The 5 Types of Shoppers This idea of focusing on the best current customers
should be seen as an ongoing opportunity. To better understand the rationale
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Loyal Customers: They represent no more than 20% of our customer base, but
make up more than 50% of our sales. Christian
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NeedBased Customers: They have a specific intention to buy a particular type
of item. Wandering Customers: They have no specific need or desire in mind when
they come into the store. Rather, they want a sense of experience and/or
community.
If we are serious about growing our business, we need to focus our effort on
the Loyal customers, and merchandise our store to leverage the Impulse shoppers.
The other three types of customers do represent a segment of our business, but
they can also cause us to misdirect our resources if we put too much emphasis on
them.
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with them. Loyal Customers: Naturally, we need to be communicating with these
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Discount Customers: This category helps ensure your inventory is turning over
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Impulse Customers: Clearly, this is the segment of our clientele that we all
like to serve. There is nothing more exciting than assisting an Impulse shopper
and having them respond favorably to our recommendations. We want to target our
displays towards this group because they will provide us with a significant
amount of customer insight and knowledge.
NeedBased Customers: People in this category are driven by a specific need.
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they can often represent your greatest source of longterm growth. It is
important to remember that NeedBased customers can easily be lost to Internet
sales or a different retailer. To overcome this threat, positive personal
interaction is required, usually from one of your top salespeople. If they are
treated to a level of service not available from the web or another retail
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this reason, NeedBased customers offer the greatest longterm potential,
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