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.

Delay related to purchase and installation: Segment customers according to delays before the customer receives or can use the product
Segments where delays are due to steps a customer must take. Segment must:

Find, choose and pay for product

No.	SIC	Year	Note
1	5331	2001	BJ's Wholesale Club Inc., the smallest of the three major warehouse club players, has carved a distinctive reputation in the industry. While nearly 60% of Costco's customers are small business, BJ's targets consumers.
2	5331	2003	The CEO of 99 cent only stores has an unconventional rule about retail: Location doesn't matter: The stores don't need any specific environment to work- having done well both on the border of Beverly Hills and in dodgy strip malls.
3	5621	2001	The little-known but fast-growing retailer cultivates women of a certain age, avoirdupois and asset level with stylish private-label clothing that comes in just a few nonjudgmental sizes: zero, one and three.
4	7514	2003	National Car Rental is rolling out two programs that allow more renters to avoid stopping at the counter, in an attempt to make its service more attractive to business travelers. National Car said its "Quick Rent" service lets customer who book online go directly to a lot and select a car from the class they reserved. The customer initially signs a paper form and the company keeps the signature on file for online rentals.
5	7841	2003	Netflix subscribers pay $19.95 a month to rent as many DVDs as they want, with three movies out at a time. There are no due dates or late fees. Netflix has a library of more than 13,500 titles – far more than can be found at a neighborhood video store.

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