Comparison of the Linguistic Message in Advertisements According to the Criteria of Effective Writing

There have been many attempts to form an explanatory theory of how advertising works, but no one has yet postulated a theory of merchandising. Drawing heavily on the developing science of environmental psychology, which studies the effects of physical environments on human behaviour, a theory of merchandising is established. The theory proposes that in-store behaviour, assessed in terms of approach—avoidance, is determined by emotional responses to merchandising stimuli, tempered by the characteristic response sets of the shopper.