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Background: Traditional shopping may influence by existing of online shopping which could lead the changing in consumers’ shopping types especially college students. This study extends our understanding on the main factors that influence college students’ in choosing between online shopping and physical shopping.
Methods: The questionnaire is designed in Hybrid approach and thus convenience and quota sampling is used. 30 samples of questionnaire were contributed to the college students who are come from various colleges in Penang. Those respondents require filling up the questionnaire with series questions about the preference between physical shopping and online shopping. The respondents will not forced in participate in this research but is under voluntary basis.
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Results: There have three factors provided in physical shopping and online shopping to allow respondents make ranking from most important to less important. The most important factor for physical shopping is products sensitive to the shipping time (63.33%), following by looking for personal services and social aspect which are 30% and 6.67% respectively. The important factors for online shopping choose by respondents are easy seek for information provided and cost or price, both are 40% and following by convenience (20%).
Conclusion: Although there have many advantages in online shopping, however, the results show that there are 86.67% of majority respondents are preferred in physical shopping at the end. Furthermore, their opinions have been stated as well in the questionnaire.
Online shopping is growing faster and accepted by consumers to make variety purchases (Donthu, 1999) while physical shopping should not be overlook. Therefore, consumers’ shopping types is related by choice preference behavior (Degeratu et al, 2000). This topic ‘online shopping versus physical shopping’ was chosen is to determine the reason of students’ preference in shopping types.
Every people are taking the advantages to shop online and allow consumers access to the websites easily in anywhere and at anytime. Convenience is the key factors stated by Blakney and Sekely (1994); Gehrt and Carter (1992);Eastlick and Feinberg (1994); Burke (2002); Evanschitzky et al., (2004); Lee and Overby (2004). According to Aylott and Mitchell (1998); Cassill et al., (1997), non- monetary costs [1] categorized under convenience. Time saving consider as important reason for shop online which supported by Morganosky and Cude (2000); Wolfinbarger and Gilly (2001); Raijas and Tuunainen (2001). Consumers are beneficial under time pressure to go shopping mall, make purchases from house under certain uncertainty [2] , trouble free from change or drive to various stores. Besides that, Morrison and Roberts (1998 and Shim et al., (2001) said that convenience included navigation function [3] which may saved shopping time (Szymanski and Hise, 2000) and effort [4] can be saved (Lindquist, 1974). An argument stated by Finance Times (2002) that retailer may face difficulty and disappointed from the purchases bring on.
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Availability of variety information’s [5] provided by e-retailer to the shoppers comes from different places will cause greater accessibility [6] for searching purpose. Burke (2002); Evanschitzky et al., (2004); Lee and Overby (2004) stated that able to do comparison shopping may cause increasing in choices for customers (Rohm and Swaminathan, 2004) and reduce decision-making with few clicks on mouse was mention by Alba et al (1997); Shankar et al., (2003). Comparison can be made in term of price and products comparison. Some more product testimonials and product demonstrations also provided. Anyway, there are show oppositely that consumers tend to rely on the product information provided because failure in see and touch the real products (Alba et al., 1997; Lohse and Spiller, 1998; Lynch and Ariely, 2000; Ward and Lee, 2000). Alba et al., (1997) also stated that shoppers may feel stressful in progressing search jobs.
There have a bit related relationship between cost or price and information. The supplier’s kindly use the online environment provides products related information for reducing products search cost (Janssen and Moraga, 2000; Shankar et al., 1999; Bakos, 1997). It is because retailers no need to pay up the rental, salary and utility every month but some payments have to make such as advertising or maintenance and update of website information is needed. The shopping cost [7] need to take into account except search cost. However, the products price cannot set too high by suppliers for customers because higher price lead to customer unfavorable.
Some of the customers choose physical shopping aim to get personal service stated by (Ramus and Nielsen, 2005) or service quality (Baker et al, 2002; Mazursky and Jacoby, 1986). They able to make complaint, get answer from specific question towards the product to the promoter face to face at a physical store. Therefore, obsolesces products can return or change immediately.
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According to Ramus and Nielsen (2005), social aspect mean as opportunity for family do something together such as purchasing decision have to provided. Anywhere, it also state that the chance to see and meet other people outside of house is provided.
Based on Ramus and Nielsen (2005), product sensitive to shipping time such as vegetables and fruits are more suitable buy in the physical stores. It is because physically examine the quality of products is needed before purchase and for some goods is need to see or smell or touch it (Baker, 2000; Ernst & Young,1999; Citrin et al., 2003) so that the items are good in conditions.
3.0 Research Methodology
There are two types of research methodology stated by (Saunders et al., 2009) which are Positivism [8] , Phenomenology [9] . In this research, the Hybrid approach [10] will be used. Positivism approach is more emphasis, which focusing on the theory testing or deduction in explaining the causal relationships between variables mentioned by previous researchers at the shortest period of time. A small portion of induction approach is included to understand the nature of current issue and also to complement this research.
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The main constraints in conducting this research are cost and time available. Consequently, questionnaire is chosen as the main tool for data collection. There are cost effective when compare to interview. Questionnaire is more familiar to most people. Nearly everyone has had some experience completing questionnaires and they generally do not make people apprehensive. Respondents are more likely to cooperate under voluntary basis. It is also relatively quicker to collect data using a questionnaire.
A total of 30 students will be selected randomly from various colleges in Penang by using convenience and quota sampling method. The questionnaire is distributed to the students during their break time and those respondents are expected to complete the questionnaire within five to ten minutes time.
This research has been approved by the module lecturer, Ms Elaine Chan through the fast track ethical approval form [11] . Students are not forced to participate in this research but are entirely on a voluntary basis. The respondents will be informed about the procedures and risks involved before the participation.
The information provided will be treated with strictly confidential and the respondents are assured that identifying information are secured and will not expose to other parties who is not involved in this research. Respondents will also remain anonymous throughout the study, even to me. It is of great importance that confidentiality and anonymity are maintained throughout the research.
The questionnaire [12] contains five questions, each with their own sub questions. A series of questions will be asked to respondents about their preference in shopping types. Respondents are not required to fill in their name in the preliminary stage of the questionnaire.
Question 2.0 asked about the experience of students using online shopping. The sub question in this section, Question 2.1 asked students whether have experience in online shopping before. Students have experience it before are able to proceed the next two questions and vice versa. Question 2.2 asked for time in hour(s) will be spent in online shopping per week and Question 2.3 asked the desirable of students seeking during online shopping in generally.
Question 3.0 is designed to know the factors that influence students prefer in physical shopping. Ranking method from 1 to 3 is used to determine the factor which is most influencing for students.
The last Question 5.0 is an open-ended question. Respondents are allowed to briefly explain their own opinion on the important factor that cause them choose in shopping type. The purpose of open-ended question is to obtain more relevant information from respondents include view of point and understanding their reason in choosing the shopping type. The information obtained is more reliable than close-ended question.
6.0 Data Analysis
The questionnaire was contributed to female and male respondent equally (Appendix 3).The data is collected from respondents come from various college in Penang (Appendix 5) and there are in the age group between 18 to 20 (20%), 21to 23 (66.67%) and more then 23 (13.33%)show in (Appendix 4).
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Appendix 6 shows that 17 out of 30 respondents have experience in online shopping before. Refer to Appendix 7, 73.33% of female respondents and 40% of male respondents have shop online, while the percentage for non online shopper for female and male are 26.67% and 60% respectively. Based on. The time spend of online shopper have been given in hour(s). Most of them are spending 1 to 10 hours (88.24%) per week, following are 11 to 20 hours (5.88%) and more than 21 hours (%)which has show in Appendix 8. Therefore, there are purposely looking on services, merchandises and price information, travel product and enjoyment and which are 58.82%, 23.53% and 17.65% respectively (Appendix 9).
Majority of respondents are chosen the products sensitive to shipping time (63.33%) is the most important factors to cause them shop physically, following are looking for personal services (30%) and social aspect (6.67%). It is show in Appendix 10. For online shopping, the result is show in Appendix 11. The cost or price and easy seek for information provided are highly chosen by respondents as the most influencing factor. Both of them are 40% out of 100% while 20% of respondents are chose in convenience.
86.67% of respondents which are 26 persons are preferred in physical shopping than online shopping (Appendix 12). Respondents’ opinions also have summaries out (Appendix 13). The method of confidence intervals (CI) for percentages and proportion from estimation analysis is used. The analysis is using 95% of CI and the outcome show that the preference in physical shopping is between 74.97% and 99.03% (Appendix 14).
The Chi-Square testing is used to test the existence of association between gender and times spend on hour for online shopping. At a significant level of 5%, do not reject null hypothesis (Ho) is the result stated there is no association between gender and times spend on hour for online shopping (Appendix 15). The same significant level, 5% have been used in test the existence association between gender and types of shopping under Chi-Square testing method. The result is show in do not reject null hypothesis (Ho) which is there is no association between gender and types of shopping. From the both results, there are do not reject null hypothesis (Ho) due to 30 sample are chosen, insufficient information to reflect the general population.
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7.0 Conclusion
The using of online shopping is beneficial for us. However, there is result show that 87% of the respondents are preferred in physical shopping. The point of view of respondents have stated as the reason in their preference. Minority of respondents, 13% who are prefer in online shopping and the most reason has been stated is convenience. Based on the result shown, although there are many people familiar with online shopping, in the end, they are also more prefer in physical shopping.
7.1 Limitation and Recommendation
Only 30 samples were chosen due to time and cost constraint. This may not consider as population. Large sample of respondents who are come from various colleges in Penang are recommended for further studies and intend to get more relevant result. Face-to-face interview and open-ended question should be use in the questionnaire so that better understanding from respondents view and standpoint is allowed.
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I am student from Disted College from the Staffordshire University Business programme. I am conducting a research among students who are studying in college while this research as a part of my assignment or the subject, Research Methods. The objective of this research is to determine the reasons of student preference in online shopping or physical shopping.
This research is conducted as part of my final year project in fulfilment of my Business Degree with Staffordshire University. The questionnaire consists of THREE pages, including this cover page and has been structured to allow you to complete it with ease. All the relevant instructions have also been included in the questionnaire. It should take you about five to ten minutes to complete it and your genuine feedback is highly appreciated.
1.1 What is your gender?
1.2 What is your age?
1.3 Which college are you come from?
If you have experienced it, how many hours do you spend on online shopping per week?
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5.1 Which shopping mode do you prefer?
5.2 Please state your reason based on Question 5.1.
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