As well as all other branches of trade, so retail trade itself undergoes various changes and trends with regard to the development of information and communication technologies which affect not only traders themselves but also their customers. It is the retail store environment itself which is one of the decisive aspects of purchase because more than 70% of consumer decisions take place directly at the point of sale. It is the last place which can reverse the purchasing decision. A final customers´ decision is influenced not only by price, quality but also by in-store communication and visual aspects of each store. That is the reason for continuous gathering of feedback on the effectiveness and efficiency of these means of communication in real environment. Besides traditional research techniques there are situations which require the involvement of relatively new research methods. Thanks to the innovative interdisciplinary approach with the use of neuromarketing, it is possible to create effective marketing strategies and thus stimulate the customer attention and emotions. By these emotions, it is possible to achieve better motivation toward purchase and an increase in the number of sales and subsequent raise in income. The paper deals with a complex, interdisciplinary examination of the in-store communication impact on customer visual attention, emotions and related spatial behaviour of customers in grocery stores. Research integrates measurements of mobile eye camera (Eye tracker), mobile electroencephalograph (EEG), face reading technology (FA) and internal position system in real conditions of retail store. The purpose of this research is to recognise the attention, emotional response and spatial customer preferences by means of selected in-store communication tools. At the end of the paper we explain how the neuromarketing methods can be used for better understanding of consumer behaviour at the point of sale.

Today’s consumers experience the brands within numerous in-store and out-of-store contexts, and tend to focus on their holistic experience with the brands across various retail scenarios. Companies, especially in the luxury industry where multiple retail settings contribute to the formation of the brand image, invest considerable funds to create entertaining, exciting, and emotionally engaging experiences. However, researchers have not yet examined how traditional luxury brand factors interplay with experiential factors across multiple retail settings of the brand. In marketing literature, researchers have devoted considerable attention to the effect of store environments on consumer behavior (e.g. Baker et al., 2002; Donovan & Rossitier, 1982; Kotler, 1973). At the same time, academic research has also been conscious of the central role of brand image in the consumer-buying process (e.g. Keller, 1993; Kwon & Lennon, 2009). More recently, these two streams are coming together. Practitioners and academics have argued that creating compelling shopping experiences across multiple environments, and along, and beyond, the entire path-to-purchase is a key challenge for maintaining a certain brand image (Interbrand, 2014; Verhoef et al., 2009). In a luxury brand context, whereas brand managers design most of the strategic implementations of the brand, retailers can increasingly craft value to the brand via the creation of multisensory retail experiences (Spence et al., 2014). Luxury brands, such as Chanel, are continuously growing their retail presence, and identifying ways to cultivate the tradition of the brand and create distinctive and unique brand experiences. However, the academic perspective of investigating luxury brand images in contemporary business contexts has been underdeveloped (Berthon et al., 2009; Miller & Mills, 2012). While this call for more comprehensive and holistic approaches to luxury brand experiences has been raised (Atwal & Williams, 2009), current research predominantly focuses on single aspects of the luxury brand experience, such as in-store multisensory factors (Möller & Herm, 2013), brand owner cues (Tynan et al., 2010), in-store environment cues (Baker et al., 2002), or luxury brand specific factors (Beverland, 2005). The evolving business world needs to implement more holistic and contemporary approaches. By employing the approach of three dimensions store atmospherics (Baker et al., 2002) to luxury brand experiences, this study investigates how consumers integrate traditional brand factors with new factors of consumption. The objective of this article is to understand how various retail settings affect emotional states, which, in turn, affect behavior toward luxury brands. This study addresses the relationship of luxury brand experiences in tight and less controlled retail scenarios, and the ways in which luxury experiences trigger effective successful brand experiences. Utilizing two qualitative studies, the authors consider the interaction between luxury brand experiences and store atmospherics. The paper concludes with relevant implications for academics and practitioners to enable new perspectives on luxury brand strategies, and consumer response to the luxury brand image in the challenging retail landscape.

연구결과의 요약 및 논의 본 연구에서는 농식품의 주요 소비자판매처인 대형할인점과 대형슈퍼마켓을 대상으로 품질 및 고객서비스만족과 구매의 경제적 가치만족이 점포신뢰와 재구매의도에 미치는 영향력을 장기관계지향고객과 단기거래지향고객으로 분류하여 검증하였다. 분석결과, 대형할인점의 장기관계지향고객의 경우 품질 및고객서비스만족은 점포신뢰에 그리고 구매의 경제적가치만족은 점포신뢰와 재구매의도에 영향을 주었고, 점포신뢰는 재구매의도에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타난 반면 단기거래지향고객의 경우 구매의 경제적가치만족 만이 점포신뢰에 영향을 주는것으로 확인되었다. 그러나 대형마트 장기간 관계지향고객에서는 구매의 경제적가치만족이 점포신뢰에 영향을 줌으로써재구매의도를 형성한 반면 단기지향고객에서는 구매의 경제적가치만족과 점포신뢰가 동시에 재구매의도에 영향을 주는 것으로 확인되었다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 다음과 같은 논의를 할 수 있다. 첫째, 대형할인점의 경우 장기관계지향고객은 점포 내 제품의 품질과 고객서비스 수준 그리고 구매 시경제적 가치 등 모든 요소를 고려하여 점포에 대하여 만족하게 되며, 또한 점포가 이들 만족요인을 고객에게 제대로 제공할 때 이용하는 점포에 대하여 신뢰하고 재구매의도를 강력하게 나타난다는 것을 알 수 있다. 따라서 장기간 관계지향고객에게는 점포에 대한 만족수준을 높이는 것이 중요하다. 구체적으로는 최신 정보기술(information technology)을 활용하여이용 고객의 데이터베이스를 구축하고, 개인화된 고객의 특성과 구매행동에 관한 정보를 축적하여 관계지향고객을 선정 한후 이들에게 제품 및 서비스에 대한 정보 및 가격과 판매촉진에 관한 정보를 DM(direct mail)이나 홈페이지에 적극적으로제시함으로써 점포이미지를 높이고 표적고객의 욕구를 충족시켜 점포에 대한 신뢰와 반복구매를 높일 수 있다. 그러나 단기거래지향고객은 구매 시 단지 가격구조나 판촉행사를 통한경제적 가치만을 고려하기 때문에 제조업체 브랜드(national brand)보다는 유통업체 브랜드(private brand)상품을 제시하여가격매력성을 높이고, 시간대별 판촉행사를 통해 고객의 점포에 대한 신뢰를 유도할 필요가 있다. 둘째, 대형슈퍼마켓에서는 관계지향고객이나 거래지향고객 모두가 구매의 경제적가치만을 우선적으로 고려하므로 가격정책에 역점을 둘 필요가 있다. 그러나 장기관계지향고객은 점포신뢰를 통해 반복구매의도를 형성하지만 단기거래지향고객은 직접적으로 재구매의도를 나타내므로 고객의 성향에 따라 분류하여 관리할 필요가있다. 즉 관계지향고객에게는 가격정책을 통하여 점포신뢰를꾀하여야 할 것이며, 거래지향고객에게는 판촉행사나 저가격정책 등으로 직접적인 반복구매를 유도해야 할 것이다.