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Analysis of Sales Promotion Effects on Household Purchase Behavior

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6.4 Linking <strong>Household</strong> and Store Data<br />

Since the individual household serves as the level <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> analysis in this research, the<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>al activity data has to be disaggregated towards the same level. First <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> all, a<br />

specific retail outlet has to be assigned to each household that is a member <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the household<br />

panel. For this purpose, we have determined the primary retail chain for each household,<br />

which is defined as the supermarket where the households spent at least 50 % <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> their<br />

grocery expenses for the last quarter <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1995. This assignment process resulted in 1770<br />

(43.6%) households with a primary store. Next, we assigned a specific primary retail outlet<br />

to each household, based <strong>on</strong> postal code informati<strong>on</strong> (assuming that a household shops at<br />

the nearest by retail outlet bel<strong>on</strong>ging to their primary retail chain). This assumpti<strong>on</strong> is not<br />

very restrictive. Most prior research <strong>on</strong> store choice c<strong>on</strong>cluded that store locati<strong>on</strong> and<br />

travel distance are the most important determinants <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> store choice (e.g., Brown 1989,<br />

Craig, Ghosh, and McLafferty 1984, Huff 1964, Bell et al. 1998).<br />

Figure 6.1 represents the household derivati<strong>on</strong> process, starting with the<br />

household panel and resulting finally in the households remaining in the analysis. The<br />

household panel c<strong>on</strong>sists <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> 4060 households <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> which 1770 households can be assigned to<br />

a primary retail chain. Subsequently, these remaining 1770 households are assigned to a<br />

specific retail outlet from this primary chain, based <strong>on</strong> shortest distance. Then, it is possible<br />

to check whether each specific retail outlet is a member <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the retail panel (indicated by r),<br />

which leads to an analysis set <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> 239 households for which both the household and the<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>al activity data are at our disposal (indicated by h). Unfortunately, 39 households<br />

were not a member anymore <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the household panel in 1996 or 1997. The final household<br />

analysis set therefore c<strong>on</strong>sists <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> 200 households. Only purchases from the primary store<br />

are incorporated in the analyses, as for these purchases both the household data and the<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>al data are available.<br />

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