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Original Article

Open Access Original Article

Sub-Conscious Decision Mapping and Network Framework for Retail Market Consumption

Shuvam Chatterjee1Aritra Kundu2

1 Assistant Professor – ISBM Pune, Nande Campus

2 Strategy & Innovation, Doc Online Health India Pvt. Ltd., Suite 601, #6th Floor, Block B, PSR Prime Tower, Gachibowli Beside, DLF Cyber City, Hyderabad, Telangana – 500 032

Volume 50
Issue 2
Pages 35–51
Year 2020
Received: Jan. 8, 2019 Accepted: Dec. 18, 2019 Published: Feb. 29, 2020
Abstract

Today’s world of marketing is a highly dynamic and volatile place due to high competitive clutter, and hence, every industry needs to accept the understanding of impulsive change as a new standard. This article focused on understanding brand awareness of consumers from an embedded cognitive state. Consumer's decision making for a brand mainly results from both conscious and non-conscious experiences that a consumer has been exposed to. Consumers preserve this brand knowledge in a non-conscious level of their mind. Marketers depend upon the use of multi-sensory metaphors to bring out that digged-in knowledge. This paper introduced ZMET as a method to elicitate hidden understanding about a consumer’s decision making process by stimulating human senses and understanding about the attributes that ultimately contribute in consumer decision making. The research threw light on a qualitative example considering the wellness industry by identifying the hidden metaphors that contributed in understanding the consumer's satisfaction.

Keywords Consumer Loyalty Wellness Industry ZMET Relationship Patterns Attribute Mapping
How to Cite

Shuvam Chatterjee, Aritra Kundu (2020). Sub-Conscious Decision Mapping and Network Framework for Retail Market Consumption. Indian Journal of Marketing, 50(2), 35–51. https://doi.org/10.17010/ijom/2020/v50/i2/150440

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