Exam 3 (ch. 11 & 12) Flashcards

1
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All activities involved in selling goods or services directly to final consumers for their personal, nonbusiness use

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Retailing

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2
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Business whose sales come primarily from retailing

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Retailer

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3
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Retailers can be classified by what 4 things:

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  • amount of service
  • product lines
  • relative prices
  • organizational approach
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4
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What are some characteristics of self-service retailers

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  • customers are willing to self-serve to save money
  • discount stores
  • digital retailers
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5
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What are some characteristics of limited-service retailers

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  • most department stores
  • digital retailer
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6
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What are some characteristics of full-service retailers

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  • salesperson assist customers in every aspect of shopping experience
  • high-end department stores
  • specialty goods
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7
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What kind of product lines are in specialty stores

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Narrow product lines with deep assortments

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8
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What kind of product lines are in department stores

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Some variety of product lines ; each line is operated as a separate department

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9
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What kind of product lines are in supermarkets

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Large, low-cost, low-margin, high-volume, self-service operations

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10
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What kind of product lines are in convenience stores

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Limited line of high-turnover convenience products at slightly higher prices

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11
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What kind of product lines are in super stores

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Wide variety and limited assortment

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12
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What kind of product lines are in category killers

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Giant specialty stores

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13
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Luxury stores have…

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…high margins

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14
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Discount stores have…

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…low margins that are offset by high volume

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15
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Off-price retailers are…

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…stores selling products at lower price than the full price stores (ex. TJ Maxx; Marshall’s

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16
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What organizational approach does corporate chain stores use

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Multiple outlets that are commonly owned or controlled

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17
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What organizational approach does voluntary chains use

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Wholesaler-sponsored groups of independent retailers

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18
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What organizational approach does retailer cooperatives use

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Groups of independent retailers who buy in bulk

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19
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What organizational approach does franchise organizations use

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A contractual association between a manufacturer, wholesaler, or service organization and independent businesspeople who buy the right to own and operate one or more units in the franchise system

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20
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What are 5 retailing trends

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  1. Growth nonstore retailing
  2. Global expansion of major retailers
  3. New retail formats introduced
  4. Growing importance of retail technology
  5. Green retailing
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21
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All activities involved in selling goods and services to those buying for resale or business use

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Wholesaling

22
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A firm engaged primarily in wholesaling activity. Intermediary which purchases products in large quantities and store them until they can be resold. Generally, sell the products they bought to other intermediaries

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Wholesaler

23
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What are 9 functions performed by wholesalers

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  • selling and promoting
  • warehousing
  • risk bearing
  • buying and assortment building
  • transportation
  • market information
  • bulk breaking
  • financing
  • management services and advice
24
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What are three types of wholesalers

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  1. Merchant wholesalers
  2. Brokers and agents
  3. Manufacturers and retailers branches and offices
25
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Independently owned wholesaler business that takes title to the merchandise it handles

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Merchant wholesalers

26
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Bring buyers and sellers together and assist in negotiation, usually in exchange for commissions. Does not own a legal ownership of the products

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Brokers and agents

27
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Wholesaling by sellers or buyers themselves rather than through independent wholesalers

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Manufacturers and retailers branches and offices

28
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What are the 4 wholesaling trends

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  • need for greater efficiency
  • demands for lower prices
  • increased use of technology
  • blurring distinction between large retailers and wholesalers
29
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The blend of promotional tools a company uses to persuasively communicate customer value and build customer relationships

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Promotion mix (AKA marketing communications mix)

30
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What 5 tools are used in promotion mix (marketing communications mix)

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  • advertising
  • sales promotion
  • personal selling
  • public relations
  • direct marketing
31
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Any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor

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Advertising

32
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Short term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service

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Sales promotion

33
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Personal presentation by the firms sales force for the purpose of making sales and building relationships

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Personal selling

34
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Building good relations with the company’s various public’s by obtaining favorable publicity, building up a good corporate image, and handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories and events

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Public relations

35
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Direct connections with carefully targeted individual consumers to both obtain an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer relationships

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Direct marketing

36
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Why do company’s use advertising

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Reaches the masses and is low cost per exposure

37
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Why do company’s use personal selling

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Involves personal interaction and is highly effective

38
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Why do company’s use sales promotion

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Short term to attract customer attention

39
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Why do company’s use public relations

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Gets through as news rather than sale growing attempt

40
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Why do company’s use direct marketing

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Less public; immediate and customized

41
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What are the 4 methods for setting the budget

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  • affordable method
  • percentage of sales method
  • competitive parity method
  • objective and task method
42
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What budgeting method sets at the level they think a company can afford

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Affordable method

43
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What budgeting method is when promotion budget is a certain percentage of forecasted sales

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Percentage of sales method

44
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What budgeting method involves setting promotional budget to match competitors budgets

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Competitive parity method

45
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What budgeting method bases budget on what it wants to accomplish

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Objective and task method

46
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Percent of people in target market exposed

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Reach

47
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Number of times product is exposed

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Frequency

48
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Qualitative impact of message exposure

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Impact

49
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What media timing is evenly scheduled

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Continuity

50
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What media timing is unevenly scheduled

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Pulsing

51
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The net return on advertising investment divided by the costs of the advertising investment

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Return on advertising investment

52
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What are the 7 Public relations tools

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  • product placement
  • news
  • speeches
  • written materials
  • audiovisual materials
  • corporate identity materials
  • public service activities