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The grocer’s philosophy when it comes to building loyalty is to encourage one more shopping trip or one more product purchase. Retailers and grocers use loyalty programmes to collect data from previous purchases, which is used to personalise offers for relevant products and drive footfall back to store. Whilst this technique has its successes, it’s difficult relying on the past to predict the future. It’s important to evolve beyond predicting, and actually engage with consumers, offering something truly compelling to change shopper behaviour. The best way to encourage engagement is through the smartphone. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated search engines, we can easily search for any product and instantly receive directions to the nearest store. However, once inside the store entrance, all mobile enablement ends and the consumer must either hunt for their product themselves or ask a customer advisor for help. Continue reading Tim’s article in The Grocer here, where he anticipates future scenarios of voice technology and smartphone enablement entering the food and beverage markets, allowing retailers to engage with customer’s movements, rather than simply predict them.
The results are in for Black Friday and it’s not good - even with potentially large price discounts, consumers still didn’t respond well, with like-for-like sales down 0.5% last month and footfall dropping 5.5% post Black Friday – almost double the decline of the previous year. Lessons from 2017 also proved that cutting prices simply cut margins and profitability, without increasing customer demand.
To achieve lasting, in-depth customer loyalty, retailers must develop keen insights into their customers, understand their behaviors and preferences, and deliver valuable, relevant offers and communications to customers based on those insights. To do that, they need connected customer data.