Although a consensual definition is yet to emerge, shopping deliberateness refers to the pursuit, acquisition and use of information preceding and during a consumption act. As aptly observed by Newman (1977) and Lonial (1983), shopping deliberateness is a matter of degree and manifests itself in reading newspaper advertisements, preparing shopping lists, shopping at multiple stores, frequent shopping (Miller and Zikmund, 1975), consulting personal sources of information (Freiden and Goldsmith, 1989) and in-store comparisons (Yavas et al., 1976).