Shopping hard or hardly shopping: Revealing consumer segments using clickstream data
| Autor: | Johannes De Smedt, Melina Zavali, Ewelina Lacka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Supply chain management
industries business.industry Strategy and Management consumer segmentation Big data Advertising Business operations Clothing apparel retailing Medoid machine learning market research big data tools Revenue Business Electrical and Electronic Engineering business navigation Marketing research online purchase clickstream data Clickstream |
| Zdroj: | Zavali, M, Lacka, E & De Smedt, J 2021, ' Shopping hard or hardly shopping : Revealing consumer segments using clickstream data ', IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management . https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2021.3070069 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TEM.2021.3070069 |
| Popis: | The recent rise of big data analytics is transforming the apparel retailing industry. E-retailers, for example, effectively use large volumes of data generated as a result of their day-to-day business operations data to aid operations and supply chain management. Although logs of how consumers navigate through an e-commerce website are readily available in a form of clickstream data, clickstream analysis is rarely used to derive insights that can support marketing decisions, leaving it an under-researched area of study. Adding to this research stream by exploring the case of a U.K.-based fast-fashion retailer, this article reveals unique consumer segments and links them to the revenue they are capable of generating. Applying the partitioning around medoids algorithm to three random samples of 10 000 unique consumer visits to the e-commerce site of a fast-fashion retailer, six consumer segments are identified. This article shows that although the “mobile window shoppers” segment consists of the largest consumer segment, it attracts the lowest revenue. In contrast, “visitors with a purpose,” although one of the smallest segments, generates the highest revenue. The findings of this article contribute to marketing research and inform practice, which can use these insights to target customer segments in a more tailored fashion. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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