Monthly Archives: December 2008

Shopper Marketing Strategy: Second Life

An an article in Portfolio Magazine reported that, “as far as consumer research goes, online advertising is considered more effective than other forms of marketing because shopper activity can be tracked.” Unfortunately, the in-store marketing metric system proposed by Nielsen’s PRISM program is still in its infancy stage. We expect that once PRISM goes national, we’ll [...]

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Nielsen’s 2009 Retail Industry Outlook: The Sky is Not Falling

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Atlanta Retail Design Institute holiday party. Throughout the mixer I was able to share some interesting dialogue with other retail professionals about the state of the industry. Then this morning I read Nielsen’s 2009 Industry Outlook and it appears that we’re all coming to some of [...]

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In-Store Marketing Primer

There’s a great post on Adnanpocketwala’s Weblog this week about in-store marketing. His discussion covers the very basics of in-store marketing. If you’re new to the idea and want to start getting an understanding of what it’s all about, check out this post.
There are great pictures of some commonly used in-store marketing techniques. However, as we see [...]

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Shoppers Are Not on a Need-to-Know Basis

It seems the Internet makes it possible to know everything you ever wanted to know and harder for companies to hide things they don’t want you to know. So with that in mind, isn’t it time to just let it all hang out?
Trendwatching.com just released, “Half a Dozen Consumer Trends for 2009.” Number 3 on the list [...]

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Putting More Convenience in the C-store Experience

Most grocery stores now have a self checkout lane. Shoppers who want to buy one or two things and be on there way can get in and out without getting stuck looking longingly at the lady with two carts full of monthly groceries, hoping she’ll let you go in front with your ice cream and [...]

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