Exploring supermarket loyalty card analysis to identify who buys fairtrade

Fred Yamoah, Andrew Fearne, Rachel Duffy

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how supermarket loyalty card data from a panel of over 1.7 million shoppers can be analysed to provide insights to profile the fairtrade shopper in order to enhance making targeted marketing decisions. The paper demonstrates the huge marketing potential that loyalty-card-based shopper segmentation can bring to objectively describe who buys fairtrade products, compared to profiling shoppers through a claimed/reported behaviour data-set. A paired-samples t-test is used to test the degree of appeal of fairtrade tea, coffee, chocolate, drinking chocolates, banana and sugar categories in Tesco to life-stage and lifestyle shopper segments in terms of their retail sales values over 104 weeks. The results show that analysing loyalty cards based
on actual behaviour provides a more detailed picture of how specific fairtrade food product categories appeal to the various life-stage and lifestyle shopper segments.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)328-346
Number of pages18
JournalThe International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research
Volume24
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2014

Keywords

  • loyalty card data
  • ethical shopper
  • market segmentation
  • fairrade
  • cross shopping

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