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The role of insights in the development of the shopper environment

The store is a communication channel: every aspect of layout, range, and merchandising communicates something to the shoppers who choose to visit the store. Taking the example of a relatively innocuous piece of merchandising, originally developed to...

Catalogue: Retail and Shopper 2009: The Voice Of The Shopper

Authors: Phillip Adcock, Danielle Pinnington

March 4, 2009

In-store movement and purchasing

This work has proved very successful as it has provided retailers with a technique for assessing the functionality of their stores as selling machines. The technique has two main areas of application. Merchandising performance can be effectively...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Authors: S. J. Thornton, M. J. McCullagh, R. P. Bradshaw

June 15, 1989

Scan 5000

Scan 5000 is the first service tracking permanently consumer consumption and causal data related to the store where they are used to buy. In fact, only 6 % of the household are visiting occasionally large surface stores. In average, a french...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Marc Gauguier, Alain Pioche

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1988

Perceived polarity in retailing

According to Davidson, this polarity was structured along a single axis opposing mass merchandising and highly specialised boutiques with "conventional and often non programmed single line stores" in between. Such a polarity could be observed for...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Author: Marc Filser

September 1, 1987

Children and stores

The subject of children and distribution has never been the object of a specific study. The following report has been drawn from the research which we have been conducting annually in France for more than five years on "the Universe of Aug-14 year...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Marketing To Children And Young Consumer

Author: Armelle Le Bigot-Magaux

June 15, 1984

Analysis of the effect on grocery sales of different promotional strategies

This paper describes the results of a study designed to measure the effects of different promotional activities in stores. Regression analysis, using dummy variables, was used to analyse data obtained from an experimental design incorporating twelve...

Catalogue: Paper 1982: Profitable Cooperation Of Manufactures And Retailers

Author: John Rice

June 15, 1982

Range versus rationalization in frozen foods

There is not so much a conflict between "range" and "rationalization" as a need for balance between the two: a need to determine the "rational range". The starting point towards this goal is to allocate store space to grocery commodities in relation...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: J. F.W. Yaxley

August 1, 1975

Orientation and behaviour in self-service stores

With the help of the explorative method the knowledge of the housewives who buy in large self-service stores about their shop and their behaviour there were examined, with as underlying question, whether a study of behaviour in the shop is possible...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: Gisela Stengel-Guettner

August 1, 1975

Planning and optimising investment in stores

This paper examines the contribution of market research to the location, development and appraisal of individual stores. More attention is new being devoted to this topic as a result of certain trends in European retailing.

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning

Author: M. S. Mons

September 1, 1973