Dairy is a versatile department. Categories that sit side by side play very different roles for shoppers and for retailers. By comparing categories, we better inform our category management strategies. Using the latest shopper insights from Shopper Intelligence UK's recent survey (June-August 2020) here we shall focus on two categories within Dairy: Yoghurts vs.
Home Baking - a new trend with need for innovation After the sudden rise of cooking at home resulting from the initial lockdown measures, consumers are returning to old habits and we see this trend returning to pre-lockdown levels. However, the opportunity still exists for brands and retailers to retain trialists of the home
If you read the marketing tomes coming from the likes of Nielsen, IRI, Kantar, 84.51, Dunnhumby etc, you would imagine that historic sales patterns can answer pretty much any category or retail strategy requirement. There are many providers of sales analytics. An entire Industry. An Industry with a common dominant assumption, an assumption that
Benchmarking is much more than just comparing your own performance to your competitors. In market research it is used in a variety of creative ways, in different study types. We all know the classical situation. When you look at your Net Promoter Score of let’s say 58% – and you ask: should I be
I hear more and more often about the need for shopper marketers and category managers to think about shopping missions as the underlying construct for their plans. I totally agree. Brand managers think “consumer needs” to build their thinking. Shopping mission is a kind of the shopping equivalent. Of course, at the macro level,
Bear Grylls. The Island. Seen it? A bunch of ordinary people dropped onto a desert island with nothing but a day of water and a few machetes. Task 1: Start a fire. Without fire, they can't boil the water they find. So, they'll soon die of thirst. How to start a fire? No matches, nothing.
AI is going to change our lives – it’s going to remove so much of the mundane analysis. What’s more, it’s going to be able to predict things that previously we’d have had to figure out for ourselves. Wonderful stuff, machine learning. But don’t be fooled. There is one question AI will never answer. It
I am generally loath to dumb down anything into oversimplified bullet points, but I am going to make an exception today because I think this matter is so important but so ignored - it needs a little bit of extra focus! Most shopper insights are driven by suppliers seeking to "influence" retailers. We all know
It’s a fascinating and familiar conundrum. Despite there being literally thousands of products in a supermarket that we never buy and are never likely to buy, we somehow manage to get in and out, buy our regular shopping, and complete the task in a relatively short time. Undistracted by everything we don’t need. I know
The world is full of AI conferences, AI suppliers, AI blogs, books, consultants. AI everywhere. Makes me feel we are missing out. That our business may be falling behind, maybe even facing extinction, our business is about making sense of data and getting answers to help better business decisions. At face value, we should be
