Acquisition and retention · Empirical analysis of loyalty-program membership and purchase behavior using customer transaction data.
The Effects of Loyalty Program Membership on Customer Purchase Behavior
Lars Meyer-Waarden (2007). The Effects of Loyalty Program Membership on Customer Purchase Behavior. Journal of Consumer Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1108/07363760610712939.
Plain-English take
Membership is associated with differences in purchase behavior, providing evidence for evaluating loyalty-program retention/value claims. For your marketing: Use to frame a lifecycle hypothesis and define customer-level outcomes; check whether the study's market and retention horizon resemble yours.
How much weight to give this
2.5/5 Evidence needs cautious interpretation
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Empirical analysis of loyalty-program membership and purchase behavior using customer transaction data.
Retail loyalty-program members and nonmembers in a customer database.
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Research question
What the authors investigated
Does loyalty-program membership change customer purchase behavior in a retail setting?
Design
Empirical analysis of loyalty-program membership and purchase behavior using customer transaction data.
Sample and setting
Retail loyalty-program members and nonmembers in a customer database.
Reported result
What the study found
Membership is associated with differences in purchase behavior, providing evidence for evaluating loyalty-program retention/value claims.
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Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Membership is not randomly assigned, so self-selection and database/retail-context limits remain; the publisher abstract does not establish SaaS generalizability.
Possible founder application
Use to frame a lifecycle hypothesis and define customer-level outcomes; check whether the study's market and retention horizon resemble yours.
Evidence access
Publisher record and abstract retrieved; consult the linked paper for full methods and tables.
Emerald DOI/title record identifies the empirical loyalty-program membership study and customer purchase-behavior outcome. Direct publisher-page retrieval was recorded on 2026-10-09; this profile uses the publisher abstract/metadata and does not claim independent review of unavailable full text.
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