Virtual bundling is a promotional offer in which obtaining free product or money discount is linked to the purchase of a certain number of products presented separately. As a promotional technique offering numerous advantages to retailers and manufacturers, virtual bundling is more and more used...

PurposeUsing a classification of benefits and costs of promotional offers (Raghubir et al., 2004) along three routes – economic, informational and affective – this paper aims at evaluating, from the consumer's point of view, the relative perceptual disadvantages of separate-item bundles...

The high costs associated with traditional promotional techniques lead retailers and industrials to adopt new promotional formats, especially “separate-item bundles”. After presenting this promotional format and its managerial stakes, the article first analyzes the advantages and constraints...

A multi-mechanism promotion includes in the same communication several promotional techniques. The relative efficiency of this kind of promotion on consumers' choices depends upon two antagonist effects. On the one hand, prospect theory predicts a positive direct influence of multiple mechanisms...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of monetary multi-mechanism promotions. These promotions include in the same communication several techniques offered either by the retailer or by the producer. The conceptual framework relies on prospect theory, already used in marketing...

A multi-mechanism sales promotion includes in the same communication several promotion techniques offered either by the retailer or the producer. Framing theory suggests that increasing the number of techniques could increase the perceived value for consumers. A between-subjects experimentation...

Le lot virtuel est une offre promotionnelle qui conditionne l'obtention d'une gratuité ou d'une réduction à l'achat simultané d'un nombre déterminé d'unités de produits présentées séparément. Technique promotionnelle présentant de nombreux avantages pour les distributeurs comme pour...

A multi-dimensional price contains several elements the client has to put together to obtain the final price. The announcement of a multi-dimensional price usually is limited to a focus on only one of the dimensions as this presentation entices the consumer in perceiving a reduced price. Using...

Mainly based on banners, online communication is very attractive but consists in a small part of overall advertisement investments. Audience measurement and its qualification are primordial for both sites which want to measure their traffic and performance, and also for announcers who want to...

Promoting direct competing brands in the same page of a retailer store flyer has become a current managerial practice. This study questions the relevance of this practice by examining its negative effect on brand and promotion recall. It postulates the existence of an interference effect,...