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Kurt Jetta, CEO of the Tabs Group, an analytics firm that recently completed its seventh annual study of the vitamin business, sees an "overall lethargy" in the business this year that he attributes to the negative effects from the studies. Mr. Jetta still projects overall growth of 3% to 4% for 2014 in a business he pegs at $11.4 billion in all channels, although he is leaning more toward low end of that range, well below high-single or even double-digit growth rates in years past. The effect is most noticeable on the segment targeted by the study -- multivitamins -- he said. That's in line with prior studies in the past decade that put the kibosh on beta-carotene and vitamin E, yet seems to be having a broader effect than the decline of those businesses had. "Typically the negativity is isolated only on the one product," Mr. Jetta said. "But this one seems to be a bit broader and brought an overall malaise to the category."
{{cite book}}: |last8= has generic name (help)Kurt Jetta, CEO of the TABS consumer metrics company, believes that Sears' emphasis on its "Shop Your Way" loyalty program—which accounted for 74 percent of sales during the fiscal first quarter, up from 68 percent a year earlier—is only "doubling down on a fatally flawed program."
{{cite news}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The most important thing that data is used for is to determine which products consumers prefer, and to make sure what's on the shelf is what they want to buy," explains Kurt Jetta, CEO of TABS Group, a consumer analytics company in Shelton, Conn. "For example, we're doing one project for a retail chain where we found that in areas with high African-American populations, not only do they buy African-American hair care products and cosmetics specifically, but they buy grooming products in general at a very high level. With that kind of information, the retailer can make sure all those products are stocked and available for them.
Kurt Jetta, the CEO and founder of consumer analytics company TABS Group, told Macworld that when stores add customer-driven point of sale (POS) options like EasyPay, "in general, what happens is that there's a fairly significant surge in sales" at first, due to the novelty of the new system. That's then followed by some "shakeout of people that don't like it for a lot of reasons—user difficulty, user error, and the like." In the end, Jetta says, sales numbers balance out. Echoing Ciabarra, Jetta pointed out that such systems reduce cost to the retailer, and stores usually see "a significant customer satisfaction uptick" from customers who place value on self-checkout, particularly in terms of customer loyalty. Like Ciabarra, Jetta says he is "suspicious" of Shine's story. "The assumption," Jetta said, is that if a customer tries to leave the store with unpurchased items, "is operator error or oversight … Apple wouldn't want to make it the norm that they're harassing and jacking up all the people going to the stores. That doesn't help anybody."
Apple's EasyPay service promises Apple Store shoppers a fast way to conduct business at the company's retail outlets, letting them buy items without even talking to a store employee. It's fast and convenient—but one New Jersey teenager claims he got more than he bargained for, after he was accused of trying to walk out of the Apple Store on New York's Fifth Avenue without paying for a pair of headphones. Eighteen-year-old Eric Shine insists that he did try to pay, using the mobile Apple Store app's EasyPay option on his phone, but that the purchase didn't go through. A New York court will hear his case in October.
Consumer-products manufacturers and retailers have found that when you run seasonal promotions early, "it will sell earlier and you get that incremental hit as well," said Kurt Jetta, chief executive and founder of TABS Group, a sales and marketing analytics firm based in Connecticut.
For the third straight year, the percentage of US consumers purchasing Organic products has held steady in the 38-39% range, reports Shelton, CT-based marketing research and consulting company, TABS Group, Inc.
Kurt Jetta is president of the TABS Group, a Connecticut consumer research firm. His recent research shows that the percentage of shoppers who bought natural or organic items has remained steady, in the 38 to 39 percent range for the past three years.
During the last four years, Jetta has been conducting national surveys of 1,000 consumers, ages 18 to 75, using a different group each year, to find out their buying habits when it comes to organic products.
Kurt Jetta, founder and chief executive officer of TABS Group Inc. in Shelton, Conn., a company that provides analytics, software and strategic consulting to companies involved in consumer products, began studying consumer attitudes on organic products years ago when retailers came to him asking whether or not they should carry organic products. Their concern came from the fact that some stores jumped on the organic bandwagon a little too soon, Jetta explained, pumping up their inventory with organic products, setting up special displays and then regretting their decisions. "Wal-Mart got into (organics) in a big way and got hurt in a few areas," he said.
The percentage of people who buy organic products has stayed virtually the same for the past few years, according to a new survey out Wednesday from TABS Group. Kurt Jetta, president of TABS Group, said in an e-mail that his research also hasn't shown evidence that people who buy organic are buying significantly more products.
Now Family Dollar stands to benefit from Dollar Tree's management expertise while maintaining and bolstering its brand, and other discounters like Dollar General and even Walmart could see sales falter. "If Dollar Tree can bring their magic over to Family Dollar, it's going to have a pretty significant impact on this overall sector," says Kurt Jetta, CEO of TABS Group, a consumer analytics firm.