Ethnicity as a Promotional Tool: Retailing to Emerging Consumer Societies

Barry J. Babin, University of Southern Mississippi
William R. Darden, Louisiana State University

Abstract

American retailers are faced with an increasing array of international expansion opportunities. Since the vast majority of retail patronage and shopper behavior has been conducted using consumers from fully developed consumer societies, retailers can only guess how consumers naive to common retailing practices will react to traditional retailing tools. This paper raises issues related to this problem.