Impact of Social Media on ASDA

This assignment investigates the influence of social media on consumer purchasing behavior, particularly in relation to the supermarket chain ASDA. It requires students to conduct research on evaluation methods, analyze how social media impacts consumer decision-making, and evaluate the effectiveness of ASDA's social media marketing strategies. The assignment includes a questionnaire to gather data and insights into consumer perceptions and behaviors related to ASDA and social media.

The impact of social
media on consumer
choice

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1....................................................................................................................................3
1.1) Overview.........................................................................................................................3
1.2) Factors contributing in research project selection...........................................................3
1.3) Literature review.............................................................................................................4
1.4) Methodology...................................................................................................................5
1.5) Gantt Chart......................................................................................................................6
CHAPTER2.....................................................................................................................................8
2.1) Relation between research question and hypothesis.......................................................8
2.2) Data collection................................................................................................................8
2.3) Research investigation..................................................................................................11
CHAPTER3...................................................................................................................................14
3.1) Research evaluation techniques....................................................................................14
3.2) Data analysis.................................................................................................................15
3.3) Recommendations.........................................................................................................21
CHAPTER4...................................................................................................................................23
4.1) Conclusion & recommendation.....................................................................................23
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................24

CHAPTER 1
1.1) Overview
In present era, organizations are focusing on their marketing activities so that they will be
able to attract number of people towards their services. For this, they are using social networking
sites in order to increase the brand awareness and recognition in the market (Shirky, 2011).
Through this, companies will be able to sustain their competitive advantage as compare to their
rivals. There are some of the social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and so
on. People will be able to know about the different features of the services and products that are
offered by retail industry.
The present research project is based on ASDA which offer grocery products to their
service users. They are focusing on their marketing strategies so that they will be able to build a
strong base of consumers.
Title: To identify the impact of social media on the consumer choices.
Aim: To identify the impact of social media on the consumer choice.
Research objectives: There are some of the objectives of current research which are stated
below:
 To identify the effectiveness of the social media for the organization.
 To evaluate the customer’s needs and demands.
 To analyse that how social media can affect the consumer choice in an efficient manner.
 To provide some of the recommendations that how an organization can enhance their
performance in the market.
Research question
Q1. What is the use of social media?
Q2. What is the relationship between the social media and customer’s needs?
Q3. How social media can affect the customer’s preferences?
1.2) Factors contributing in research project selection
There are distinctive components which help in effective and suitable research study for
the desired topic. There a few criteria by which an association will get appropriate help in doing
the powerful research:

 Marketing-This helps the association in drawing in more clients by giving them goods
and services, so for this company need to think and investigate about all the required
aspects of market then according to that
 Finance- This is the best technique as this will help analyst to make decision regarding
research in exact way. It will be extremely dangerous for an analyst to complete his
exploration in required way.
 Administrations and management- They have the expert to choose or to ignore any of
the undertakings which an organization is taking a shot at, as they have the primary
obligation to care for all the services related works in a company.
 Knowledge and experience: These factors also play a vital role in order to select a
research topic. If knowledge and experience level for the particular topic is high, then it
became easy for an individual to conduct a field of study.
 Access to information: The information for this topic is available on the internet and in
different books, journals. So, it will be easy for me to analyse the impact of social media
on the consumer behaviour.
1.3) Literature review
According to the views of Dabbagh and Kitsantas (2012) social media is a medium
through which companies can share the content with their customers so that they will be able to
know about the different services of the organization. There are some of the social networking
sites are like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and so on. On the basis of these, an enterprise can post
about their services on the different sites so that customers attention can be grabbed. Through
this, the total sales of retail industry can be increased in an efficient manner. It has been analysed
by Stelzner (2011) that social media is a tool that can boost the overall growth and economy of
the company. Through this, the two-way communication can be established between the
consumers and organization. So, in manner they will be able to know about the requirements of
their end users.
Tufekci and Wilson (2012) says that there are some types of social media such as social
networking sites, social news, media sharing sites, blogs and so on. On the basis of these, ASDA
will be able to increase their overall performance at the marketplace. Along with this, marketing
manager can conduct an online survey in order to collect the information about the consumer’s

needs and demands. Social media marketing plays their vital role in the business organization so
that success can be achieved and their overall objectives can be achieved.
It has been confronted by Heller Baird and Parasnis (2011) that social media affect the
choice and demands of the people and through this they will be able to get higher returns of their
investments. On the basis of these types of social media, an enterprise will be able to know about
the demands of their consumers and this will lead towards the success. Social media influence
the organization in positive as well as negative manner. It has been criticised by De Vries,
Gensler and Leeflang (2012) if an enterprise adopts some social media strategies then they will
be able to increase their image, attract number of people, sustain the competitive advantage and
so on. On the other hand, if any customer has bad experience with the company they will post
negative comment on their site and due to this performance might get affected.
1.4) Methodology
Title: To identify the impact of social media on the consumer choices.
Aim: To identify the impact of social media on the consumer choice.
Research objectives: There are some of the objectives of current research which are stated
below:
 To identify the effectiveness of the social media for the organization.
 To evaluate the customer’s needs and demands.
 To analyse that how social media can affect the consumer choice in an efficient manner.
 To provide some of the recommendations that how an organization can enhance their
performance in the market.
Research question
Q1. What is the use of social media?
Q2. What is the relationship between the social media and customer’s needs?
Q3. How social media can affect the customer’s preferences?
Research methodology is a process that is used to conduct the overall research in a
systematic manner. Through this, research aim and objectives can be accomplished in an
efficient manner (Snyder, 2012). Here, descriptive design has been used by the researcher so that
in depth understanding about the social media and their impact can be identified. Along with
this, interpretivism philosophy is used by them so that qualitative research can be conducted in

an efficient manner. Deductive approach is used in this current research project and information
is gathered from primary as well as secondary sources.
Sampling is a technique that is used by the researcher in order to select a sample from
overall population. Here, random sampling has been used in an efficient manner so that the
reviews of the respondents can be identified (Pierre, 2012). Furthermore, thematic analysis is
adopted by the researcher in which different themes and graphs are formed and data can be
analysed in successful manner.
Contribution: The present research is focused on impact of social media on the choices of
people. I have collected information from various sources such as primary and secondary. After
this, the project gets completed in an effective manner. Along with this, I have conducted a
survey on number of people so that information on such topic can be collected.
1.5) Gantt Chart
The action plan can be made on the basis of Gantt chart. On the basis of this, different
activities can be formed with their time in which tasks can be completed in an effective manner.
By preparing this type of plan, overall research can be conducted in an appropriate manner.

Network diagram

CHAPTER2
2.1) Relation between research question and hypothesis
The research resources are related to the data that is gathered from primary and secondary
source as through this overall research can be completed in more effective manner. Primary is
related to the surveys that is conducted at the marketplace and some of these surveys are related
to questionnaire, interview, observation and so on. (O'Keeffe and Clarke-Pearson, 2011) On the
other hand, secondary is related to the different opinion of the authors, book, journals, internet
and so on. The resources are more efficiently used in this study as through this overall research
questions can be resolved in more successful manner. Through this, it can be ensured that overall
project is completed in an ethical way by following the legal laws.
Here, in this current research project both primary and secondary resources are used so
that overall understanding of social media can be increased and their impact on customer’s
choice can be identified. Along with this, it is the responsibility of researcher to identify all the
potential risks that are associated with the study. Primary resources are related to the data which
is collected from surveys such as questionnaire. Along with this, information can be gathered
from books, journals, research papers, internet, articles, publications and so on.
There is relationship between the different resources and research questions as through
different sources the data for all research questions can be analysed. The overall information
about the social media and their relationship with the customer’s interest can be identified. The
researcher is responsible for all consequences that are generated from different operations and
activities. Along with this, researcher has to give the respect to all decisions that are given by
other participants so that overall research goals and objectives can be completed.
2.2) Data collection
In the current research project, questionnaire has been used by the researcher so that he
will be able to know about the impact of social media on the customer choice. There are some
open ended and close ended questions are included into the questionnaire so that different views
and opinion of people can be identified. Here, sample size is selected by the researcher is 20
customers. Sampling is an approach that is used in order to extract a small sample from large
population in order to conduct the study in more effective manner. The questionnaire is stated
below:

Questionnaire
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Q1. Do you use social media networking sites?
 Yes
 no
Q2. How long have you been using these sites?
 Less than 1 month
 less than 6 months
 6 months to 1 year
 More than 1 year
Q3. How much time do you spent on the social media?
 Less than 1 hour
 1 to 2 hours
 2 to 3 hours
 More than 3 hours
Q4. Do you agree that social media is the main source for getting information about the product
and services of ASDA?
 Strongly agree
 Agree
 Neutral
 Disagree
 Strongly disagree
Q5. Do you think that advertisement and promotion on media is beneficial for an organisation?
 Yes
 No
 Can't say
Q6. Which of the factors influence your prejudgement about the products and services?
 Brand reputation
 Brand awareness

 Previous experience
 Information from friends and family
Q7. Does social networking media influence you to purchase different products and services of
ASDA?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q8. Do you search for the information about the particular goods over internet before any
purchase?
 Always
 Often
 Sometimes
 Seldom
 Rarely never
Q9. On the basis of your experience, will you recommend the services of ASDA to your friends
and family?
 Yes
 No
 Can't say
Q10. Do you agree that social media can attract more customers towards their services than
other mass media?
 Strongly agree
 Agree
 Neutral
 Disagree
 Strongly disagree
Q11. Recommend some of the ways so that ASDA will be able to enhance their services and
customer’s satisfaction level can be increased.

2.3) Research investigation
The examination in this report is to done in an effective manner, to the point that the
request and issues that was developing in business get settled. Survey is one of the best way to
deal with perceive what decisively client require. The impact of online person to person
communication on obtaining conduct and essential administration technique of purchasers are all
around separated with this investigation contemplate. There are distinctive procedures which can
help in the examination consider. The customer's conduct has been considered in the
investigation. This framework is used to get the convincing result and to enhance the execution
of affiliation's operations.
A conclusive focus of the investigation technique is to appreciate mindset of buyers and
way they follow up on few changes that the firm does in its products and services. With help of
this investigation consider the student will have ability to settle on practical decision on various
parts of the business works out. The reason and the objective of picking this examination method
are-
 To achieve the effective result
 To perceive the required things that the affiliation must focus on.
 Relevance in the data
 Correct and accurate information.
Do you use social media networking sites? Frequency
Yes 16
No 4
How long have you been using these sites? Frequency
Less than 1 month 4
less than 6 months 3
6 months to 1 year 10
More than 1 year 3
How much time do you spent on the social media? Frequency
Less than 1 hour 5
1 to 2 hours 8

2 to 3 hours 4
More than 3 hours 3
Do you agree that social media is the main source for getting
information about the product and services of ASDA?
Frequency
Strongly agree 4
Agree 8
Neutral 2
Disagree 5
Strongly disagree 1
Do you think that advertisement and promotion on media is
beneficial for an organisation?
Frequency
Yes 9
No 5
Can't say 6
Which of the factors influence your prejudgement about the
products and services?
Frequency
Brand reputation 3
Brand awareness 6
Previous experience 5
Information from friends and family 6
Does social networking media influence you to purchase different
products and services of ASDA?
Frequency
Yes 13
No 5
Not sure 2

Do you search for the information about the particular goods over
internet before any purchase?
Frequency
Always 8
Often 4
Sometimes 3
Seldom 3
Rarely never 2
On the basis of your experience, will you recommend the services of
ASDA to your friends and family?
Frequency
Yes 9
No 6
Can't say 5
Do you agree that social media can attract more customers towards
their services than other mass media?
Frequency
Strongly agree 6
Agree 8
Neutral 1
Disagree 2
Strongly disagree 3

CHAPTER3
3.1) Research evaluation techniques
There are two types of research evaluation techniques that can be used by researcher in
order to evaluate the views of different people so that they will be able to accomplish their
research objectives. Formative and summative techniques are there which can be used in order to
carry out analysis. Here, in the present report summative approach has been followed in which
feedback is gathered after submitting the research project.
Step1-
Mainly they concentrate on the issues which is incorporated segments, which must be
examined and at the middle on which methodological verbal confrontations assumed a part.
Introduction: In this section the outline of the venture is been portrayed that what all are been
incorporated into it. The aims and objectives are composed in it which is the basic for the
research study
Step 2
Literature Review: In this section it is characterized the feelings of the diverse writer in a
distinctive course about the protest which is incorporated into the venture. The investigators will
enlighten the distinctive regarding the things as indicated by the buyer dedication and the reward
plots in the association.
Step 3
Research Methodology: In this part the diverse devices which has been utilized as a part
of the examination by the specialist to make the study more effective and appropriate has been
characterized.
Steps 4
Analysis and finding: In the report discovering which has been accomplished by the
analyst is been composed in this.
Steps 5
Conclusion and the suggestion: In this all the finding and every aspect that has been done
are in the above report. The report is being deduced in this part.

3.2) Data analysis
Data analysis is a process that is used to inspect, transform and modelling the data so that
customer’s views can be identified. Through this, useful and relevant information can be
collected regarding to the impact of social media on customer’s behaviour. For this, thematic
analysis has been applied by the researcher so that data can be interpreted on the basis of
different graphs. Through this, the view point of different people can be identified or examined
in more effective manner and through this ASDA will be able to achieve their profits.
Theme 1: Customers are using social media networking sites.
Yes No
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
16
4
Column B
Findings: From the above graph it can be analysed that there are 80% people who using
social media sites but 20% people are still there who are not using these sites. In this manner it
can be concluded that social media is used by many customers and through this company can
many customers towards their services.
Theme 2: People are using social media for more than 6 months or less than 1 year.

Less than 1 month
less than 6 months
6 months to 1 year
More than 1 year
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
4
3
10
3
Column B
Findings: Through this graphical representation, it can be interpreted that 20% people are
using social sites less than one month, 15% customers are using not more than 6 months, 50%
service users are using from 6 months to 1 year and there are 15% people are using social media
from more than 1 year. Through this, it can be analysed that there are many people who are using
these sites so companies can attract more users towards their services.
Theme 3: There are some service users who spend approx 1 to 2 hours over social media.
Less than 1 hour 1 to 2 hours 2 to 3 hours More than 3 hours
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
5
8
4
3
Findings: From the above graphical representation it can be concluded that 25% people
spent less than 1 hour, 40% service users are using 1 to 2 hours, 20% are using 2 to 3 hours and

15% customers are using social sites for more than 3 hours. Through this, researcher get to know
about the service users that how much time they spent on the internet and on the basis of that
ASDA will be able to make their strategies.
Theme 4: People are agreed with this statement that social media is a source for getting
information about the products and services of ASDA.
Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
4
8
2
5
1
Column B
Findings: From the above graph it can be interpreted that there are 20% people who are
strongly agreed with this statement that social media is a source for getting the information about
the services. Same as there are 40% customers agreed, 10% people have neutral reaction, 25%
service users are disagreed with this statement and 5% users are strongly disagreeing about this
statement. So, in this manner the view point of different people can be identified.
Theme 5: Consumers think that advertisement and promotion on media is beneficial for
the organisation.

Yes No Can't say
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 9
5
6
Column B
Findings: From the above graph it can be analysed that people have different opinion over
this statement as approx 45% respondent says that advertisement and promotion are beneficial
for the organisation as through company’s overall sales can be increased. Apart from this, 25%
customers are not agreed with this statement and 30% users have no view over this statement.
Theme 6: Brand awareness and information from friends can influence the prejudgement
of the customer regarding to the products.
Brand reputation
Brand awareness
Previous experience
Information from friends and family
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
3
6
5
6
Column B
Findings: From the above graph it can be concluded that there are some factors which may
influence the prejudgement of an individual while purchasing the products. As there are approx
15% people who says that brand reputation can affect their decisions, 30% customers thinks that

brand awareness is the factor, 25% service users says that previous experience can affect the
purchasing power and 30% people also says that friends & family affect the prejudgement about
the products and services that are offered by ASDA.
Theme 7: Social media influence the customers to purchase service from ASDA.
Yes No Not sure
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14 13
5
2
Column B
Findings: From this graphical representation it can be analysed that 65% are agreed with
this statement that social media can affect the customers purchasing behaviour, 25% customers
are disagreed with this statement and 10% service users have no opinion over this statement.
Theme 8: People search for the information over internet regarding to the commodities.
Always Often Sometimes Seldom never
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
8
4
3 3
2
Column B

Findings: On the basis of this graph, it can be analysed that 40% people always search for
the information about the products over the internet. 20% customers search for the information,
15% customers sometimes use internet, 15% seldom search for the information about the
commodities and 10% people never uses social media in order to search for the information of
the particular services.
Theme 9: People will recommend the service of ASDA to their friends and family.
Yes No Can't say
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 9
6
5
Column B
Findings: From the above graphical representation it can be concluded that 45% people
recommend the services of ASDA to their friends and family on the basis of their experience.
Same as approx 30% customers are not recommend their services to other people and 25%
service users have no reaction over this statement.
Theme 10: Social media can attract number of customers towards the services of ASDA
than other mass media.

Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
6
8
1
2
3
Column B
Findings: On the basis of the above graph, it can be analysed that 30% people are strongly
agreed with this statement, 40% customers are agreeing, 5% service users have neutral reaction,
10% people are disagreeing with this statement and 15% consumers are strongly disagreeing
with this statement that social media can attract number of people towards the service of retail
industry.
Theme 11: Customers recommend some of the ways through which the satisfaction level
among all the people can be increased.
Findings: There are different customers who gave their different views and opinions that
how customers satisfaction can be increased. Some consumers suggest that company should
upload some blogs, images and special deals on the social networking sites so that their overall
performance can be increased in more effective manner. Apart from this, some customers
suggest that quality in services can attract more people towards the services. So, in this manner
ASDA can enhance their performance and customer’s satisfaction can be increased.
3.3) Recommendations
From the above carried out analysis it can be summarised that social media play an
important role in enhancing the brand image of an organisation. On the basis of these, they will
be able to increase the brand awareness among all the customers and an enterprise. Through
questionnaire, the opinion and views of different people can be identified so that overall growth
of ASDA can be increased. On the basis of these, there are some recommendations that should

be followed by the firm so that profitability level can be achieved. Through these, the retail
industry will be able to increase their market share and competitiveness can be achieved. Some
of these recommendations are as follows:
ASDA can use some offline the current research project, questionnaire has been used by the
researcher so that he will be able to know about the impact of social media on the customer
choice. There are some open ended and close ended questions are included into the questionnaire
so that different views and opinion of people can be identified. Here, sample size is selected by
the researcher is 20 customers. Sampling is an approach that is used in order to extract a small
sample from large population in order to conduct the study in more effective manner. The
questionnaire is stated below:
 E-advertisement and promotional activities in order to attract all people towards their
services. Through this, customers who are not using social media they will also be able to
know about the different features and benefits of the products. So, in this manner an
effective communication can be established between the consumers and the firm. The
overall sales and profitability can be achieved and that can lead a firm towards success.
 The retail industry can also expand their business into different countries so that they will
be able to improve their brand image. Through diversification approach, they will be able
to offer new services into new market so in this manner ASDA will be able to sustain
their competitive advantage as compare to other rival firm. The manager can post the
information about the new products and services to their website so that brand awareness
can be increased.
 Company can start focusing on the training and development as through this the core
competencies of employees can be enhanced. When their knowledge is get increased they
will be able to deal with their customers in more effective manner. All service users can
get the quality services so in this manner overall customers base can be created. For this,
ASDA can use both on the job and off the job training for their staff members so that
their overall performance can be increased.

CHAPTER4
4.1) Conclusion & recommendation
There are many media that can be used by the researcher in order to present the findings
and recommendations to members of an organisation (Kim and Ko, 2012). For this, an
appropriate medium should be selected so that other target audience clearly know about the
overall outcomes. Power point presentation is a best example as through this researcher will be
able to communicate the large number of people so in this manner their overall understanding
can be increased. Along with this, public media can also be used in order to reduce the
communication gap between the customers and company.
It is the responsibility of researcher to prepare a documentation of the overall research
project so that evaluation can be done in more appropriate manner. After the documentation,
feedback can be received from all the people so that views and opinions of different people can
be identified. On the basis of their views, an effective strategy can be formulated so that overall
aim and objectives of ASDA can be accomplished. This will be beneficial for the retail industry
as well as their consumers and that will lead towards the success. Furthermore, company will be
able to know about the impact of social media on the customer’s choices.

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APPENDIX
Questionnaire
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Q1. Do you use social media networking sites?
 Yes
 no
Q2. How long have you been using these sites?
 Less than 1 month
 less than 6 months
 6 months to 1 year
 More than 1 year
Q3. How much time do you spent on the social media?
 Less than 1 hour
 1 to 2 hours
 2 to 3 hours
 More than 3 hours
Q4. Do you agree that social media is the main source for getting information about the product
and services of ASDA?
 Strongly agree
 Agree
 Neutral
 Disagree
 Strongly disagree
Q5. Do you think that advertisement and promotion on media is beneficial for an organisation?
 Yes
 No
 Can't say
Q6. Which of the factors influence your prejudgement about the products and services?
 Brand reputation

 Brand awareness
 Previous experience
 Information from friends and family
Q7. Does social networking media influence you to purchase different products and services of
ASDA?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q8. Do you search for the information about the particular goods over internet before any
purchase?
 Always
 Often
 Sometimes
 Seldom
 Rarely never
Q9. On the basis of your experience, will you recommend the services of ASDA to your friends
and family?
 Yes
 No
 Can't say
Q10. Do you agree that social media can attract more customers towards their services than other
mass media?
 Strongly agree
 Agree
 Neutral
 Disagree
 Strongly disagree
Q11. Recommend some of the ways so that ASDA will be able to enhance their services and
customer’s satisfaction level can be increased.
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