Brečić R

Filipović J

Gorton M

Lučić A

Sinčić Ćorić D

An intention-behaviour gap often occurs for socially responsible consumption, where despite positive consumer attitudes, sales remain disappointing. This paper tests the ability of in-store priming to increase sales of local foods vis-\ue0-vis imported, cheaper equivalents. Laboratory and field experiments in three countries (Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia), working with an international grocery retailer, assess the ability of textual and pictorial based Point of Sale (PoS) materials to increase purchase of local foods. Field sales data, for the purchase of local apples and cherries and their imported equivalents, are complemented by an analysis of loyalty card transactions. Results indicate that both pictorial and textual PoS materials significantly increase the likelihood of purchasing local foods, against cheaper imported equivalents. Pictorial PoS materials appear more effective than textual equivalents. Laboratory study data indicate thatPoS materials increase the salience of goal consistent mechanisms in decision-making at the expense of mechanisms to achieve non-primed goals

Local food sales and point of sale priming: evidence from a supermarket field experiment

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