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Erin Percival Carter
Maine Business School, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA

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Journal article
Published: 31 July 2021 in Sustainability
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We examine consumer expectations about how specialty versus conventional food products affect well-being and how small, artisan producers can use that information to design better customer experiences. Drawing on recent work examining the costs and benefits of pleasure- and meaning-based consumption, we investigate whether consumer expectations that specialty products are more meaningful lead to increased desire for additional product information. We selectively sampled from the target market of interest: high-involvement consumers who regularly consume a food (cheese) in both more typical and specialty forms. The authors manipulate product type (typical versus special) within participant and measure differences in expected pleasure and meaning as well as a variety of behaviors related to and preference for additional product information. We find that these high-involvement consumers expect special food products to provide both more meaningful (hypothesized) and more pleasurable consumption experiences (not hypothesized) than typical food products. Consistent with our theory, consumer use of, search for, and preference for additional product information was greater for special products. A causal mediation analysis revealed that expectations of meaning mediate the relationship between product type and utility of product information, an effect which persists controlling for the unexpected difference in expected pleasure.

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Erin Percival Carter; Stephanie Welcomer. Designing and Distinguishing Meaningful Artisan Food Experiences. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8569 .

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Erin Percival Carter, Stephanie Welcomer. Designing and Distinguishing Meaningful Artisan Food Experiences. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8569.

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Erin Percival Carter; Stephanie Welcomer. 2021. "Designing and Distinguishing Meaningful Artisan Food Experiences." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8569.