Honors Program
University Honors
Date of Award
5-2022
Thesis Professor(s)
Kelly Price-Rhea
Thesis Professor Department
Management and Marketing
Thesis Reader(s)
Lana Becker
Abstract
Within the retail sector, two sections have grown drastically with the help of each other in the past decade. Those two sections include online retail and second-hand retail. Online retail has grown remarkably due to the implementation of online atmospherics. This phenomenon led to the purpose of this study: to observe the online atmospherics present in online second-hand retail. To achieve this purpose, the literature related to online retail, target audience, motivations of consumers, reselling, and online second-hand apps was explored. For this study, five online second-hand retail sites were chosen. Eighteen of the most common online atmospherics were observed to be present, not present, or unable to determine in these online second-hand retail sites. Results showed notable findings including the importance of white space. Based upon the results of this study, managerial implications are offered.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Manuel, Hope, "Online Atmospherics in Second-hand Retail" (2022). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 709. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/709
Copyright
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