There are two main user groups. Leadership leverages our data to allocate priority on their top-down initiatives across categories. It allows you to use the most appropriate categories to deliver the right lever to drive store success.
Senior management will value having strong objective shopper KPIs against competitors across the entire market (down the category level).
Secondly the Merchandising/Buying teams use SI to decide how best to orient category tactics to shopper needs.
There is also a key value in your vendors being able to add more insight to discussions from having access to higher quality insights about your shoppers. This is particularly true in historically ‘insight deficient’ categories like Fresh.