Do we have Tesco loyalty?

The aims of the book are to evaluate the antecedents which influence loyalty to Tesco & Tesco Clubcard, contending that customer loyalty is influenced by factors of both a social and marketing nature. Using quantitative & qualitative research the book concluded that: customer loyalty towards Tesco & Tesco Clubcard was not social' in nature, it was premised on the antecedents of happiness/satisfaction, trust & commitment with grocery shopping viewed as a practical activity; the characteristics of a Tesco customer most likely to be loyal was someone who drove past other supermarkets to patronise a Tesco store, had a family member employed or previously employed by Tesco, preferred Tesco as a grocery retailer & would not switch their current loyalty from Tesco, aged between 58 and 63; Tesco customers exhibited spurious loyalty to Tesco and Tesco Clubcard, loyal because of convenience & incentives. By convenience we mean in terms of store location, accessibility & the lack of effort required from respondents to access offers. This underlines the peculiarities of Tesco as a grocery retailer in Dundee & its dominant position in the market.

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Jason. J. Turner is a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Abertay, Dundee. Building on his PhD he has researched the area of loyalty programmes and the customer/client interface using qualitative and quantitative methods for 10 years and has published in national and International journals.