) subculture
C) micro culture
D) cohort
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Chapter 14: Culture
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Q1) Fashion with an extremely long acceptance cycle is considered to be classic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some people are offended when marketers refer to an event such as the Super Bowl as sacred. Explain how the concept of sacred in consumer behavior is both the same and different from the concept of sacred in a traditional religious context.
Q3) The story goes that a young George Washington cut down his father's cherry tree with a hatchet. Young Washington was then asked who might have committed this act. Even though the boy feared punishment, George replied, "I cannot tell a lie; I cut down the cherry tree." This story has taken on mythical proportions in the United States. Which of the follow functions does the myth best match?
A) Metaphysical
B) Cosmological
C) Psychological
D) Anthropological
Q4) Define the term "fashion system."
Q5) Define rites of passage. Describe the three rites of passage phases. Give at least two rites of passage examples.
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