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shopping environment. How do males and females differ in their evaluation of an online shopping<br />

experience?<br />

In order to answer these questions, this article starts with a conceptual discussion of online<br />

shopping <strong>value</strong>s, <strong>satisfaction</strong>, shopping orientation and gender. Literature in consumer behavior<br />

with a focus on shopping behavior is used to understand the relationships between these variables.<br />

The results of an online experiment which validates some of these relationships are then presented.<br />

Finally, implications for theory and practice are addressed.<br />

Online shopping <strong>value</strong>s and consumer <strong>satisfaction</strong> with the electronic catalog visit<br />

Shoppers’ experiences in connection to an online or traditional store can be categorized into<br />

(1) experiences related to being in the store itself and (2) experiences related to consuming the<br />

products and services obtained from the retailer (Westbrook, 1981). Online store <strong>satisfaction</strong> results<br />

from shopping experience <strong>satisfaction</strong>, product delivery <strong>satisfaction</strong>, product <strong>satisfaction</strong> and when<br />

necessary complaining behavior <strong>satisfaction</strong> (Oliver, 1981). This article focuses on the first step of<br />

the process-the electronic catalog visit- and on consumer <strong>satisfaction</strong> with the electronic catalog<br />

visit. Satisfaction has been defined here as “an evaluation of the surprise inherent in a product<br />

acquisition and/or product experience” (Oliver, 1981).<br />

Consumption experiences have been described according to an information processing and<br />

an experiential perceptive (Holbrook and Hirschman, 1982; Hirschman and Holbrook, 1982). The<br />

information processing perspective describes the consumer as “a problem solver engaged in the<br />

goal directed activities of searching for information, retrieving memory cues, weighting evidence,<br />

and arriving at carefully considered judgmental evaluation” (Holbrook and Hirschman, 1982, p<br />

135) while the experiential view describes the consumer as an hedonist engaged in “playful leisure<br />

activities, sensory pleasures, daydreams, esthetic enjoyment, and emotional responses” (Holbrook<br />

57

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