Abstract:
The purposes of this research were: (1) to investigate the personal factors ; (2) to study the decision-making in buying the ready-made clothes; and (3) to study the correction between the marketing mix factors and the decision-making to buy the ready-made clothes. The questionnaire used as the instrument in the study was conducted to 400 sample population consisting of people buying ready-made clothes in Mueng district, Surat Thani province. SPSS for WINDOWS was used to analyze frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Chi-Square.
The research results revealed that most of the customers decided to buy the with the rubric of quality, and then the price. They got the information from the shops displaying the clothes. They themselves decided to buy the clothes from the general shops. The duration to buy was from 12.01 to 18.00 on Saturday. They bought and once a month with the expenses from 501 to 1,000 baht. The overall importance of marketing mix aspect was found to be in the high level, and the separated aspect of sale channel was found to be the most important.
On the test of hypothesis, it was found that the personal information of sex, age, educational background, occupation, monthly incomes, and domiciles correlated to the decision-making in buying ready-made clothes. The marketing mix aspects of products and sale channel correlated to the decision-making in buying the ready-made clothes.