Corporate fashions Inc: Case Study on Sampling, Business Research Methods
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Corporate Fashions, Inc. (A)
Section A Group 6
Abhay Sharma 1A
Aniruddh Srivastava 9A
Devansh Doshi 16AManasi Jain 23A
Sachin Gupta 38A
Vidooshi Joshi 55A
Case Summary (1/3) Corporate Fashions, Inc., was a national franchiser of
specialty retail shops that sell wear-to-the-office clothing to career-oriented, professional working women. The company was looking into the possibility of opening a store in the Forest View Shopping Center in a suburb of Chicago.
It located its stores in those major metropolitan areas which were believed to contain the highest number of professional career women. The stores were typically places in large shopping centers surrounded by the residential areas in which the targeted women were believed to reside. Only large shopping centers with a number of stores of the type that attracted professional career women were considered candidate sites for a Corporate Fashions store.
The Forest View Shopping Center was being considered as a possible site for a Corporate Fashions store because of the number and quality of stores in the center.
Case Summary (2/3) Figures provided by the shopping center manager
indicated that the shopping center’s traffic and sales volume more than likely could support a Corporate Fashions store. The main concern among Corporate Fashions management was whether an adequate proportion of the woemn shoppers at Forest View were the type of professional career women that Corporate Fashions was trying to attract to its stores.
Because the shopping center was unable to provide detailed information about the professional career woemn shoppers, Corporate Fashions management decided to undertake a survey to obtain the desired information. Corporate Fashions managers felt that one of their stores would be successful in the Forst View Shopping Center if at least 10% of the shopping center’s female shoppers were members of their target market.
Case Summary (3/3) Characteristics of female shoppers of the target
market of Corporate Fashions:◦ Employed full-time◦ 25-45 years of age◦ Earns $30,000 or more annually◦ Regularly shops at Forest View◦ Buys clothing of the type sold by Corporate Fashions◦ Spends at least $600 per year on such clothing◦ Spends at least $200 per year in specialty stores◦ Buys from specialty stores that are not price-oriented
Corporate Fashions managers wanted an accurate estimate of the proportion of Forest View’s female shoppers who were professional career women.
Research showed that approximately 96% of all Forest View female shoppers resided in 15 communities (E.g. Elmhurst, Hinsdale, Villa Park, Western Springs and others)
Management Decision Problem
Corporate Fashions, Inc. wants to know if they should open a store in the Forest View Shopping Center, suburb of Chicago.
Research ProblemTo determine if there are
adequate women shoppers at Forest View that fall in the Target Group of the company
Sampling Design A (1/3)Obtain the telephone directories of all of
the 15 communities within the Forest View market area
Select a probability sample of names and telephone numbers from each community
These names and numbers could be used to undertake a telephone survey designed to identify women who shopped at Forest View and whether or not they were also professional career women.
Sampling Design A (2/3)Degree of targeting achieved:
Only geographic Sampling Framework: Telephone
directories of all of the 15 communities within the Forest View market area
Sampling method: Probabilistic, Simple Random
Sampling Design A (3/3)
Advantages Disadvantages
Poor targeting
Samples not proportionate
Tendency to give shorter responses
Easier collection of socially undesirable responses
Speed, and easier follow-up
Sampling Design B (1/3)Use a map to identify the ZIP code areas
comprising the 15 communities in Forest View’s market area
Corporate Fashions could then go to one of the large commercial research service companies, such as Donnelley, and purchase a random sample of names, addresses, and telephone numbers selected from all of the households in the identified ZIP code areas
This random list could be used in the design of an in-home personal interview study, a telephone survey, or even a mail survey
Sampling Design B(2/3)Degree of targeting achieved:
Only geographic Sampling Framework: random
sample of names, addresses, and telephone numbers selected from all of the households in the identified ZIP code areas
Sampling method: Probabilistic, Simple Random
Sampling Design B (3/3)
Advantages
Disadvantages
Poor targeting
Samples not proportionate
Tendency to give shorter responses
Higher cost compared with previous sampling method
Easier collection of socially undesirable responses
Speed, and easier follow-up
Sampling Design C (1/3)Use 1980 Census of Housing data
covering the census tracts comprising Forest View’s market area
Using area sampling methods, an in-home personal interview study could be designed by randomly selecting a certain number of blocks in each community, then randomly selecting certain dwelling units in each of the selected blocks
Sampling Design C (2/3)Degree of targeting achieved:
Only geographic Age, income, and gender can be inferred
Sampling Framework: 1980 Census of Housing data covering the census tracts comprising Forest View’s market area
Sampling method: Probabilistic, Cluster Sampling
Sampling Design C (3/3)
Advantages
Disadvantages
Proportionate
samples of all
target population
Speed, and easier
follow-up
Enhanced targeting
External factors
may affect the
process
Higher cost
compared with
telephonic interviews
Sampling Design D (1/3)Randomly select females who
were shopping in the Forest View Shopping Center
Female Shoppers could be selected at random locations at random times of the day, even on randomly selected days of the week
Such shoppers could be personally interviewed on the spot to obtain the desired information.
Sampling Design D (2/3)Degree of targeting achieved:
Geographic and ageShopping behavior, the kinds of shops from where purchase happens can be inferred
Sampling Framework: Mall intercept survey
Sampling method: Non-Probabilistic, Judgmental Sampling
Sampling Design D (3/3)
Advantages
Disadvantages
All advantage of
personal interviews
Interviewing
environment is
controlled by the
researcher
Enhanced level
of targeting
Higher cost
compared with
telephonic interviews
The respondents
might be in a hurry
to leave the mall
Other approaches Web or mail surveyGetting a level of geographic targeting would be very difficult
We Recommend
Mall intercept survey
Additions:Remove randomness in the selection
of days, location, and timeSelect locations and time of day
when maximum of the target population would be available
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