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Analysis of Sales Promotion Effects on Household Purchase Behavior

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approach (about <strong>on</strong>e third) are much smaller than what the elasticity based decompositi<strong>on</strong><br />

suggests (about thee fourth).<br />

In our study, we are dealing with household data. Applying the unit sales<br />

decompositi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>fers the opportunity to derive an insightful decompositi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the promoti<strong>on</strong>al<br />

bump into the relative influence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the three resp<strong>on</strong>se patterns, change in purchase timing,<br />

brand switching, and change in purchase quantity. Figure 8.1 depicts the decompositi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>al unit sales into the three resp<strong>on</strong>se patterns, corresp<strong>on</strong>ding to the decompositi<strong>on</strong><br />

used by Van Heerde et al. (2001). The focal point <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this decompositi<strong>on</strong> is distinguishing<br />

between purchases that would have taken place anyway during the current shopping trip,<br />

versus purchases that are changed in time. A retailer is interested in the degree to which sales<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>s draw c<strong>on</strong>sumers to the store, c<strong>on</strong>sumers that would not have bought currently<br />

from that product category when the promoti<strong>on</strong> would not have been there. Therefore<br />

resulting in an increase <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the current unit sales.<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Promoti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>al unit sales<br />

Figure 8.1:Decompositi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> promoti<strong>on</strong>al unit sales<br />

First <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> all, promoti<strong>on</strong>al unit sales can come from purchases that are either accelerated or<br />

decelerated in time (TA- and TA+). When purchases are not borrowed in time from other<br />

shopping trips, promoti<strong>on</strong>al unit sales either come from regular c<strong>on</strong>sumers (c<strong>on</strong>sumers that<br />

also purchase the brand when it is not <strong>on</strong> promoti<strong>on</strong>, QP) or from n<strong>on</strong>-regular c<strong>on</strong>sumers<br />

(c<strong>on</strong>sumers that normally do not purchase the brand when it is not <strong>on</strong> promoti<strong>on</strong>, BS).<br />

The results <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this decompositi<strong>on</strong> can be found in Table 8.9. The first rows c<strong>on</strong>tain<br />

the results for each product category separately. The last row c<strong>on</strong>tains the decompositi<strong>on</strong><br />

across all product categories. This overall decompositi<strong>on</strong> is derived by decomposing the total<br />

182<br />

Change in time (TA)<br />

No change in time<br />

Accelerated purchases (TA - )<br />

Decelerated purchases (TA +)<br />

Brand switch (BS)<br />

No brand switch (QP)

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