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Analysis of Sales Promotion Effects on Household Purchase Behavior

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Summarizing, the results are in accordance with the most c<strong>on</strong>sistently described<br />

relati<strong>on</strong>ships in the literature, the positive relati<strong>on</strong>ship between household size and promoti<strong>on</strong><br />

resp<strong>on</strong>se, and the negative relati<strong>on</strong>ship between n<strong>on</strong>-school age children and promoti<strong>on</strong><br />

resp<strong>on</strong>se. The relati<strong>on</strong>ship between intrinsic and extrinsic variety seeking is not found in this<br />

research, which underlines the importance <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> making this distincti<strong>on</strong>. The difference found<br />

between in-store and out-<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>-store promoti<strong>on</strong>s is a very interesting <strong>on</strong>e. Especially the positive<br />

relati<strong>on</strong>ship between shopping resp<strong>on</strong>sible pers<strong>on</strong>s with a paid job and in-store promoti<strong>on</strong><br />

resp<strong>on</strong>se found is <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> great interest. The combinati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the freedom to enact <strong>on</strong> impulse (large<br />

shopping budget) and the timesaving element <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> in-store promoti<strong>on</strong>s seems to increase the<br />

probability to resp<strong>on</strong>d to these types <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> promoti<strong>on</strong>s.<br />

9.2.1.2 Deal Pr<strong>on</strong>eness<br />

Do c<strong>on</strong>sumers have an intrinsic drive to look for deals and make use <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> these deals? Managers<br />

and researchers have spent c<strong>on</strong>siderable effort trying to identify and understand the so-called<br />

‘deal pr<strong>on</strong>e’ c<strong>on</strong>sumer (e.g., Webster 1965, M<strong>on</strong>tgomery 1971, Blattberg and Sen 1974,<br />

McAlister 1986, Bawa and Shoemaker 1987, Schneider and Currim 1991, Lichtenstein et al.<br />

1995; 1997, Bawa et al. 1997, Ainslie and Rossi 1998). A wide range <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> definiti<strong>on</strong>s and<br />

operati<strong>on</strong>alizati<strong>on</strong>s has been applied, leading to equivocal findings. Deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness reflects<br />

the general propensity to react to sales promoti<strong>on</strong>s. If deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness exists, <strong>on</strong>e should see<br />

similarities in promoti<strong>on</strong>al purchase behavior across multiple categories (Ainslie and Rossi<br />

1998). Most prior research set deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness equal to promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se (e.g., Webster<br />

1965, Blattberg and Sen 1974, Wierenga 1974, Cott<strong>on</strong> and Babb 1978, Bawa and Shoemaker<br />

1987). <str<strong>on</strong>g>Promoti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>al purchase behavior was studied for <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong>e product category, or<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sistencies were sought across several product categories.<br />

But, deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness should not be c<strong>on</strong>ceptualized as isomorphic with actualized<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se. If <strong>on</strong>e inferred it directly from promoti<strong>on</strong>al purchase behavior, the<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sistency found could be caused by for example household characteristics. And as<br />

discussed before, promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se indeed is found to be determined by a number <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

household characteristics. Therefore, the existence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness should be inferred<br />

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