Category Archives: Part 3: Targeting Customers and Gathering Information

This sub-category encompasses identifying and understanding consumers, and information gathering and processing in retailing.

Cross-Channel Retailing: A Special Report

Click the image below to access a new report on the multiple touchpoints involved with retailing today. This is a topic about which one can never learn enough! As the report notes: “The terms multi-channel, cross-channel, and omni-channel are used … Continue reading

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Globally, How Important Is Price in Grocery Purchases?

Nielsen recently conducted a major study of consumer grocery shopping behavior and attitudes in 56 countries around the world. The Nielsen online survey provides “insights into how 16 various factors have impacted grocery purchases in the last year. Manufacturers and … Continue reading

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E-Scores: A New Way of Mapping (Secretly) Consumers’ Buying Traits

Depending on your perspective — as a retail business or as a shopper — there is good/bad news about the latest technological advances being used to track shopping behavior. There is now an incredible amount of in-depth information being gathered (unbeknownst to … Continue reading

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