AN ASSESSMENT OF RETAIL SERVICE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE RSQS IN SRI LANKAN SUPERMARKETS

dc.contributor.authorNihas, R.R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-28T06:33:03Z
dc.date.available2017-09-28T06:33:03Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstracteterminants of customer satisfaction. It has also become the key to sustainable competitive advantage for mainly service dominant organizations as well as for the grocery retail sector. This study attempts to measure the consumers‟ perception on retail service quality and its impact on customers‟ satisfaction in supermarkets in Sri Lanka. In order to collect primary data,168 retail shoppers from major supermarket outlets in Colombo district were contacted. The Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS), which comprised of 27 retail service quality items under five dimensions namely, physical aspects, reliability, personal interaction, problem solving and policy has been used as the data collection instrument. The results of the study were shown that the retail service quality has a positive correlation with customer satisfaction. Further, 80 percent of the variation has been found which is also in the significant level. It means that, customer satisfaction in the retail supermarket is determined or influenced by the retail service quality. Therefore, service quality is viewed as strategic formula in the marketing practices among retail outlets to enhance the customer satisfaction in both developed and developing countries. Before we come to the general conclusions in the Sri Lankan context, studies among retail service quality should be taken in the various service industries. Further, the concept like retail service quality should be connected with customer loyalty, customer retention and brand equity to get the more insights in the marketing practices of the retail supermarkets. Additionally, we suggested to the future researchers or scholars to carry the research on the factor analysis in order to find out the applicability of RSQS in the Sri Lankan perspectiveen_US
dc.identifier.citationNihas, R.R.(2017). AN ASSESSMENT OF RETAIL SERVICE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE RSQS IN SRI LANKAN SUPERMARKETS.International Conference on Advanced Marketing 2017. Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.p 78.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/17628
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lankaen_US
dc.subjectCustomer Satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectService Qualityen_US
dc.subjectRetail Service Qualityen_US
dc.subjectSupermarketsen_US
dc.titleAN ASSESSMENT OF RETAIL SERVICE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE RSQS IN SRI LANKAN SUPERMARKETSen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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