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Research: Back-to-College Shopping – Update

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: August 20, 2009
2 Comments | This entry was posted in Marketing, Merchandising

Following up on the Back-to-School shopping update posted recently, this blog post explores how college students are progressing in the annual back to college shopping ritual. Earlier this week, the National Retail Federation released findings from its latest survey with BIGresearch on consumers’ progress when it comes to back-to-school and back-to-college shopping. (Please see also our initial data for Back to College, posted in July.)

As always, Shop.org members can download the complete results of how online shoppers vary from shoppers who will only make back-to-school purchases in stores.

BTC shopping to date. One fifth of all back-to-college shoppers have finished their shopping so far, though the average BTC shopper had completed less than half of their shopping. Of all BTC shoppers, fully 42% hadn’t started at all (vs. 32% for online BTC shoppers specifically). As with Back to School shoppers, retailers will find many consumers as yet very receptive to BTC shopping messages.

Where they’re shopping. At this point, one quarter of back-to-college shoppers anticipate completing this task online. Somewhat less so than for back to school shoppers, not quite half of BTC online shoppers will also visit discount stores, while approximately a third will shop in department stores and clothing stores. One quarter of online BTC shoppers will also head to electronics stores.

Influence of coupons, sales and promotions. 41% of BTC shoppers indicate that coupons, sales, and/or promotions have influenced those BTC purchases that they have already made. General BTC shoppers cited coupons (39%), advertising inserts (31%), word of mouth (31%) and in-store promotions (23.7%) as media that influence them to shop in a particular store. Among online BTC shoppers, those influences are even higher: for example, coupons were cited by almost half as influencing their choice of retailer, and TV/broadcast appears to be a somewhat more influential medium than for BTC shoppers in general.

Favorite Web sites. Finally, back to college shoppers were asked to write in the name of their favorite back-to-college retail Web site. While there were numerous mentions, Wal-Mart and Target led the pack (much as for back-to-school shoppers), followed by Amazon.com, Staples, and JCPenney, among others. Did having a favorite BTC Web site influence actual purchases? For just over a third (whether all or online specifically), there was no particular impact as they already “regularly” shopped at that Web site. For online BTC shoppers, however, over a quarter said that favorite Web site did motivate them to shop there – almost twice as many as for all BTC shoppers.

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  1. Russell Ackner
    Posted August 24, 2009 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    I was pleasantly surprised by the interest and average order value this season. College student still opt for style and value but if they can’t find it at the aforementioned favorites, they hunt those products down. No doubt with each passing year the students and parents are more tech-savvy and relying on the web and ecommerce to deliver direct to dorm.

  2. Rob.
    Posted November 18, 2010 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    Yes there is in an increase in online shopping in all areas and online coupons are a big selling point. Every source of statistics shows dramatic uptrends in online commerce.

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