Sav-More Supermarkets Observers of the Supermarket Industry See No Letup in the in the Use

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Sav-More Supermarkets
Observers of the supermarket industry see no letup in the use of checkout-counter-based target marketing.Sav-More supermarkets have installed an electronic marketing system in their stores.The system allows the stores to do more direct mail promotions by combining the current Sav-More's check cashing cards with the new Sav-More's Bonus Club frequent-shopper cards.The new system uses bar-code scanners and magnetic cards issued to shoppers to track all purchases.As with most customer databases,demographic information is gathered for subsequent offers to frequent-shopper club members,and psychographic information is tracked whenever customers use the magnetic strip cards to make purchases.Generally,marketing to these consumers achieves better results than free- standing insert (FSI) coupons.
-Refer to Sav-More Supermarkets.Edisto decided the best way to determine what is causing the drop in orange juice sales was to conduct a survey among shoppers in the frozen food section of Sav-More.The data Edisto collected are called _____ data.

• A) single-source
• B) secondary
• C) representational
• D) primary
• E) dichotomous

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