Chapter 11
Customer Relationship Management
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Retailing Management, 6/e
Copyright © 2007 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Retailing Strategy
Retail Market Strategy
Financial Strategy
Site Location
Customer Relationship
Management
Retail Locations
Organizational Structure and
HR Management
Information Systems
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Customer Relationship Management
• A business philosophy and set of strategies,
programs, and systems that focus on identifying
and building loyalty with a retailer’s most
valuable customers.
• What is loyalty? Is it the same thing as liking a
retailer or frequently patronizing a retailer?
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Customer Loyalty
• Committed to purchasing merchandise
and services from a retailer
• Resist efforts of competitors to attract the
loyal customer
• Emotional attachment to retailer
– Personal attention
– Memorable positive experiences
– Brand building communications programs
Can Offering Discounts Achieve
Customer Loyalty?
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No!
Retail strategies like these can
be copied by competitors
These strategies encourage
customers to be always
looking for the best deal
rather than developing a
relationship with a retailer
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CRM Process
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Information About Each Customer in the Database
• History of purchases
• Purchase date, price paid, SKUs bought, whether or not
the purchase was stimulated by a promotion
• Customer contacts by retailer (touch points) --visits to
web site, inquires to call center, direct mail sent to
customer
• Customer preferences
• Descriptive information about customer
• Customer’s responses to marketing activities
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Approaches for Collecting
Customer Information
• Need to connection contacts with a specific
customer identifier
• Ask for identifying information
– Telephone number, name and address
• Encourage use of frequent shopper cards
• Link checking account number and/or third
party credit cards to customer
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Privacy Concerns
• Control over Collection
• Do customers know what
information is being collected?
• Do customers feel they can
decide on the amount and type of
information collected by retailers?
• Control over Use
• Do customers know how the
information will be used by the
retailer?
• Will the retailer share the
information with third parties?
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Frequent Shopper Cards
Card is often squeezed out of wallet
Customers forget to bring it to the store
Might not even show it if in a hurry
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Heighten Concerns When Using
Electronic Channel
Information collected without
the awareness of customers
Collecting click stream data
using cookies
Similar to an invisible person
videotaping a customer as they
walk through a store
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Customer’s Decision to
Offer Information
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Disclosure of Information
Unwanted Sales Contacts
Discounts
Special Treatment
Personal Attention
Balance benefits and risks
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Consumer Protection Differences
• United States
• Limited protection in
specific areas
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Credit reporting
Video rentals
Banking
Medical records
European Union
• Information only can only
be collected for specific
purposes
• Purpose must be
disclosed to customer
• Information can only be
used for specific purpose
• Information can not be
exported to countries
with less stringent
regulations
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FTC Guideline for Fair Information Practices
Notice and awareness
– comprehensive statement about information storage,
manipulation, and dissemination
Choice/consent
– Opt-in and opt-out options
Access/participation
– Customer able to confirm accuracy
Integrity/security
– Controls for theft and tampering
Enforcement/redress
– Mechanism to insure compliance
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J.Crew Security and Privacy Policy
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Analyzing Customer Data
Data Mining – technique used
to identify patterns in data.
Market Basket Analysis
Identifying Market Segments
Identifying Best Customers
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Market Basket Analysis
Data analysis focusing on
the composition of the
customer’s market basket
– what items are bought
during a single shopping
occasion
Uses:
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-Adjacencies for displaying merchandise
-Joint promotions
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Market Basket Analysis Taught Wal-Mart to Change!
Product
Bananas
Kleenex
Measuring spoons
Flashlights
Little Debbie snack cakes
Bug spray
Placed Near
cornflakes, produce
paper goods, cold medicine
housewares, Crisco shortening
hardware, Halloween costumes
coffee
hunting gear
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Identifying Best Customers
• Estimating Lifetime Value
• Based on assumptions that the
customer’s future purchase behaviors
will be the same as they have been in
the past
• Classifying Customers by recency,
frequency, and monetary value of
purchases (RFM Analysis)
(c) Brand X Pictures/PunchStock
Which Customer Probably Has the
Greatest Lifetime Value
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Purchases Over Last 10 Weeks
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Jack $20 $20 $20 $20 $20 $20 $20 $20 $20 $20
Jill $210 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
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Customer Pyramid
Platinum
Best
Most loyal
Least price sensitive
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Customer Pyramid
Gold
Next best
Not as loyal
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Customer Pyramid
Iron
Doesn’t deserve
much attention
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Customer Pyramid
Lead
Demands attention
May have
negative value
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RFM Analysis
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RFM Target Strategies
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Illustration of RFM Application
• A catalog retailer is deciding which group of
customers to send a catalog.. Based on
experience and an RFM analysis of
customer database:
• Average order size for customers in cell $40
• Contribution margin – 50%
• Response rate – 5%
• Cost of catalog and mailing -$.75
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Illustration of RFM Application
• A catalog retailer is deciding which group of customers
to send a catalog.. Based on experience and an RFM
analysis of customer database:
• Average order size for customers in cell - $40
• Contribution margin – 50%
• Response rate – 5%
• Cost of catalog and mailing -$.75
Will the retailer make a profit mailing to this RFM
segment?
$20.00 contribution x .05 response rate - $.75 cost
= $.25 profit per catalog mailed
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CRM Programs
Retailing Best Customers
Converting Good
Customers to Best
Customers
Getting Rid of
Unprofitable
Customers
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Customer Retention Programs
• Frequent Shopper Programs
• Special Customer Services
• Personalization
1-to1 Retailing
• Community
Royalty-Free/CORBIS
Elements in Effective
Frequent Shopper Programs
• Tier Based on Customer Value
• Offer Choices of Rewards
– Non-monetary incentives
• Reward all Transactions
• Transparent and Simple
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Issues with Effective
Frequent Shopper Programs
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Expense
Difficulty in Making Changes
Impact on Loyalty Questionable
Easily Duplicated – Difficult to Gain
Competitive Advantage
– Need to offer “invisible” benefits
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Personalization
Hello, Barton Weitz
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Dealing with Unprofitable Customers
Offer less approaches
for dealing with these
customers
Charge customers for
extra services
demanded
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Implementing CRM Programs
Need systems, databases
Close coordination between departments –
marketing, MIS, store operations, HR
Shift in orientation
Product Centric
Customer Centric