Marketing Papers

Document Type

Technical Report

Date of this Version

12-1998

Publication Source

International Journal of Research in Marketing

Volume

15

Issue

5

Start Page

459

Last Page

471

DOI

10.1016/S0167-8116(98)00017-2

Abstract

We investigate two ways to increase sales and customer loyalty by taking advantage of a store's installed base of current customers. We propose a classification of products into two types. Products of Type 1 are products for which consumers have a loyalty to a specific retailer and, as far as possible, always shop at that retailer for these products. The other products (Type 2) are not associated with any retailer and are bought at whichever retailer consumers happen to shop when they plan or remember to buy the product. With this in mind, we test the potential of two marketing tools to help retailers increase their share of sales of the Type 2 segment. Using a category destination program we show that one can successfully transform Type 2 into Type 1 products. Using cross-merchandising promotions, we show that one can increase the sales of Type 2 products thereby gaining a larger share of discretionary purchases than what one would receive from a straight random allocation. Both series of tests yielded significant increases in sales and profits and were deemed successful by the retailers who implemented them.

Copyright/Permission Statement

Originally published in the International Journal of Research in Marketing © 1998 Elsevier

This is a pre-publication version. The final version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8116(98)00017-2

Keywords

promotion, loyalty, coupons, store traffic

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Date Posted: 15 June 2018

This document has been peer reviewed.