5. Discussion and implications
5.1. Discussion This study examined the impact of specific customer emotions before and after entering a luxury shop on customer evaluations of service quality and attitudes toward the brand, respectively. Specifically, this study examined (1) the effect of the emotions customers felt before entering a luxury shop on customer perceptions of service quality, (2) which service quality dimensions influenced which customer emotions felt after entering a luxury shop, (3) which emotions a customer felt after entering a luxury shop influenced customers' attitudes toward the brand, and (4) the moderating effect of customers' personal attributes such as brand familiarity and shopping motive on each of the three effects