How would Pet Smart segment its market? Please explain
how that entity segments its market.
Market Segmentation is the process of dividing the total target
market into groups of customers who have common needs and wants and
designing strategies to target those customers and to implement
those strategies.
- Geographic : Market segmentation based on
geographic factors considers that in any country, any region or any
climate there will be people who have pets. Thus the company finds
a market place in every countries.
- Demographic : While considering demographic
factors, PetSmart considers that the people keeps pets irrespective
of age, gender, family, occupation, income, education, race
etc
- Psychographic : This factor considers
lifestyle, society, personal characteristics etc to segment the
market. For any factors there will be pets.
- Behavioural : Behavioural factors considers
the behaviour of the customers towards the products. Such factors
are attitude of customers, knowledge of customers, responses
towards the product etc. PetSmart includes all the people who love
the pets under this category.