Although MacInnis and Price examine imagery processing,they do not define product image in the course of their discussion. In turning to more general marketing literature for an established definition of product image, it quickly becomes apparent that the term is mired in ambiguity. To facilitate an examination of the many and varied ways that the term 'image'is used in marketing, some of the existing definitions of product,brand and store image are presented in Table 1.In surveying these varied definitions, it is evident that the term image is used to describe both the discursive and imagery modes of information processing albeit rarely in the same definition.