Method and System for Providing Benefits to Retail Consumers
A retail store develops a marketing incentive program and distributes different types of benefits to consumers in the program. One benefit the retail store can distribute is a recurring cash value benefit to the consumer.
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62 . A method of determining the effectiveness of a marketing incentive, the method comprising:
selecting a plurality of consumers;
selecting a first subset of the plurality of consumers and providing an incentive in the form of a recurring cash value benefit to the consumers in the first subset;
selecting a second subset of the plurality of consumers and providing to the consumers in the second subset an incentive different than the recurring cash value benefit; and
analyzing, after a predetermined amount of time, a behavior of the consumers in the first and second subsets to determine which incentive is effective.