Chapter 1-9 Key Term Crossword: FMD258
Across
- 2. Competing by offering unique value, features, or brand identity.
- 3. An operational practice where a retailer offers product lines that are completely unrelated to its traditional, core business model to increase foot traffic.
- 6. A strategic global entry method where a domestic retailer partners with a local foreign company to share ownership, financial risk, and market expertise.
- 7. Grouping stores with similar traits to tailor assortment and pricing.
- 9. Retailers or members pooling buying power and services through shared ownership.
- 10. A formal written declaration that outlines a retail corporation's core purpose, values, target audience, and primary strategic direction.
- 11. Objective, measurable statistics of a population segment, such as age, gender, household income, education level, and geographic location.
- 13. The core geographic area closest to a store that accounts for the highest density of its regular customers, typically generating 70% of total traffic.
- 16. A massive specialty discount superstore that carries a vast, low-priced selection of a single product category, dominating local competition.
- 18. The percentage of digital storefront visitors who successfully complete a purchase out of the total number of unique visitors.
- 21. Gross margin return on inventory investment, a profitability measure per inventory dollar.
- 22. Consumer segmentation data based on psychological variables, including personal attitudes, cultural values, interests, and lifestyle behaviors.
- 23. The emotional, experiential, and sensory rewards a customer seeks during the shopping process, such as entertainment or social status.
- 24. A distinct, long-term performance benefit over competitors that cannot be easily copied or duplicated by rival retail firms.
Down
- 1. A licensed business format where franchisees operate under a brand’s system.
- 4. A marketing mechanism (like infomercials or catalogs) that provides a specific, immediate call to action for the consumer to purchase via phone, web, or mail.
- 5. A type of predatory pricing strategy in international trade. It occurs when companies export a product to another country at a price either below the price charged in their home market or below its cost of production.
- 7. The number of distinct items displayed per page or layout area.
- 8. A measure of shoppers’ optimism about finances and the economy
- 12. An estimate of total value of all the final products and services produced in a given period by the means of production owned by a country's residents.
- 14. A method for analyzing trade areas by comparing similar stores and their customer demographics.
- 15. A storefront concentrating on a selective, narrow product category with a highly deep and customized merchandise assortment.
- 17. The geographic zone or surrounding community from which a specific retail storefront draws the majority of its customer base.
- 19. A large-scale retail institution carrying a wide variety and deep assortment of product lines organized into separate, specialized operating sections.
- 20. A center that combines elements from two or more of the main shopping center types.