Final Customer Purchasing from an Intermediary of the Product

Acquire Steps: Acquire steps include all activities the customer completes preceding the purchase of the product. These steps include the customer's efforts needed to identify and evaluate Intermediaries and travel to the Intermediary location.

2. Emotional: Segment customers according to the personal emotional needs of the segment.

B. Needs to avoid sources of anxiety

2. Limitations set by time: Segment customers according to the causes of the limitations set by time.

Delays related to location: Identify characteristics related to the location of purchase or use that separate one group of customers from others
Distance from the company, from the product, from competition or from some other preferred location.
Distance from company or product
Customers moving from one place to another

Within a mile of product or service

No. SIC Year Note
1 5122 1986 With an emphasis on convenience, Walgreen's draws most of its customers from a half-mile radius. Thus, it can position stores as little as two blocks apart in urban areas like Chicago and still turn a profit.

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