Mkt 301 - final exam Flashcards
Relation to consumers and real estate
- all retailing is apart or real Estate development
- retail is curious about the location
- marketing what anyway want to shop in that type or store
- Located near profitable areas
- Shopping goods
- Population impacts income is a factor
understored/overstored
Not enough retailers vs too many retailers
Not enough people to support the stores
undermailed/overmalled
Same concept-> few shopping malls, too many shopping malls
Industry structure
- Around 2 million retailers in the united states
- Heavy food and auto component
- About 2/3 are involved with food
- About 1/3 are involved with auto
- Total industry sales: $4 Trillion
- Originally have retailers in every city/region/area
- 1980s major consolidation amongst retailers
Evolution in the U.S
1850: Department Store (Macy’s)
1880: Direct Mall (Sears)
1915: Chains (Walgreens)
1930: Grocery Supermarkets, Classic Strip Malls (A&P)
1950: Discounters, Classic Regional Malls
1962: Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target
1975?: Membership Warehouses
1985: Off Pricers, Outlets
1990: New Discounters and Mall
1995: Online Retailing
Five general trends across all forms
- Non-Store and Multi-Channel Strategies
-Door to door selling - Increased Private Branding
-All retailers are doing this - Hybrid Concepts
-Start with a model and then corporate another model
half discount and half market - New store Formats and Prototypes
-supermarket and regular - Ongoing Industry Consolidation
hyper market
offers everything under one roof
Video: Mall of America
-Unique shopping experience + amazing entertainment
4.2 million square feet
-520 stores (something for everyone)
-Legoland
-Retail store
-Entertainment theme park
-Mix of retail, entertainment
-$1.8 billion dollars in sales
-Leasing department looking out for new stores and trends to bring it back to the mall
–Entrepreneurial program to launch new stores
400 million customers each year 40% are tourist 6% international
-150 mile radius customer coverage
-1/3 of visitors are outside their trade radius
-5 minutes from an international airport
-Partners with southwest airlines
-Stage two
-Includes hotels, spas, restaurants
-Accommodations to tourist
_____ is communication and one of the 4P’s
Promotion
The promotional mix: also 4 parts
- Advertising
- Public Relations
- Personal Selling
- Sales Promotions
(2) Sales Promotions
- Consumer
2. Trade of “Channel Members”
IMC definition
Integrated Marketing Communication
-Mix and match sales and promotion techniques to form an integrated plan
Push Aimed
Promotes intermediaries to carry the product
Pull Aimed
Generates end user demand to get intermediaries to carry the product
5 step process in promotion
1. Specify Objectives Goals 2. Budget Methods and Allocation (Budgeting) Naive Percentage of Sales Parity Objective and Task 3. Campaign issues 4. Various Details (Schedules) The specifics on what, when, and how to do it 5. Assessment Evaluate it
(5) Budgeting methods
Naïve %Sales Parity Objective Task
Possible ad objectives
- New Product Introduction
- Open 50 Accounts
- Build Channel Relationships
- Improve awareness
Message strategies (4 major)
- Humor
- problem with humor it isn’t funny anymore after you watch it - Fear
- scare you
- gets into social marketing
- offer a resolution - Sex
- carl jr - Emotion
- guilt
- babies
- dogs
- grandparents
Media choices (pros/cons) Old
Television Radio Print Outdoor Yellow pages
Media choices (pros/cons) New
Direct TV Sirius Online Versions Out-or-home Internet Social Media
What is the major media choice?
TV
Push
Manufactures/Distribution
Pull
Consumers
(4) Various sales promotion objectives
- Trial
- Brand Switching
- Inoculation
- Inventory Shifts
Consumer promotion methods:
product related
Product related Samples Packaging Premiums Contests/Sweepstakes Placements
Consumer promotion methods:
Price related
Rebate
Coupons
Cents off Deals
Continuity plan
Rebate abuses
Most consumers don’t turn in rebates
Continuity plans/rewards programs
- Frequent flyer programs
- Reward programs
- Lock consumers in with a promotion so they always use your product
“Side effects” from promotions
Company’s get hooked on these methods and continually increase the amount or discounts of sale promotion
Statistic of all spending on consumer sales promotion
2/3 of all spending on consumer sales promotion