Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study marketing mix, purchase decision, and marketing mix affecting consumer decision to purchase ready-to-eat frozen foods from 7-Eleven stores in Phrae Province. The infinite population of this research was customers who bought ready-to-eat frozen foods from 7-Eleven stores in Phrae Province. The sample selected by accidental sampling was 400 customers who bought ready-to-eat frozen foods from 7-Eleven stores in Phrae Province. The instruments used were questionnaires. The percentage, mean, standard deviation, and multiple regression analysis were the parameters used for statistical analysis. The results revealed that the overall opinion of customers on marketing mix for ready-to-eat frozen foods from 7-Eleven stores in Phrae Province was at a high level, in which price was ranked as the highest followed by distribution, and promotion respectively. Regarding the opinion on purchase decision on ready-to-eat frozen foods from 7-Eleven stores in Phrae Province, it was overall at a high level, in which post purchase behavior was ranked as the highest followed by purchase decision, problem recognition, information search, and evaluation of alternative respectively. In addition, the hypothesis testing result showed that the marketing mix components which affected purchase decision on ready-to-eat frozen foods from 7-Eleven stores in Phrae Province with statistical significance at 0.05 were product, price, promotion and distribution.