A strategic approach to ecommerce personalization is key to ensuring your business stands out in the market—and personalization is something that customers expect across all touchpoints. It’s also good for your bottom line, which is why 89% of business leaders believe personalization will be valuable to their business success in the next three years.
The challenge is that personalization has become both more important and harder to execute at scale. Google has shifted Privacy Sandbox in Chrome toward a model that emphasizes user choice and stronger privacy protections. It’s made it difficult for retailers who had become reliant on third-party cookies—which means most retailers—to create the personalization experiences that their customers want.
Personalization is still within reach, and it’s now poised to become more powerful than ever, as brands shift to first-party data instead. With first-party data in hand, unified on a single ecommerce platform, retailers can create more relevant personalization experiences throughout the ecommerce funnel. And they can even work personalization into IRL experiences.
Learning the basics of ecommerce personalization with first-party data can help you sell more, retain customers, and increase customer lifetime value (CLV). To make that possible at scale, brands need the right data foundation and the ability to activate it across every touchpoint. Let’s take a closer look at how to go about it.
What is ecommerce personalization?
Ecommerce personalization is the practice of tailoring online shopping experiences to individual customers. This is done by delivering relevant content, product recommendations, offers, shopping experiences, and support based on customer preferences, behavior, and demographics, and first-party data.
The goal of ecommerce personalization is to enhance customer satisfaction, engagement, and conversion rates by providing a personalized shopping journey.
Types of ecommerce personalization across the funnel
Ecommerce personalization isn’t just one feature. It looks different depending on where the shopper is in the customer journey:
| Funnel stage | Ecommerce personalization examples |
|---|---|
| Awareness | Dynamic landing pages that match the headline of the ad they clicked on. Email popup form that offers 10% off for first-time customers. |
| Consideration | "Frequently bought together" or "customers also viewed" widgets. Personalized search results based on items they’ve previously viewed. |
| Conversion | Showing items available for same-day in-store pickup based on the user's IP address. Personalized email or SMS campaigns that show items abandoned in the shopper’s online cart. Predictive cross-sells at checkout—for example, a cleaning kit for the new pair of sneakers in their cart. |
| Loyalty | “Time to restock!” emails when the customer’s product is likely to run out. Website banners that encourage customers to spend their loyalty rewards. |
Delivering this consistently requires data that follows the customer across channels.
Benefits of ecommerce personalization
These results don’t come from individual tactics. They come from using customer data to make each interaction more relevant across the customer journey.
Increase conversion rates
With personalization, you can show relevant products to your customers based on their browsing history. This helps customers with their top priority: finding products easily. When this happens consistently, it becomes easier to move shoppers toward purchase.
Gartner also found customers who experience active personalization are 2.3 times more likely to confidently complete critical purchase decisions. Personalized recommendations also drive up lifetime value, as they increase the likelihood that a customer will return for more.
Improved customer experience
By creating a personalized shopping experience based on customers’ needs and interests, you can improve overall customer satisfaction. Twilio’s recent study shows 64% of customers would quit a brand if their experience wasn’t personalized.
Ecommerce personalization also makes the shopping experience more convenient, something that McKinsey found customers have a growing appetite for. That convenience becomes more valuable across channels, from storefront discovery to retention messaging and service.
And it’s not just the experience of browsing: Personalized marketing also increases the relevance of outreach efforts, lowering the chances that a customer will hide advertisements in their social feeds or unsubscribe from a company newsletter, thereby keeping the channels of communication open.
Likewise, customer service agents, whether human or AI chatbots, are better able to provide the support their customers need when they are fully briefed with a customer profile that includes past purchases, browsing history, and issues they’ve communicated about before. These personalized customer service experiences are a powerful means of retaining customers.
Higher average order value (AOV)
Personalized product recommendations can help cross-sell and upsell complementary or higher-value items. You can also send tailored discounts and bundle products based on buying behavior to increase AOV. These tactics work best when purchase, browsing, and loyalty data are used together to make the offer feel relevant.
Once an agent has provided great service, that’s a great time to cross- or upsell. In fact, cross-selling can even be the solution when a customer calls in looking for an out-of-stock product. With customer buying habits and previous purchases in hand, the agent can easily recommend similar products to satisfy the customer’s needs.
Data foundations for personalization
Personalization only works when the data behind it is accurate, unified, and accessible across teams.
What first-party data includes (and where it comes from)
First-party data is the behavioral information your brand collects directly from interactions through your website, app, or physical store. It reflects what customers actually do, which can differ from what they say they want.
Examples include:
- Engagement: Pages viewed, time spent on site, and email click-through rates
- Navigation patterns: Search queries, filter usage, and referral sources
- Transaction history: Past purchases, average order value, and returns
- Loyalty interaction: Points balance, reward redemption history, and “anniversary” milestones
First-party data allows you to automate real-time triggers—like a "back in stock" alert for a previously viewed item—and build sophisticated segments based on actual spending habits and lifecycle stages. This kind of data makes it possible to personalize experiences without relying on third-party tracking.
Where zero-party data fits
Zero-party data is information that a customer explicitly shares with your brand. Unlike other data types, there is no inference or guesswork; the customer is telling you who they are and what they want in exchange for a better experience.
You could collect zero-party data to understand:
- Preferences: Favorite colors, preferred size, or dietary restrictions
- Context: Intent for purchase (e.g., "shopping for a wedding") or skin type
- Frequency: How often they want to receive emails or SMS alerts
Zero-party data gives extra context to your first-party data. For example, while behavioral data might show someone browsing baby clothes, zero-party data sourced from your email popup form prevents you from incorrectly labeling them as a parent. They’re actually shopping for their niece’s first birthday, as explained in your gift guide quiz. Combined with first-party data, this gives brands the context needed to personalize responsibly.
Once this foundation is in place, personalization becomes a set of repeatable capabilities across the funnel.
Learn more: Zero-Party Data vs. First-Party Data: Navigating the New Era
12 scalable ecommerce personalization tactics
With the right data foundation, personalization can be applied across discovery, merchandising, messaging, and checkout. The tactics below show how brands scale ecommerce personalization across the entire customer journey:
- Incentivize customer sign-in
- Leverage intelligent PDP recommendations
- Run a data-driven loyalty program
- Create personalized bestseller lists
- Integrate UGC across the funnel
- Use dynamic content
- Enhance product discovery
- Retarget in-session based on behavioral triggers
- Enhance AI chatbots with first-party data
- Time social retargeting with smart recommendations
- Automate personalized email and SMS
- Customize checkout
1. Incentivize customer sign-in
The days of simply offering 10% off for an email address are fading. Forward-thinking retailers are working on ways to encourage customers to identify themselves, to create a clearer value exchange.
Retailers are making signing in to a customer profile an obvious choice, rather than another barrier to engagement. When retailers build habits around logged-in experiences, customers can find all types of practical value, such as:
- Order management and tracking
- Easy returns processing
- Subscription management
- Collection reviews
- Referral program access
- Stored payment methods
- Saved carts for later purchasing
What makes this strategy particularly powerful is how it aligns with changing consumer expectations around privacy and data sharing.
Customers actively choose to identify themselves in exchange for genuine utility. It's the difference between a store clerk following you around versus having a personal shopping assistant you've specifically requested.
When customers log in to a storefront, they unlock a personalized discovery experience that goes far beyond basic product recommendations. They discover an ecosystem of product recommendations, saved carts, highlighted discounts or store credit, and more.
For brands, signed-in experiences also create a more reliable stream of first-party data that can be used to personalize across sessions and channels.
The key for retailers looking to implement this approach is starting with the customer's perspective.
- What daily frictions could be smoothed out by being signed in?
- Which self-serve capabilities would make their lives easier?
By focusing on solving real customer problems rather than just gathering data, retailers can build sign-in experiences that customers genuinely appreciate and actively seek out.
2. Leverage intelligent product-detail page recommendations
Product-detail page (PDP) recommendations show shoppers similar or complementary products to the ones they’re already interested in, based on an analysis of their browsing and purchase history and expressed preferences.
Cross-selling on PDPs makes it easier to recommend complementary items and encourage shoppers to increase their cart size. For example, you can recommend items higher in price but similar in style or brand. These recommendations become more accurate when browsing, purchase, and inventory data are available in one system.
3. Run a data-driven loyalty program
Loyalty programs have evolved from basic points systems into data-driven programs that reward customers in meaningful ways. They also create a valuable source of first-party data you can use for further personalization efforts across your sales channels. Because loyalty programs connect purchase history and engagement data, they often become one of the richest sources of personalization data.
Consider how a luxury beauty retailer might use loyalty program data to personalize the experience of a hypothetical customer we’ll call Amy. The retailer can see:
- Amy has been a loyalty member since 2024.
- She buys skincare products every three months, typically spending $75–$100.
- She purchases during seasonal sales.
Amy has accumulated points steadily but only redeems them for full-size products, never samples. She engages with emails about skincare launches but rarely clicks on makeup promotions.
With this behavioral data, the retailer can tailor their approach to Amy specifically in multiple ways:
- Restock reminders: Send Amy a reminder about her skincare products right before the end of her usual three-month purchasing window.
- Personalized promotions: Showcase new skincare products within her budget and offer early access to seasonal sales, especially for anti-aging products that interest her.
- Strategic offers: Since Amy tends to redeem points for full-size products, similar members can be nudged toward this behavior, which has shown to increase lifetime value.
But the real power comes from identifying patterns across your loyalty-member base. When you notice that customers who redeem points for full-size products (like Amy) tend to have 30% higher lifetime value than those who choose samples, you can adjust your loyalty program strategy accordingly. You might create special full-size product redemption offers for members who typically choose samples, nudging them toward more valuable behavior patterns.
Combining customer segmentation with loyalty data allows enterprises to create hypertargeted marketing campaigns—but the key is to make it feel natural. Loyalty programs provide the data to make this possible at scale, while giving customers a clear value exchange for sharing their preferences.
4. Create personalized bestseller lists to drive click-throughs
People are drawn to popular products—think of the influence of the New York Times bestseller list.
You can get creative with this approach for your ecommerce website: highlight your bestsellers over a designated period of time. Or, instead of ranking products by sales, try displaying the most reviewed, or segment by geographic location. These lists can also be personalized using location or browsing behavior to make them more relevant to each shopper.
Showing bestsellers by location can be powerful if you sell fashion in multiple climates or if your online store specializes in sports team gear. Your customers in Los Angeles probably aren’t shopping for the same clothing during winter as shoppers in New York City. Dig into your analytics to find what works best for your unique products and customers.
5. Integrate user-generated content across your funnel
User-generated content (UGC) can add another layer to your site. When you post photos, videos, and reviews from customers, visitors get the chance to see your product in real life. UGC becomes even more effective when it can be matched to customer interests and behavior.
Consumers are receptive to making peer-based decisions. Per BazaarVoice’s Shopper Preference report, customers trust content that includes real-life photos and voices and balanced feedback. Almost half are wary of overly positive or generic reviews.
But most businesses stop short of integrating UGC throughout their onsite funnel, limiting its use to ratings on product pages or shares on social media.
Shoe company SeaVees, on the other hand, makes UGC collected from Instagram prominent on their homepage and PDPs by linking directly to a curated collection of shoppable posts, many of which are submitted by customers through SeaVees-branded hashtags:
6. Use dynamic content
Dynamic content changes based on user behavior, location, or demographic data. For example, a first-time visitor might see an introductory discount banner, while a returning customer is shown a product recommendation based on a recent purchase. This allows brands to tailor the experience in real time using first-party data signals.
Shopify’s platform makes it easy to collect the data for this type of personalized web content. Because customer, product, and order data live in one platform, brands can capture signals like:
- Behavioral data: User interactions, browsing patterns, and purchase history
- Contextual data: Time of day, location, device type, and referral source
- Historical data: Past purchases, cart abandonments, and customer service interactions
- Demographic data: Age, gender, and other relevant customer attributes
To start implementing dynamic content, identify your highest-impact personalization opportunities. Focus first on basic segmentation like new versus returning visitors or location-based offers, then gradually expand to more sophisticated behavioral targeting. Monitor your analytics closely to measure engagement and conversion improvements.
Tip: With Shopify's built-in ecommerce personalization tools and data collection features, you can quickly test different strategies and scale what works best for your specific customer base.
7. Enhance product discovery
Retailers often build their storefronts around two distinct types of value: pre-purchase discovery (like personalized collection reviews and wishlist management) and post-purchase engagement (such as order management and simplified reordering).
The power lies in how these personalized storefronts use their unified customer data model to create what feels like an intuitive shopping experience.
For example, when a logged-in customer returns to your store, they don't just see generic category pages: The product collections they see, the recommendations they receive, and even the way products are presented are all subtly tailored to their demonstrated interests and behaviors.
Personalize site search and merchandising
Personalized search uses intent signals and historical data to re-rank results in real time. There are various ways to do this:
- Predictive autocomplete: The search bar suggests products, categories, or even past purchases that align with their specific profile, significantly reducing the time to cart.
- Affinity-based ranking: This uses transaction and browsing data to understand what a customer is most likely to buy. For example, if a website visitor who usually buys leather clothing searches for "jacket," they’ll see leather jackets at the top of the search results (despite not including this exact term in their original search).
- Query intent and natural language processing (NLP): This moves beyond simple keywords to understand the bigger picture of what a user is looking for. For example, if a user searches for "summer wedding," the engine understands they need formal wear in breathable fabrics, not just any item with the word "summer" in the metadata.
Shopify’s Search and Discovery app allows you to customize how customers discover your products. You can create custom filters for search and collection pages, activate semantic search, and recommend related products on product detail pages. Because search runs on the same data as the storefront, results can reflect real-time behavior and inventory. This enhances the relevance of search results and helps customers find what they're looking for more easily.
8. Retarget in-session based on behavioral triggers
Offsite retargeting can be expensive. Thankfully, onsite interstitials are an alternative. The key is to be intuitive, not intrusive, with your popups. You can do this by timing or triggering popup offers to match each visitor’s in-session behavior. And because these triggers rely on first-party data, they can be more accurate than third-party retargeting.
Trigger popups through automation based on characteristics like:
- Number of sessions
- Shopping cart value
- Browsing behavior (both historical and real time)
It’s a good idea to offer first-time visitors exclusive discounts and promotions in exchange for their email addresses so you can market to them. Here’s an example from cosmetics brand Colourpop, who offer new visitors an interactive way to get a discount ranging from 5% to 15% off a purchase:
Another great popup option is to reengage returning visitors with reminders of what they’ve browsed (but never purchased) in order to drive them toward checkout. Then, once someone adds items to their cart, you can offer tiered discounts to drive up average order value (AOV).
9. Enhance AI-driven chatbots with first-party data
AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants are changing the customer journey. These tools provide instant, personalized support and recommendations based on individual customer profiles.
When integrated with a unified customer data model, these AI and machine learning solutions can leverage a wealth of first-party data to make each interaction more precise and relevant. This makes experiences feel more connected instead of fragmented.
For example, with Shop’s AI Assistant, customers can describe what they're looking for, and the AI assistant will provide contextual recommendations based on the customer’s preferences and the store's inventory.
It can also:
- Suggest complementary products based on past purchases
- Offer personalized answers to frequently asked questions
- Adapt responses based on the customer's shopping context
- Provide real-time order-tracking updates
Leveraging these tools lets brands provide 24/7 customer support while keeping each interaction personalized and relevant to the shopper’s needs.
10. Time social retargeting with smart recommendations
Even if a visitor leaves your site, there are ways to get their attention back through retargeting on social media. To make this approach successful, you need to choose your timing wisely.
The average value of a site visitor declines the longer they’ve been away from your site, so you can save a lot on ad spend by layering your retargeting as their value declines. You can also shorten your retargeting period to 7–14 days so you’re engaging customers when they’re most likely to convert.
It’s important to be mindful of how you’re approaching these shoppers, whether it’s with products relevant to their previous purchases or by reminding them of your unique selling proposition.
BOOM Beauty, for example, is a cosmetics company that sends personalized retargeting ads after customers add products to their online cart. Campaigns focus on social proof and how other customers love the item they’ve abandoned:
11. Automate three personalized email and SMS types
If an online shopper shares their email address or mobile number with you, your brand has another way to engage and convert them. By continuously engaging customers, you can reach out no matter where your customers are, which keeps your company top of mind. Because this messaging is based on first-party data, it can reflect real behavior rather than assumptions.
Here are three personalized messaging techniques to get their attention:
Abandoned cart messaging
Optimizing your checkout experience is a necessary step to reducing cart abandonment, but you’ll never eliminate it altogether. For example, many shoppers get distracted and leave ecommerce sites with items still in their carts. When this happens, you can remind them with an abandoned cart email.
Clothing company American Giant, for example, sends customers an email containing items they left in their cart to encourage them to come back and finish the purchase.
“We miss you” messaging
If a shopper forgets about their cart, you can nudge them with a kind email. Sports fan-gear seller Supporters Place, for example, sends emails to reengage visitors and announce new products to remind them of what they looked at in the past.
Order follow-up messaging
Checkout is not the end of your relationship with a customer. Check in with buyers after purchase and provide customized product recommendations based on their previous orders.
Here’s how baby and child sleepwear store ergoPouch does it:
12. Customize checkout
Retailers have traditionally seen checkout as the final step in a transaction. Today, checkout is becoming a surface for gathering data and building a picture of your customer.
We’re talking beyond customizing background colors and fonts. With Shopify, for example, you can:
- Add new functionality with checkout apps: Drag and drop apps into checkout to add features like delivery-date pickers, gift messages, or free gift offers. These apps automatically inherit brand settings and can be placed exactly where they’re needed in the checkout flow.
- Increase average order value with post-purchase apps: Post-purchase pages can be added between checkout and the thank you page to surface one-click upsells or loyalty programs.
- Add custom logic with apps: Custom rules for discounts, shipping, and payment methods can be implemented without coding through Shopify Functions. Brands can build entirely custom functions for unique business requirements.
- Track customer behavior: Businesses can add tracking pixels to monitor customer behavior and identify where shoppers abandon checkout. This can be done through prebuilt apps from the Shopify App Store or by adding custom pixels.
Plus, with Shopify, retailers can maintain their unique checkout optimizations, whether that's smart upsells, integrated loyalty programs, or specialized analytics—while still offering the speed and convenience of trusted payment solutions like Shop Pay, which boasts over 150 million users.
The implications extend far beyond the moment of purchase: Each customized checkout interaction builds a richer picture of your customer, feeding back into your first-party data foundation. This creates a cycle in which better data leads to more personalized experiences, which in turn lead to more valuable customer interactions.
How to measure personalization impact on your ecommerce website
As personalization becomes more sophisticated, measuring its impact becomes critical.
Metrics to track by tactic
To measure the true impact of website personalization, look beyond site-wide averages and track specific key performance indicators (KPIs) mapped to individual tactics. This allows you to identify exactly which tactics are paying off—and which aren’t.
| Website personalization tactic | Metrics to track |
|---|---|
| Personalized site search | Search exit rate Search add-to-cart rate Zero results rate |
| Personalized product recommendations | Product recommendation click-through rate (CTR) Revenue lift attributed to recommendations |
| Personalized homepage banner with a discount code for new and returning customers | New vs. returning visitor conversion rate Discount code usage |
| Personalized exit intent popup at checkout | Cart abandonment rate Cart recovery rate Discount code usage (if you’re using one to convince visitors to stick around) |
| Personalized replenishment emails | Time between purchases Customer retention rate Loyalty program participation |
A/B testing basics and iteration cadence
Without a rigorous A/B testing framework, you risk implementing website personalization that looks sophisticated but actually adds friction to the buying journey.
Start with a hypothesis—for example, “Showing ‘recently viewed’ items on the homepage for returning visitors will increase revenue per visitor (RPU).” Then use ecommerce conversion rate optimization (CRO) tools to divide this audience segment into a control group who see the original design and a variant group who see the new personalization widget.
Compare RPU for either segment to see whether your hypothesis is true:
- If it is, roll out similar personalization widgets to all site traffic.
- If it isn’t, try a new test. This doesn’t have to be an entirely new widget—you could change the positioning, headline, or call-to-action (CTA) buttons to see whether that influences RPU in the variant segment.
Effective personalization isn’t a “one-and-done” tactic; customer preferences change over time. Take a continuous improvement approach with weekly monitoring to spot underperforming personalization tactics, and monthly A/B tests. Once a quarter, do a strategic review and compare your strategy against CLV. Is your personalization strategy actually building loyalty or just chasing quick wins?
Tip: Be careful not to slice your audience so thin that your sample size becomes too small to reach significance with A/B testing. Start with broad segments before moving to hyper-niche groups.
Personalization guardrails: Privacy, relevance, and hyperpersonalization
Customers increasingly expect personalized experiences, but there are challenges to meeting those expectations. More personalization also means greater responsibility around privacy, relevance, and trust.
Set guardrails to meet expectations safely:
- Privacy: Only collect the data you actually need to improve the experience, and ensure that personalized data is encrypted to prevent internal teams from accessing personally identifiable information that isn't necessary for their role. A first-party data strategy can also reduce risk by relying less on opaque third-party data.
- Relevance: Every personalized touchpoint should actually add value to the customer. Use data to understand the context behind their shopping experience, and think about intent decay. Just because a user bought a crib six months ago, it doesn't mean they want to see cribs forever—perhaps they’re moving onto baby toys instead.
- Hyperpersonalization: Hyperpersonalization uses AI and real-time data to create an experience that feels unique to a single individual, rather than a broad segment. But going overboard can feel creepy. Avoid using personal data, such as their first name in website banners, until you’ve built a relationship with the customer and they trust you.
A practical checklist for compliant, customer-first personalization
Meet data compliance regulations (and avoid making personalization feel invasive) with this ecommerce personalization checklist:
- Gather explicit consent to collect sensitive data.
- Be transparent in how you collect, use, and store data.
- Make it easy for customers to opt out of personalization and data collection.
- Define sensitive categories that are off limits for personalization—for example, medical conditions or payment data.
- Set frequency caps on how many personalized nudges each visitor can receive to prevent customers from feeling uncomfortable.
Build an ecommerce personalization strategy today
It’s no secret ecommerce personalization has changed people’s expectations of retail brands. No longer can you get away with mass marketing, or offering generic experiences to your audience. As personalization expectations rise, brands need to deliver these experiences consistently across the entire customer journey. Every interaction needs to be memorable and bespoke in your ecommerce store.
With Shopify, you can build automated marketing campaigns that tag high-value customers, trigger personalized email marketing campaigns, and improve retargeting efforts. Because customer, product, and order data live in one platform, these experiences can be powered by first-party data and updated in real time. That way, you can create more relevant experiences and build stronger customer relationships.
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Ecommerce personalization FAQ
What are the 4 R’s of personalization?
- Relevance: Making sure that the content delivered to the user is relevant to their needs
- Recognition: Remembering user preferences and behaviors in order to deliver personalized content
- Responsiveness: Providing timely, relevant content that is tailored to the user’s needs
- Results: Measuring the effectiveness of personalization efforts and adjusting strategies to maximize user engagement
How important is personalization in ecommerce?
Personalization is important in ecommerce because consumers today expect personalized experiences across all digital touchpoints, from product recommendations to tailored content and offers. Personalization helps improve conversion rates, engagement, and revenue. It can help ecommerce businesses build customer loyalty, improve customer satisfaction, and stay competitive.
What is personalization and customization in ecommerce?
Personalization and customization in ecommerce refer to tailoring a user’s experience by delivering content based on their individual needs, interests, and preferences. This could include personalized recommendations for products, tailored ads, and custom content. It helps shoppers find relevant products faster and reduces friction in the buying journey.
Customization, on the other hand, allows customers to adjust a product or service to their own specific needs and preferences. Examples of customization include changing a product’s size, color, or function, or selecting from a range of options to create a unique product.
What are some ecommerce personalization examples?
- Targeted email campaigns: Sending emails to loyal customers based on their interests or purchase history
- Personalized product recommendations: Using customer data to make product recommendations that are for each customer
- Social media engagement: Engaging with new customers on social media and responding to their questions, comments, and feedback
- Customized content: Creating content that is tailored to individual customers and their interests
- Loyalty programs: Offering loyalty programs that reward customers for their buying habits and engagement
- Dynamic pricing: Adjusting prices based on customer behavior
How do you measure ecommerce personalization success?
Measure the success of your ecommerce personalization efforts with KPIs like:
- Conversion rate
- Repeat customer rate
- Revenue per visitor
- Customer lifetime value (CLV)
- Add-to-cart rate
- Cart abandonment rate
- Net Promoter Score (NPS)
- Product return rate
What data should you avoid using for personalization?
Avoid using sensitive data for personalization, such as health information, specific financial details, or any data acquired through non-transparent third-party scraping. You should also steer clear of outdated or inaccurate records that personalize the experience incorrectly, like promoting a "new customer" discount to a loyal shopper.
