Wirtualizacja procesu zakupowego konsumentów niepełnosprawnych ruchowo – wymóg czy wybór?
Virtualisation of the Shopping Process in Case of Physically Disabled Consumers – the Requirement or the Choice?

Summary/Abstract: In her article, the author presented the attitude and intents to make shopping on the Internet by consumers with the impaired locomotor system. The author used the author questionnaire of the survey for examining purchasing behaviours of physically disabled people on the Internet. Handicapped consumers indicated significant reasons for shopping on the Internet as well as in traditional points of sale. Virtualisation of the shopping process appeared to be the rather unwanted must than the expected facility. Further surveys should focus on minimising the exclusion as well as on the perceived social responsibility towards the disabled. The carried out survey suggests that disabled consumers are much more interested in traditional shopping than Internet one as it provides them the opportunity for social contacts and to prove they are equipollent market participants. At the same time, business in a broad sense should think more strategically in the course of planning products and services for disabled consumers. This is one of few surveys that empirically approach the problem of perceiving shopping by disabled consumers in Poland. The article is of the research nature.

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