Why is Excellent In-Store Execution So Elusive?
Whether you are in marketing or sales, poor in-store execution is a problem of nightmare proportions: all of the planning, the late nights, the negotiations, the blood sweat, tears and dollars that go into making a brilliant piece of work come to this: did it actually happen in the store in the way it was supposed to?Read More
70% of chatbots will be retail based says study
Businesses can expect to save $11.5 billion by 2023 by replacing customer service representatives with chatbots says Juniper Research. Learn more about these bots here. This will increase from $48.3 …Read More
Prioritize your channels. You can’t be everywhere!
If you looked at channel prioritization in the traditional sense, you would never put money anywhere other than Walmart – because let’s be honest – Walmart has so… Many… Shoppers! …Read More
Disney Display and Poor Execution
A recent survey conducted by TradeInsight suggested that 31 percent of consumer packaged goods manufacturers cite trade compliance as a major issue in their business. It’s an issue that has far-reaching implications.Read More
Why Invest in Retailers?
Why do we invest in retailers? This simple question is often asked by naïve consumer marketers as they see their advertising budgets whittled away by the “profligate guys” on the sales team. And retailers have a clear, simple answer to this—retailers own the shopper. With so much being spent, surely brand owners should aspire to more: aspire to make some return on all this expenditure.Read More
Four Shopper Outcomes
How does a shopper react to a product not being available? Her actions can be categorized into three key possibilities: either she will defer the purchase of that object until another shopping trip, she will buy something else, or she will buy nothing at all and continue with the rest of the shop. Read More







