Consumer, Shopper, Retail Expert
Consumer, Shopper, Retail Expert
Around four years ago I visited a Tesco store in Warrington in the UK, and used it as the basis of a rather scathing blog on the state of Tesco, some of their biggest suppliers, and the state of shopper marketing. The store was bleak, horrible to shop, and devoid of any marketing creativity. Since …
The industry spends a huge amount of money trying to influence shoppers. Unfortunately, much of that is spent on discounts. Nowhere is this more true than in Turkey. I visited Istanbul for the launch of engage Turkey & Middle East recently. Shop after shop, the first thing that I saw as a shopper was a …
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more competitive in the grocery market, Amazon launches Amazon Fresh in the UK. Yes, it’s only in London, but its 130,000 products, next day delivery, and a competitor that seems hell-bent on getting a chunk of the market at any price. So Amazon Fresh is here: what can brands …
The internet and conference presentations are full of shopper data soundbites. Apparently shopper behavior can be wrapped up in simple soundbites and generic shopper data such as “24% of shoppers use their mobile when shopping”. Yet in my experience understanding shoppers, and then using that understanding to influence shopping behavior is far from simple. Doing …
A while ago I wrote a post endorsing Unilever’s move to a zero-based budgeting approach for its marketing spend. It was one of my best-ever read posts (who would have thought that budgeting was such a hot topic!) I argued that Unilever’s move would bring a much more responsive approach to their spend and challenge …
In case you hadn’t noticed, things are changing in the world of retail. And not just by a little. They are changing a lot! And at its heart is a revolution in the way shoppers are shopping. If ever there was a rationale for the existence of shopper marketing, this is it, or rather, now …
Shopper marketing has barely established itself in the marketing lexicon and in the halls of consumer goods companies, and yet it seems to be facing a new existential challenge. In this age of digital marketing, the worlds of the consumer and the shopper seem to blur: I can be a consumer one moment and a …
I’m often asked why we need shopper marketing (thankfully less now than before). There are many possible answers – but here is one: Shopper marketing exists because shoppers and consumers have fundamentally different relationships with brands. Consumer marketers spend an enormous amount of energy creating (or at least attempting to create) ‘brand-love’. But brand relationships …
Winning with shoppers is key to consumer goods success: I think we can all agree on that. And on the surface, shopper marketing looks pretty straight forward. Stick some activity in a store and a shopper responds… Simple eh? Alas not. Shopper marketing is fiendishly complicated. Deep understanding of shopper behavior is key to shopper …
My last post argued that often (though not always the case) the role of shopper marketing is to disrupt shopper behavior. This is critical to shopper marketing success: if the shopper doesn’t behave differently, it is unlikely that our results will change. Most marketers I know are looking for growth: and growth means that some …