Time pressure illustrates how consumer experiences time availability and its sacrifice
Perceived time pressure describes the “degree to which one perceives oneself as lacking time relative to the daily tasks of living” .
It occurs when decisions have to be made or special behaviors have to be performed in a time period that is shorter than the period required to adequately complete the task .
Research investigations have established that consumers’ time availability is an important segmentation variable in the convenience and fast-food markets. On the basis of time availability, consumers are grouped as very time-poor, somewhat time-poor, and not time-poor (Jean and Judy, 1995).
In fact, consumers behave differently at different parts of the day; they could be classified as either a ‘morning person’ or an ‘evening person’ (Scott, 2012).