Consumption experience in retail environments: A literature review

Experience has emerged as a research topic in marketing, as a result of the efforts many retailers have made in creating experiential offerings. The academic literature on experience first focused on antecedents and the search for an experience, and on the outcomes of experience, before investigating the actual content of an experience. Retailers’ strategies can be analyzed using frameworks based either on consumers’ participation in the production of the experience or on the extraordinary or ordinary aspects of an experience. The integrating model developed in this research helps to capture the consumer’s shopping experience in virtual as well as physical shopping environments.