Best Customers
Subtitle: Demographics of Consumer Demand (Best Customers)
Edition: 3rd edition
Publisher: New Strategist Publications
Published: December 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y. : USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 754
ISBN-13: 9781885070753
Subjects: Consumer Behavior - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Reference - General
Table of contents: title: Alcoholic beverages. Highlights -- Beer and ale at home -- Beer and ale away from home -- Whiskey and other alcohol at home -- Whiskey and other alcohol away from home -- Wine at home -- Wine away from home -- Apparel. Highlights -- Apparel, boys’ -- Apparel, girls’ -- Apparel, infants’ -- Apparel, men’s -- Apparel, women’s -- Jewelry -- Laundry and dry cleaning of apparel, coin-operated -- Laundry and dry cleaning of apparel, professional -- Shoes, boys’ -- Shoes, girls’ -- Shoes, men’s -- Shoes, women’s -- Watches -- Computers. Highlights -- Computer information services -- Computers and computer hardware for nonbusiness use -- Computer software and accessories for nonbusiness use -- Education -- Highlights --  Board, including at school -- Books and supplies, college -- Books and supplies, elementary and high school -- Housing while attending school -- School lunch -- Tuition, college -- Tuition, elementary and high school -- Entertainment -- Highlights -- Admission to sports events -- Athletic gear, game tables, exercise equipment -- Bicycles -- Cable TV or community antenna -- CD, tape, record, video mail order clubs -- CDs, audiotapes, records -- Club memberships (social, recreational, civic) -- Fees for participant sports -- Fees for recreational lessons -- Film -- Film processing -- Motorized recreational vehicles -- Movie, theater, opera, and ballet tickets -- Musical instruments and accessories -- Pet food -- Pet purchase, supplies, medicines -- Pet services -- Photographer’s fees -- Photographic equipment -- Sound components, equipment, and accessories -- Television sets -- Toys, games, hobbies, and tricycles -- VCRs and video disc players -- Veterinary services -- Video cassettes, tapes, and discs -- Video game hardware and software -- Videotape, disc, and film rental -- Financial products and services. Highlights -- Accounting fees -- Bank service charges -- Cash contributions to charitable organizations -- Cash contributions to educational institutions -- Cash contributions to political organizations -- Cash contributions to churches and religious organizations -- Cash gifts -- Child support -- Contributions to retirement accounts (nonpayroll deposits) -- Credit card membership fees -- Deductions for government retirement -- Deductions for private pensions -- Deductions for social security -- Finance charges, except mortgage and vehicle -- Funeral expenses -- Insurance, life and other personal, except health -- Legal fees -- Lottery and gambling losses -- Occupational expenses -- Safe deposit box rental -- Shopping club memberships -- Support for college students -- Tax, federal income -- Tax, state and local income -- Furnishings and equipment -- Highlights -- Major appliances -- Bathroom linens -- Bedroom furniture, except mattresses and springs -- Bedroom linens -- Closet and storage items -- Curtains and draperies -- Decorative items for the home -- Floor coverings -- Housewares -- Kitchen and dining room furniture -- Kitchen and dining room linens -- Kitchen appliances, small electric -- Lamps and lighting fixtures -- Lawn and garden equipment -- Living room chairs -- Living room tables -- Mattresses and springs -- Outdoor equipment -- Outdoor furniture -- Plants and fresh flowers, indoor -- Sewing materials for household items -- Sofas -- Wall units, cabinets, and other furniture -- Gifts for non–household members -- Highlights -- Gifts of appliances and miscellaneous housewares -- Gifts of educational expenses -- Gifts of entertainment -- Gifts of food -- Gifts of health care expenses -- Gifts of miscellaneous household equipment -- Gifts of household textiles -- Gifts of housekeeping supplies -- Gifts of infants’ apparel -- Gifts of jewelry -- Gifts of men’s and boys’ apparel -- Gifts of personal care products and services -- Gifts of shoes -- Gifts of transportation -- Gifts of toys, games, hobbies, and tricycles -- Gifts of trip expenses -- Gifts of women’s and girls’ apparel -- Groceries -- Highlights -- Apples -- Baby food -- Bacon -- Bakery products, frozen and refrigerated -- Baking needs and miscellaneous products -- Bananas -- Biscuits and rolls -- Bread and cracker products -- Bread, except white -- Bread, white -- Butter -- Cakes and cupcakes -- Candy and chewing gum -- Carbonated drinks, colas -- Carbonated drinks, noncolas -- Cereal, ready-to-eat and cooked -- Cheese -- Chicken -- Citrus fruit, fresh, except oranges -- Coffee, instant and freeze-dried -- Coffee, roasted -- Cookies -- Crackers -- Cream -- Dairy -- Desserts, prepared -- Eggs -- Fats and oils -- Fish and seafod, canned -- Fish and shellfish, fresh -- Fish and shellfish, frozen -- Flour -- Flour, prepared mixes -- Frankfurters -- Fruit, canned -- Fruit, fresh, except apples, bananas, and citrus -- Fruit-flavored drinks, noncarbonated -- Fruit juice, canned and bottled -- Fruit juice, fresh -- Fruit juice, frozen -- Ground beef -- Ham -- Ice cream and related products -- Jams, preserves, and other sweets -- Lettuce -- Lunch meats (cold cuts) -- Margarine -- Milk, fresh -- Nonalcoholic beverages and ice -- Nondairy cream and imitation milk -- Nuts -- Olives, pickles, and relishes -- Oranges -- Pasta, cornmeal, and other cereal products -- Peanut butter -- Pies, tarts, and turnovers -- Pork, except bacon, frankfurters, ham, pork chops, sausage -- Pork chops -- Potato chips and other snacks -- Potatoes, fresh -- Poultry, except chicken -- Prepared food, except salads, desserts, and frozen meals -- Prepared food, frozen, except meals -- Prepared meals, frozen -- Rice -- Roast beef -- Salad dressing -- Salads, prepared -- Salt, spices, and other seasonings -- Sauces and gravies -- Sausage -- Soups, canned and packaged -- Steak -- Sugar -- Sweetrolls, coffee cakes, and doughnuts -- Tea -- Tomatoes, fresh -- Vegetable juices -- Vegetables, canned, except beans and corn -- Vegetables, canned beans -- Vegetables, canned corn -- Vegetables, dried, except beans -- Vegetables, dried beans -- Vegetables, fresh, except lettuce, potatoes, and tomatoes -- Vegetables, frozen -- Health care. Highlights -- Dental services (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Drugs, nonprescription -- Drugs, prescription (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Eye care services (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Eyeglasses and contact lenses (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Health insurance (out-of-pocket payments) -- Hospital services other than room (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Lab tests and x-rays (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Medicare premiums -- Medicare supplements, commercial -- Nonphysician health care professional services (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Physician services (out-of-pocket expenses) -- Vitamins, nonprescription -- Household services. Highlights -- Appliance repair -- Babysitting and child care in own home or other home -- Day care centers, nurseries, and preschools -- Gardening and lawn care services -- Home security system service fee -- Housekeeping services -- Moving, storage, and freight express -- Termite and pest control products and services -- Housekeeping supplies. Highlights -- Cleansing and toilet tissue, paper towels, and napkins -- Laundry and cleaning supplies -- Lawn and garden supplies -- Postage -- Stationery, stationery supplies, and giftwrap -- Personal care. Highlights -- Cosmetics, perfume and bath products -- Deodorants, feminine hygiene, and miscellaneous personal care products -- Hair care products -- Oral hygiene products -- Personal care services -- Shaving products -- Reading material -- Highlights -- Books, except those purchased through book clubs -- Books purchased through book clubs -- Magazine subscriptions -- Magazines, nonsubscription -- Newspaper subscriptions -- Newspapers, nonsubscription -- Restaurants and carry-outs. Highlights -- Breakfast at fast-food restaurants -- Breakfast at full-service restaurants -- Dinner at fast-food restaurants -- Dinner at full-service restaurants -- Lunch at employer and school cafeterias -- Lunch at fast-food restaurants -- Lunch at full-service restaurants -- Snacks at employer and school cafeterias -- Snacks at fast-food restaurants -- Snacks at full-service restaurants -- Snacks at vending machines and mobile vendors --  Shelter. Highlights -- Home equity loan/line of credit interest -- Insurance, homeowner’s -- Insurance, tenant’s -- Maintenance and repair materials, owned homes -- Maintenance and repair services, owned homes -- Mortgage interest -- Property management and security, owned homes -- Property taxes -- Rent -- Vacation homes, owned -- Telephone. Highlights -- Cellular phone service -- Phone cards -- Residential telephone service and pay phones -- Telephones, answering machines, and accessories -- Tobacco. Highlights -- Cigarettes -- Smoking accessories -- Tobacco products other than cigarettes -- Transportation. Highlights -- Automobile service clubs -- Car lease payments -- Cars, new -- Cars, used -- Gasoline and motor oil (including on trips) -- Mass transit fares, intracity -- Oil change, lube, and oil filters -- Parking fees in home city -- Rented vehicles (including on trips ) -- Taxi fares and limousine service, home city -- Tires (purchased, replaced, installed) -- Towing charges -- Truck lease payments -- Trucks, new -- Trucks, used -- Vehicle finance charges -- Vehicle insurance -- Vehicle maintenance and repair -- Travel -- Highlights -- Airline fares -- Alcoholic beverages purchased on trips -- Auto rentals on trips -- Bus fares, intercity -- Gasoline on trips -- Groceries on trips -- Lodging on trips -- Luggage -- Parking fees and tolls on trips -- Recreational expenses on trips -- Restaurant and carry-out food on trips -- Ship fares -- Taxi fares, limousine service, and local transportation on trips -- Train fares, intercity -- Utilities. Highlights -- Bottled gas -- Electricity -- Fuel oil -- Natural gas -- Trash collection -- Water and sewerage maintenance -- Appendix A : about the consumer expenditure survey -- Appendix B : percent reporting expenditure and amount spent, average quarter, 2002 -- Appendix C : spending by product and service, 2002 ranking -- Appendix D : spending trends, 1997 to 2002 -- Glossary.