Customer-based brand equity creation for online grocery stores

ENGiven the growing worldwide tendencies of online shopping and increasing popularity of online grocery shopping, building customer-based brand equity for online grocery stores is gaining its popularity among business owners and marketers. Building good customer-based brand equity is considered to be one of the crucial goals for online businesses that leads to successful competition and good customer experience. The aim of this research is to determine customer-based brand equity dimensions for online grocery stores. To reach the aim, this paper adopts analysis and synthesis of scientific and practical literature in the field of customer-based brand equity and empirical research of three stages: field analysis, expert interviews and customer survey. 33 dimensions of customer-based brand equity for online grocery stores grouped in 8 dimension clusters were generated from the field analysis and expert interviews. Generated dimensions were provided for the evaluation during the customer survey. Empirical research proved 31 valid dimensions of customer-based brand equity for online grocery stores evaluated as very relevant, relevant and of average relevance. Main drivers of customer-based brand equity for online grocery stores that proved to be very relevant are: saving time, good price, fresh products, quality of service, and reputation of retail chain behind. Key words: customer-based brand equity, brand equity, branding, customer behaviour, e-commerce, retail. [From the publication]