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Shopper Lifestyle & Motivation Battery Survey

A psychographic battery that segments respondents by how they think and feel about shopping — browsing for fun vs. necessity, planning vs. impulse, price-driven vs. brand-loyal — paired with an AI follow-up that unpacks the story behind their most recent unplanned purchase. Built for retail, e-commerce, and CPG teams building shopper segments.

Sample questions

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12 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to share how you shop! There are no right or wrong answers here — we're just curious about your habits and attitudes. About 6-7 minutes.

Q02
MatrixRequired

How much do you agree or disagree with each statement about your own shopping habits?

7 rows × 5 columns
  • I enjoy browsing stores or websites even when I don't need anything
  • I actively compare prices before making a purchase
  • I stick with brands I already know and trust
  • Shopping is one of the ways I unwind or relax
  • I feel guilty or anxious after an unplanned purchase
  • +2 more
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired

Overall, where does shopping fall for you?

Scale: 010
Min:Purely a necessary choreMax:One of my favorite activities
Q04
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Which of these best describes where you do most of your shopping these days?

  • In physical stores
  • On retailer or brand websites
  • Through online marketplaces (e.g., Amazon)
  • Via social media or shoppable posts
  • Roughly an even mix of these
Q05
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last 30 days, how many purchases did you make that you hadn't planned beforehand?

  • None
  • 1-2
  • 3-5
  • 6 or more
Q06
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

When deciding what to buy, thinking about your purchases generally, please tell us which of these matters most and which matters least to you.

  • Low price
  • Product quality
  • Convenience or speed
  • Brand reputation
  • New or trendy products
  • Recommendations from friends or influencers
  • Sustainability or ethical practices
  • Customer service experience
Pick best & worst per setBest:Matters mostWorst:Matters least
Q07
Point AllocationRequired

Thinking about a typical month, how do you split your shopping spend across these channels? Please distribute 100 points to reflect the share of your spending in each.

  • Physical/in-store shopping
  • Retailer or brand websites
  • Online marketplaces
  • Social media or shoppable content
  • Mobile apps
Allocate 100 points
Q08
AI Interview

Probe the tension in this respondent's answers between how much they enjoy shopping (or find it a chore) and how often they buy on impulse. Ask them to walk through their most recent unplanned purchase — what triggered it, how they felt afterward, and whether it fits the pattern in their agree/disagree ratings. If they said shopping helps them relax, explore whether that clashes with any guilt they reported after impulse buys, and if they rated browsing-for-fun low, ask what actually gets them to shop when they don't strictly need something.

Q09
Multiple Choice

Which age range do you fall into?

  • Under 18
  • 18-24
  • 25-34
  • 35-44
  • 45-54
  • 55-64
  • 65+
Q10
Multiple Choice

How do you describe your gender?

  • Woman
  • Man
  • Non-binary
  • Prefer to self-describe
Q11
Multiple Choice

Which range best reflects your total household income?

  • Under $25,000
  • $25,000-$49,999
  • $50,000-$74,999
  • $75,000-$99,999
  • $100,000-$149,999
  • $150,000 or more
Q12
Message

That wraps things up — thank you for sharing how you shop! Your responses will be combined with others to build shopper profiles that guide how we design stores, sites, and offers.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Includes a matrix and max-diff battery to segment respondents on planning-vs-impulse, price-vs-brand, and browsing-for-fun-vs-necessity dimensions
  • Pairs the psychographic battery with an AI follow-up interview that probes the tension between stated shopping attitudes and the story behind a respondent's most recent unplanned purchase
  • Captures behavioral data (recent unplanned purchase frequency, spend split across categories via constant sum) alongside attitudinal scales, not just self-reported preferences
  • Opens and closes with clear chat messages framing the study and closing out the respondent experience, plus standard demographic classification questions for segment cross-tabs

QuestionPro

Shopping Life Style Battery Survey Template

This is a directly comparable static template covering shopping lifestyle and psychographic attitudes, built on QuestionPro's established survey platform. It appears to be a fielding-ready questionnaire rather than a report-generating research tool, so it likely stops at data collection. QuestionPro is a broad-purpose survey platform, so this template is one of many rather than a specialized shopper-motivation instrument.

What it does well

  • Established, mature survey platform with broad question-type support
  • Template is purpose-built around shopping lifestyle attitudes, aligning topically with retail/CPG research needs
  • Likely supports standard survey logic (skip/branching) common to QuestionPro's platform

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up interview to probe the reasoning behind a respondent's answers — appears to be a fixed, static question set
  • No indication of automated per-response quality scoring or an auto-generated narrative report
  • No transparent, published prompt/methodology since there's no AI-driven questioning involved

Ready to launch?

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