Virtualization of consumer consumersand home-centrism

Abstract

The possibility of using advanced information technologies, the Internet and mobile devices has a huge impact on changing the behavior of modern consumers. These changes concern not only the method of making purchases as a part of stationary forms of trade, but above all they contribute to the virtualization of consumer purchasing behavior. The aim of the article is to identify manifestations and recognize the scale of virtualization of selected elements of consumer behavior and to bring the essence of home-centrism, its popularity among Polish society. As a research method used to achieve this goal, secondary research was selected consisting of the analysis of information in the field of marketing, management and psychology as well as research results of independent research agencies.

Keywords

• consumers behaviors
• consumption virtualization
• trends of behavior
• home-centrism