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strong evidence of reliability and convergent validity, but discriminant validity must be<br />

improved in further scale refinement attempts.<br />

For Hypotheses 2 through 4, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed in order to<br />

compare the mean scale scores for online and in-store shoppers. Hypothesis 2 states that online<br />

shoppers benefit more from access convenience than in-store shoppers. A comparison of scale<br />

means for these two groups yields an F statistic of 37.59 (p=0.000). Access convenience is more<br />

beneficial for online shoppers (scale mean=6.55) than in-store shoppers (scale mean=5.65),<br />

providing evidence of support for H2. Hypothesis 3 states that online shoppers benefit more<br />

from search convenience than do in-store shoppers; ANOVA here produces an F statistic of 8.57<br />

(p=0.004). The scale mean of 5.88 for in-store shoppers is significantly less than the scale mean<br />

of 6.26 for online shoppers; thus, there is evidence of support for H3. Finally, hypothesis 4<br />

predicts that in-store shoppers benefit from possession convenience more than online shoppers.<br />

The F statistic from this ANOVA is significant (F=11.07, p=0.001); however, the scale means<br />

indicate that the reverse is true. The possession scale mean for in-store shoppers is 5.60, while<br />

the scale mean for online shoppers is 6.23. This finding is quite counter-intuitive; possible<br />

reasons for this result are provided in the next section.<br />

Discussion<br />

This study provides an important contribution to the marketing convenience literature<br />

because it is the first of its kind to utilize the different dimensions of retail convenience to better<br />

understand customer needs. The support for Hypothesis 1 suggests that the dimensions of<br />

convenience are different for the two different types of shopping formats. The expansion of<br />

Seiders, Berry, and Gresham’s (2000) four dimensions of retail convenience to include “assisted<br />

search” is warranted. The five-component solution resulting from the principal components<br />

analysis is evidence of the existence of this newly proposed dimension. Further work in this area<br />

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