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Customers not feeling “a little love back from Starbucks”

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CMO Council, a research group stated consumers have been backing away from reward cards because of the “barrage of irrelevant messages, low value rewards and impersonal engagements.” We’re in the age of instant gratification, and we all want to say we got something for nothing – but is anything ever free?

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Small Business Saturday – a boon for local retail stores

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Retail reward programs no guarantee of customer loyalty Most retail organizations use discounts to entice customers to buy. ‘Tis the season to rev up the customer service Statistics for the 2011 shopping holiday season look a little.

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The Implications of Big-data Marketing: Bigger Than You Think

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Sources: Kosinski et al 2013, Chittaranjan et al 2011, Epp at al 2011. With the institution of loyalty reward programs, the collection of purchase/transaction data took off. Analyzing Facebook likes, phone data, and typing patterns. For details see Christl and Spiekermann 2016 (p.

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‘Tis the season to rev up the customer service

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Statistics for the 2011 shopping holiday season look a little scary for merchants this year. Retail reward programs no guarantee of customer loyalty Most retail organizations use discounts to entice customers to buy. Luckily 49 percent say they are going to spend the same amount. Only 7 percent say they are going to spend more.

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What Brookes is doing isn’t new, but he seems to be taking a more methodical approach and expects a five to ten percent growth for 2011 notwithstanding of course interest rates, unemployment, and the value of the Aussie dollar. Also, customers complained most items were more expensive than other competing stores.

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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

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Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.