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Customer Segmentation in Food Retail Sector: An Approach from Customer Behavior and Product Association Rules

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Abstract

In competitive markets, customer segmentation improves customer loyalty and business performance, but in practice, these analyses are carried out using simple relationships in dashboard, or Microsoft Excel’ sheets, which do not show customer behavior. Data segmentation in the era of big data has changed this paradigm with some techniques that try to decrease bias. In this research, four segmentation techniques are tested with a large set of data from a retail store. CLARA (Clustering Large Applications Algorithm) and Random Forest algorithms both were the best. Through the RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) approach, eight customer segments were found, where Champions customers spend more money and return frequently to the retail store. In addition, each segment of customer buys following a model, this was demonstrated with the a priori algorithm. Finally, some strategies are given into which products should go together and how to distribute them so that customers can find them, as well as the best-selling products.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Technologies - 4th International Conference, ICAT 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMiguel Botto-Tobar, Marcelo Zambrano Vizuete, Sergio Montes León, Pablo Torres-Carrión, Benjamin Durakovic
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages240-254
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031249846
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event4th International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2022 - Quito, Ecuador
Duration: 23 Nov 202225 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1755 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2022
Country/TerritoryEcuador
CityQuito
Period23/11/2225/11/22

Keywords

  • A priori
  • Clustering algorithm
  • Data mining
  • Random forest
  • Retail

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