Abstract:
This research had objectives in studying the decision to choose service from modern drug store by consumers in Chumporn Province, studying behavior in using service of the drug store, studying relationship between personal factors and decision to use the service, studying relationship between marketing factors and decision to use the service. The data were collected by using questionnaire filled in by 400customers who used the service of modern drug store in Chumporn Province. The statistics employed in data analysis ere frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation and Chi square test.
The study found that most of the samples were female, 31 - 40 years old, single, holding bachelor degree, government employees, with monthly income between 15,001 - 20,000 Baht, without congenital disease, living with family having 3 - 4 members, moving in from other Amphur of Chumporn Province, knowing the drug store because of its nearness to the living place, infrequent use of the service, spending 51-100 Baht per visit, use the service because of trust in the pharmacists and the need to buy medicine for personal use, buying medicine for common ailments, asking for recommendation on the use of medicine from the pharmacists, telling the symptoms and asking the store to arrange for proper medicine, without any fixed time of day in using the service and make won decision in using the service. Marketing factors affecting decision in choosing of modern drug store by customers in Chumporn Province in overall had high level of importance while the result from considering each aspect separately there were 6 aspects having high level of importance, in the decreasing order, namely: physical environment, sale channel, personnel, product, pricing, service process and with one aspect, marketing promotion, at intermediate level of importance. On personal factors such as gender, age, marital status, religion, occupation, congenital disease, number of family member, domicile were all related to decision in choosing service of the drug stores significantly at 0.05 level. On marketing factors such as products, pricing, sale channel, marketing promotion, personnel, service process and physical environment were also related to the decision in choosing the service significantly at 0.05 levels as well.