Supermarkets Approaching 10 Million Flybuys Or Everyday Rewards Cardholders
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Article No. 5277 Available on www.roymorgan.com Link to Roy Morgan Profiles Monday, 4 November 2013 Big data gets bigger: Supermarkets approaching 10 million FlyBuys or Everyday Rewards cardholders “Sure, you can have some of my personal information—but what do I get in return?” Half of Australians (14+) now have a FlyBuys or Everyday Rewards card, the latest research from Roy Morgan shows. E Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths now have at least 9.5 million Australian consumers (and potentially their contact information, visitation patterns, spending habits and product preferences) on file between them. Despite relaunching and receiving a big jump in the past year, Coles’ FlyBuys still trails its rival, with 33% of total consumers compared with 36% who have an Everyday Rewards card with Woolworths. After just three years in the field, in 2010 Everyday Rewards overtook teenaged FlyBuys as the most widely held loyalty card. FlyBuys remained on a popularity plateau until April 2012 when Coles increased the points-per-dollar and trialled the ‘my5’ promotion which—although criticised for its complexity—clearly helped stimulate recruitment: from June 2012 to June 2013, the proportion of Australians with FlyBuys jumped from just over 1 in 4 (26%) to 1 in 3 (33%). However Everyday Rewards has maintained the lead with a smaller, but still significant, rise from 32% to 36% over the period. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASFOR IMMEDIATE Roy Morgan Research Ltd.A.B.N. 91 007 092 944 Quality System Certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001 401 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 – GPO Box 2282U, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia Tel: (03) 9629 6888 Fax: (03) 9629 1250 (03) 9224 5387 [email protected] Warren Reid, Group Account Manager – Consumer Products, Roy Morgan Research, says: “Although FlyBuys made some significant changes to their loyalty program in 2012 and was rewarded with a sharp increase in cardholder numbers, Everyday Rewards remains the more common scheme among consumers. “Flybuys and Everyday Rewards provide the supermarkets with important information about purchase behaviour. Clearly, most consumers are happy to make this trade, providing personal data in exchange for tangible benefits via a convenient and easy to manage process. “However these loyalty cards can only provide information when scanned, and even then E only about in-store consumer activity. So-called ‘big data’ really needs to be anchored to deeper, broader consumer profiling and market segmentation to be of any real value. “Roy Morgan’s new psychographic classification system Helix Personas does this. When anchored to Helix, the information provided during membership registration instantly defines each consumer’s Persona—and therefore his or her likelihood of product preferences, household size, attitudes to in-store and online shopping and media habits. “People in the Today’s Families community of young families in outer suburbs are the most likely to have a FlyBuys card. These Aussies are on relatively high incomes, but acutely feel the stresses of mortgages, childrearing costs and everyday household expenses.” For comments or more information please contact: Warren Reid, Group Account Manager — Consumer Products Office: +61 (3) 9224 5161 Email: [email protected] About Roy Morgan Research Roy Morgan Research is the largest independent Australian research company, with offices in each state of Australia, as well as in New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. A full FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS service research organisation specialising in omnibus and syndicated data, Roy Morgan Research has over 70 years’ experience in collecting objective, independent information on consumers. In Australia, Roy Morgan Research is considered to be the authoritative source of information on financial behaviour, readership, voting intentions and consumer confidence. 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Sample Size Percentage Estimate 40%-60% 25% or 75% 10% or 90% 5% or 95% Roy Morgan Research Ltd.A.B.N. 91 007 092 944 Quality System Certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001 401 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 – GPO Box 2282U, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia Tel: (03) 9629 6888 Fax: (03) 9629 1250 (03) 9224 5387 [email protected] 5,000 ±1.4 ±1.2 ±0.8 ±0.6 7,500 ±1.1 ±1.0 ±0.7 ±0.5 10,000 ±1.0 ±0.9 ±0.6 ±0.4 20,000 ±0.7 ±0.6 ±0.4 ±0.3 E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS Roy Morgan Research Ltd.A.B.N. 91 007 092 944 Quality System Certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001 401 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 – GPO Box 2282U, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia Tel: (03) 9629 6888 Fax: (03) 9629 1250 (03) 9224 5387 [email protected] .