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Retail Mkt-Final

Chapter 5

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ELEMENTS IN RETAIL MARKETING Target Market & Retail Offering/Format
TARGET MARKET The market segments toward which the retailer plans to focus its resources retail mix.
RETAIL OFFERING/FORMAT Developing sustainable competitive advantage (advantage over the competition).
CRITERIA FOR SELECTING ATTRACTION Attractiveness: large, growing, little competition "consistent with your competitive advantage"
OPPORTUNITIES FOR RETAILERS TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 1.Customer loyalty 2.Location 3.HR Management 4.Distribution & IS 5.Unique merchandise 6.Vendor Relations 7.Customer Service
CUSTOMER LOYALTY Retailers build loyalty by: -developing strong brand -developing clear and precise positioning strategies -creating loyalty programs
HOW TO BUILD RETAIL BRANDING? Retailers build an emotional tie with customers and have a concise predictable level of quality.
HOW TO BUILD LOYALTY PROGRAMS? -Part of an CRM [Customer Relationship Management] -Save purchase behaviors of members of loyalty programs -Develop personalization marketing effort to customers
LOCATION Location is a competitive advantage (the 3 most important things in retailing)
HUMAN RESOURCES "Employees are key to build sustainable competitive advantage"; develop a positive organization culture; strategies for recruiting and retaining; employee branding.
DISTRIBUTION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS vendor>distribution center>store; by decreasing cost in these three you can decrease price, increase breath and depth, and give better services
UNIQUE MERCHANDISE [PRIVATE LABELS] EX: SEAR'S= KENMORE APPLIANCES; Kmart= Martha Stewart
VENDOR RELATIONSHIP Low-cost efficiency: EDI [electronic data interchange]; Collaborative Planning and Forecasting to reduce inventory and distribution cost. "special treatment"=early delivery and shipment of scarce merchandise
CUSTOMER SERVICE Difficult to achieve since people are very inconsistent, goes beyond just hiring and training; its about your organizational culture.
GROWTH STRATEGIES A)Market Penetration B)Market Expansion C)Retail Format Development D)Diversification
MARKET PENETRATION Existing retail format for existing customers, to make existing customer to visit store more often; Cross-selling ex)when sales-person from one department sells from another!
MARKET EXPANSION Existing retail format for new customers ex)Dunking Donuts at their stores and gas stations
RETAIL FORMAT DEVELOPMENT New retail format with a different retail mix, for the same target market ex) Tesco Expres, Tesco Extra, Tesco Metro etc...
DIVERSIFICATION New retail format for new target market: 1)Related diversification 2)Unrelated Diversification
IMPORTANT STAGE IN STRATEGIC PROCESS? 2ND STAGE: Conduct a situation analysis,a market attractiveness analysis,competitor analysis, and a self-analysis.
TWO IMPORTANT ELEMENTS IN SITUATION ANALYSIS? Market factors & Competitive factors
MARKET FACTORS Size ( large markets attract large firms), growth (more attractive then mature or declining stage), seasonality (resources are needed more during peak time), business cycle (economy)
COMPETITIVE FACTORS Barriers to entry, bargaining power of vendors(less attractive if few vendors control the merchandise sold within), competitive rivalry (frequency and intensity of reactions undertaken by competitors)
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