UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ Dang Van Tuan KEY FACTORS OF RETAIL SERVICE QUALITY AFFECTING SHOPPERS’ PERCEPTION OF RETAIL STORE SERVICE: SUPPERMARKETS VERSUS CONVENIENCE SHOPS IN VIET NAM ID: 22110076 MASTER OF BUSINESS SUPERVISOR: Dr. DINH THAI HOANG Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2014 1 123doc Abstract The purpose of this paper was to determine shoppers’ perceptions of service quality offered in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam supermarkets and small convenience shops. A cross sectional design of explorative nature was adopted for this study to evaluate the shoppers’ perception of the convenience shops and supermarkets. This research was used an existing scale to measure retail service quality and also explores the comparison between the convenience shops and supermarkets.
The objectives of this study have been achieved through study 355 completed questionnaires obtained from Ho Chi Minh City customers were used in the analysis for the main study. There are main five factors positively affect to overall evaluation of retail service quality including physical aspects, reliability, personal interaction, problem solving and policy. Principal component analysis was used for scale reduction and multiple regression analysis was used to find associations. The result of this study recommend that the competitive strategies for convenience shops are to concentrate on willingness to assist or in helping the customer, skills to solve customers’ problems and providing variety and deep assortment and improvement in cleanliness.
It coincides with customers’ suggestions for improvement such as improving on the physical facilities, displays, shop presentation and arrangement as well as in-store and environment. The competitive strategies for supermarkets are to concentrate policy and personal interaction. From these findings, managerial implications and limitation of this research have been also discussed. 2 123doc CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.2 Research methodology and research scope.
7 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .1 Service quality and customers’ perception .2 Review of Service Quality Models .3 Model and hypothesis .4 Methodology of data analysis .3 Exploration factor analysis .4 Multiple regression analysis. 23 CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH RESULTS .1 Data statistical analysis .2 Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of reliability test.3 Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) .4 Multiple regression analysis for common model.5 Hypothesis testing for Common model.6 Multiple regression analysis of supermarkets.7 Multiple regression analysis of Convenience Shops .8 Hypothesis testing of moderating effect. 40 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION, IMPLICATIONS, AND LIMITATIONS .1 Competitive Strategies for Convenience Shops .2 Competitive Strategies for Supermarkets .3 Limitation and for further research. 52 Appendix 1: The RSQS Items used in the Instrument.
58 Appendix 4: Test result of independence of residuals – Common Model. 61 Appendix 5: Test result of linear relationship - Common Model. 61 Appendix 6: Test result of homoscedasticity of residuals – Common Model. 62 Appendix 7: Correlation indexes – Common Model.
62 3 123doc Appendix 8: Coefficients indexes – Common Model. 63 Appendix 9: Test result of Normality of residuals – Common Model. 63 Appendix 10: Test result of independence of residuals – Convenience shops. 64 Appendix 11: Test result of linear relationship - Convenience shops.
64 Appendix 12: Test result of homoscedasticity of residuals – Convenience shops. 66 Appendix 13: Correlation indexes – Convenience shops. 66 Appendix 14: Coefficients indexes – Convenience shops. 67 Appendix 15: Test result of Normality of residuals – Convenience shops.
68 Appendix 16: Test result of independence of residuals - supermarkets. 68 Appendix 17: Test result of linear relationship – supermarkets. 68 Appendix 18: Test result of homoscedasticity of residuals – supermarkets. 69 Appendix 19: Correlation indexes - supermarkets.
70 Appendix 20: Coefficient indexes - supermarkets. 71 Appendix 21: Test result of Normality of residuals – supermarkets. 71 4 123doc CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Retail service quality has drawn attention of researchers and managers in recent decades (Zeithaml, 2000). It has become very much important in the competitive environment and widely used by the retailers as one of the important strategy because of its impact on customer satisfaction.
The retailing industry plays a crucial role in the overall economy of Viet Nam.