scholarly journals An Overview of Customer Loyalty, Perceived Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction: Brief on Saudi Grocery Stores

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naif Mutlaq Al Otaibi ◽  
Kausar Yasmeen

Lack perceived quality in Saudi Arabia has been repeatedly identified as one of the most formidable barriers to people for engaging in customer loyalty.Despite, the widespread establishment of shopping malls all over the country, the statistics revealed that Saudi consumers, although trying grocery shopping in some shopping malls, still prefer to do their grocery shopping activities in traditional grocery stores and convenience stores (Othaim, 2012).This paper provides an overview perceived service quality and customer satisfaction which affect Saudi customer loyalty,,and it reviews relevant previous studies that investigate the relationships among said three variables.  This paper provides the critical remarks and direction for future research.

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
DAM TRI CUONG ◽  
NGUYEN THANH LONG

This study aims to examine the relationship between the service quality, price, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty for the convenience stores in Ho Chi Minh City. These relationships were tested with a sample of 358 customers at convenience stores in Ho Chi Minh City. By using the partial least squared structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with SmartPLS software for data analysis. The finding showed that service quality has a significant positive effect on both of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. The finding of this paper also showed that price has a significant positive effect on both of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. The finding also showed that customer satisfaction has a significant positive effect on customer loyalty. From the above results, the study offers implications for managers and directions for future research.


Author(s):  
Tariq Saeed Mian

Maintaining a strong and loyal customer base is the objective of every organisation. However, in reality this is difficult to achieve in the current competitive environment. When the widespread challenges of the business environment are taken into account, organisations cannot simply plan to absorb new customers but instead adopt the strategy of preserving existing customers and promoting their loyalty to the organisation. This study examined customer loyalty in the banking sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A theoretical model was constructed through an extensive literature review and by extracting the most relevant and important variables for customer loyalty. A questionnaire was used to collect data from customers of different banks. Regression results showed that service quality significantly influences customer satisfaction and customer trust. Furthermore, customer satisfaction and trust significantly affect customer loyalty towards banks. In this respect, service quality is imperative to maintain customer loyalty through customer satisfaction and trust. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Kunthi A. Kusumawardani ◽  
Saras Asa Hastayanti

Logistics are not only playing a significant role in the business process, but they can also add value to the business, and even also determine the life of the firm. Due to its significance, the advancement of logistics is inevitable. Customers want everything faster, and they are even willing to pay more for the service. This study provides an empirical investigation of instant courier service customers in Indonesia. A total of 300 valid questionnaires were collected and assessed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The results showed that perceived service quality influences customer satisfaction and trust. On the other hand, logistics service innovation influences perceived service quality but not customer satisfaction. While trust affects customer satisfaction and repurchase intention. Moreover, customer satisfaction influences repurchase intention. This study is one of the first to evaluate and confirm the relations of service quality-repurchase intention in instant courier service. This research contributes to the literature for future research in instant courier service by providing empirical evidence in Indonesia. Keywords— Customer Satisfaction; Logistics Service Innovation; Perceived Service Quality; Repurchase Intention; Trust


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Albert Chong Yan Vun ◽  
Amran Harun ◽  
Jaratin Lily ◽  
Charlie Albert Lasuin

The study of e-consumer behavior is getting more attention in e-commerce related literature. Acknowledging the importance of e-commerce, this study aims to investigate the influence of e-service quality dimensions (efficiency, requirement fulfilment, accessibility, privacy and responsiveness) on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty as well as to understand the mediating effect of customer satisfaction on e-service quality and customer loyalty. The study employed survey strategy using a self-administered questionnaire with professionals working in different industries and business settings located in Sabah, Malaysia. Study results indicated that out of five e- service quality dimensions, efficiency, accessibility, privacy and responsiveness are positively affecting customer satisfaction but in contrast accessibility had insignificant impact on customer satisfaction. Meanwhile, efficiency, accessibility and responsiveness were found to have a positive and significant relationship with customer loyalty. The findings of hierarchical regression indicated that customer satisfaction partially mediated the effects of efficiency, privacy and responsiveness on customer loyalty. Based on these findings, the study implications and suggestions regarding future research are discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-179
Author(s):  
Milcha Handayani Tammubua

This study aims to examine whether self image congruity, retail service quality, perceived service quality influence customer satisfaction and test the role of customer satisfaction mediation variable at customer loyalty distro Urban Surf and Planet Surf in Jayapura. data analysis in this research used multiple regression analysis and hierarical regression to measure independent variable in dependent variable with mediation variable. The results show that customer satisfaction fully mediates the relationship of self image congruity and retail service quality to customer loyalty. Meanwhile customer satisfaction also mediates partially customer relationship perceived service quality to customer loyalty.   Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji apakah self image congruity, retail service quality, perceived service quality berpengaruh pada customer satisfaction dan menguji peran mediasi variable customer satisfaction pada customer loyalty distro Urban Surf dan Planet Surf di Jayapura. Analisis data dalam penelitian ini digunakan analisis multiple regression dan hierarical regression untuk mengukur variable independen pada variable dependen dengan variable mediasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa customer satisfaction memediasi secara penuh hubungan self image congruity dan retail service quality terhadap customer loyalty. Sementara itu customer satisfaction juga memediasi secara parsial hubungan customer perceived service quality terhadap customer loyalty.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Kevin Benitto Hartono ◽  
Lina Salim

Nowadays, shopping malls growth are extremely high in Jakarta area. One of the shopping malls that has existed for a long time and still thrives in Jakarta is Mal Kelapa Gading (MKG). The objective of this research is to examine the impact of experiential marketing and service quality toward MKG’s customer loyalty with customer satisfaction and trust as mediation variables. The data was collected by distributing 233 questionnaires to the residents around the area of the mall. As this research model has passed 11 goodness of fit test indicators, this model has been proven consistent to the empirical data. There are 6 hypotheses in this research, 4 of which are proven true. The results of this research indicate that there is a positive impact in experiential marketing and service quality toward customer loyalty with customer satisfaction and trust as mediation variables. On the one hand, customer satisfaction has become the best mediating variable to strengthen the impact of experiential marketing and service quality toward customer loyalty. On the other hand, experiential marketing and service quality do not affect trust. Trust is useful as a mediating variable if there is an influence from customer satisfaction. Keywords: Consumers’ Satisfaction, Customers’ Loyalty, Experiential Marketing, Service Quality, Trust


Author(s):  
Muhammad Rizwan ◽  
Ghulam Yaseen ◽  
Ashraf Nawaz ◽  
Lal Hussain

The Islamic banking is an emerging concept and has gained valuable acceptance not only in the Islamic countries but all over the world and has a visible growth. The purpose to conduct the current study is to empirically check the effect of consumer attitude towards Islamic banking on the customer’s perceived service quality regarding banking services and customer satisfaction with banking services. The proposed research model also investigate the relationships among variables like perceived service quality, customer satisfaction, customer trust and customer loyalty. A survey questionnaire was designed for data collection from the respondents that are the regular users of Islamic banks in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The method used to collect data was convenience sampling in order to collect data from customers of 4 Islamic banks in Bahawalpur that are Meezan Bank, Bank Islami, Dubai Islamic Bank, and Bank Al-Baraka. Total 200 questionnaires were distributed out of which 163 were collected. Out of 163 collected questionnaires, 157 were in the usable form and used for the final analysis (Regression) using SPSS Ver.20. The results of the study show that attitude towards Islamic banking has a positive impact on the perceived service quality and customer satisfaction regarding the Islamic banking services. Moreover, the results also suggest that perceived service quality also influences customer satisfaction positively, customer satisfaction has positive impact on customer trust and customer loyalty. Furthermore, customer trust also influences customer loyalty positively. The current study enhances the understanding regarding the customer satisfaction, customer trust and customer loyalty and their determinants.


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