Test 2: Terminology Flashcards
Complexity
The ease with which consumers can understand and use a new fashion
Cross-Shopping
A pattern of buying both premium and low-priced merchandise or patronizing expensive, status-oriented retailers and price-oriented retailers
Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP)
) A pricing strategy that stresses continuity of retail prices at a level somewhere between the regular nonsale price and the deep-discount sale price of the retailer’s competitors
Impulse Buying
A buying decision made by customers on the spot after seeing the merchandise.
Information Search
The stage in the buying process in which a customer seeks additional information to satisfy a need.
Lifestyle
Refers to how people live, how they spend their time and money, what activities they pursue, and their attitudes and opinions about the world they live in.
Mutliattribute Attitude Model
A model of customer decision making based on the notion that customers see a retailer or a product as a collection of attributes or characteristics. The model can also be used for evaluating a retailer, product, or vendor. The model uses a weighted average score based on the importance of various issues and performance on those issues
Postpurchase Evaluation
The evaluation of merchandise or services after the customer has purchased and consumed them.
Satisfaction
A post-consumption evaluation of the degree to which a store or product meets or exceeds customer expectations.
Store Advocates
Customers who like a store so much that they actively share their positive experiences with friends and family
Gentrification
A process in which old buildings are torn down or restored to create new offices, housing developments, and retailers.
Inner city
Typically a high-density urban area consisting of apartment buildings populated primarily by ethnic groups.
Main Street
The central business district located in the traditional shopping area of smaller towns, or a secondary business district in a suburb or within a larger city.
Accessibility
(1) The degree to which customers can easily get into and out of a shopping center; (2) ability of the retailer to deliver the appropriate retail mix to customers in the segment.
Customer Spotting
A technique used in trade area analysis that “spots” (locates) residences of customers for a store or shopping center.
Geodemographic Segmentation
A market segmentation system that uses both geographic and demographic characteristics to classify consumers.
Utilitarian Needs
satisfied when purchases accomplish a specific task
Hedonic Needs
satisfied when purchases accomplish a need for entertainment, emotional, and recreational experience as in department stores or specialty stores
Factors Affecting Amount of Information Search
Product Characteristic: Complexity, cost
Customer Characteristic: Past experience, perceived risk, time pressure
Market Characteristic: Number of alternative brands
Sources of Information (Internal, External)
Internal: Past Experiences, Memory
External: Consumer reports, advertising, word of mouth
How can retailers limit the information search?
Information from sales associate, provide an assortment of services, provide good assortments, everyday low pricing, credit
Consideration Set
The set of alternatives the customer evaluates when making a selection
Top-of-mind Awareness
Getting exposure on search engines like Google, try to be the top of the page; more stores in the same area
Ways to increase chances of store visit after getting into the consideration set
Increase Performance Beliefs of Your Store
Decrease Performance Beliefs About Competitor
Increase Importance Weight of Attributes on which You Have an Advantage
Add a New Benefit on which You Excel
Postpurchase Evaluation
Post-consumption evaluation of how well a store or product meets or exceeds customer expectations
3 Types of Buying Decisions
Extended Problem Solving: High financial or social risk
Limited Problem Solving: Some prior buying experience
Habitual Decision Making: Store brand, loyalty
Extended Problem Solving and how to engage customers
- Financial, physical, and social risks
- Provide a lot of information and reduce risks for customers
Limited Problem Solving and how to engage customers
Involve moderate amounts of effort and time, occurs when customers have had prior experiences with products/services
Impulse buying
A common type of limited problem solving, influenced by prominent point-of-purchase sales
Habitual Problem Solving and how to engage customers
- Decision involves little to no effort, for purchases that aren’t important or for brand loyal consumers
- Offer good service and rewards to loyal customers