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Growth Channels & The Impact On Checkout Categories. November 2012. Bryan.roberts@kantarretail.com Twitter: BryanRoberts72 www.kantarretailiq.eu. Shoppers Driving Discounter & Online Growth. Discounters and online to drive growth. €1,951. €1,548. €1,357.
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Growth Channels & The Impact On Checkout Categories November 2012 Bryan.roberts@kantarretail.com Twitter: BryanRoberts72 www.kantarretailiq.eu
Shoppers Driving Discounter & Online Growth Discounters and online to drive growth €1,951 €1,548 €1,357 *Chains: Data represents the over 500 European retail chains that Kantar Retail tracks and forecasts, generally these are chains with annual turnover exceeding EUR 1 billion Source: KantarRetailIQ.eu
The Impact of ‘Where’ Within global grocery, smaller stores are winning
Big Boxes Not a Great Deal of Fun in Mature Markets Source: Carrefour
Reasons for the Big Box Decline • Non-food lines available through price-competitive online channels • Better service-led offer from specialist retailers • Some categories (music, DVD, gaming) are transitioning to non-physical delivery/consumption • Economic pressures are impacting discretionary spending/non-food demand • Shoppers are less willing to devote time travelling to out-of-town stores or navigating a 10,000 square metre store
Reasons for the Big Box Decline • Rising numbers of grocery trips are transitioning to online/Drive • Aging populations less amenable to big box experience • Petrol prices making out-of-town travel more expensive • Decline in meal planning/large basket trips • Reluctance from shoppers to invest in household inventory
Other Checkout Trends are Equally Dispiriting • 64% of self-checkout grocery shoppers said retailers who offer self-checkout options provide better customer service • 78% of self-checkout users prefer them because they are faster • Certain impulse items can be found in 5% of baskets processed through regular checkouts, but in only 2% of self-checkout baskets Source: NCR; Kantar Retail
The Lure of Proximity – the Shopper • Urbanization • Longer working hours – little & often trips • Rising petrol prices • Growth in out-of-home food & drink • Decline in home meal planning • Decline in pantry/trolley shopping • e.g. average of nine grocery shopping trips per household per week in the UK
Rapid Discount Growth Creates Issues Some Signs of Progress … • Fewer checkouts than supers & hypermarkets • Skew towards PL at checkout • Historically poor at impulse / checkout shopper marketing • Aldi has installed branded confectionery / gum
Explosive Growth of Online is a Worry • Shopper marketing less advanced online • Lack of impulse / adjacency • Compete: 32% of shoppers prefer online, as it removes temptation • Few retailers successfully recommend linked items • Trip disruption! • Example: Ocado theoretically removes six million shopping trips per year from the UK market
Some Positives Though • Non-food click & collect will drive traffic • Smaller stores increasingly part of the multichannel solution • Pick-up points often at impulse-heavy check-outs • 70% of pick-up shoppers make in-store purchase • Increasing use of pick-up lockers by the likes of Amazon • Likely to drive footfall into impulse-rich c-stores, CTNs & drugstores
Now What? • Acknowledge that hypermarket traffic will be stagnant or declining in many markets: perhaps consider devoting more shopper marketing resource to other channels • Develop counter-top merchandising solutions for smaller stores • Improve abilities to develop FSDUs for use in proximity stores • Clip-strips—when executed correctly—are excellent for creating impulse in the small store environment
Now What? • Create merchandising solutions for queuing areas for both regular and self-checkouts • Implement an impulse strategy for the discount channel—FSDUs and checkout displays are options here • Collaborate with retailers to create impulse/adjacency in the online environment • Development of merchandising solutions for Click & Collect pick-up points?
Now What? • Monitor the implementation of Amazon Lockers – will there be greater impulse opportunities at Amazon’s retailer partners? • Consider on-screen impulse merchandising for self-checkouts • Work with retailers and/or self-checkout vendors to develop merchandising solutions for self-checkout units • Create smartphone marketing strategies to anticipate the adoption of smartphone self-scanning by more retailers/shoppers