I shop at Whole Foods
Not all the time, but enough to be embarrassed by it. Have to stop making fun of bourgeois-y people since I have become one of them. Look what I saw in the check-out aisle at Whole Foods. Not People magazine. Not Oprah magazine. Nope.
Impulse reading = Harvard Business Review?
Apparently, Whole Foods customers are the type of people who would pick up HBR and flip through it while waiting for their purchase. Classic. Yes, this must be where management consultants shop.
For the non-marketing types, this might be a good visual to remember. There is a lot more than simple geographic and demographic segmentation. Don’t forget the other factors that influence how and why people shop at Whole foods: values, attitudes, interests, activities, purchase frequency, behaviors etc. . .
Whole Foods knows it customer segments
Without doing rigorous segmentation that Nielsenmight do, I simply goggled the words “Whole Foods Customer Segmentation” and look what I found. . . Whole Foods 2021 10K explaining their 4 customer segments:
Unlike shoppers at conventional grocery stores, we believe many of our customers connect with us on a deeper level because of our shared values and, for this reason, continue to shop with us even in uncertain economic times. Based on our research, we believe our customers can be segmented into four broad categories:
- Conscionables embody the Core Values of Whole Foods Market; they support social and environmental initiatives and are frequent shoppers who spend the largest proportion of their monthly grocery bill with us.
- Organics buy organically grown food as a way to maintain their personal health and for food safety reasons.
- Foodies equate food with love and are frequent shoppers who shop our stores for selection, value and convenience, and
- Experientials are driven to Whole Foods Market for unique products and special occasion items.
Do you shop at Whole Foods?
Which segment do you belong to? My wife is an Organic and I am a Foodie.