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Home » Industry News » POI Pulse: October 13, 2014

POI Pulse: October 13, 2014

POI Pulse October 13, 2014 PUBLISHED BY PROMOTION OPTIMIZATION INSTITUTE

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Trends & Developments 

PepsiCo’s Three Keys for Growth
Source: (FoodBus News Oct 10, 14)
First, the company is leveraging its complementary product portfolio by pairing food and beverage brands in promotional activities. Beverage innovation also has led to improved sales, net price utilization and market share performance for PepsiCo in the United States. Learn more

 

Canadian Tire Plans its New Digital Strategy
Source: (The Globe and Mail Oct. 9, 2014)
Michael Medline’s vision for Canadian Tire: Targeted digital messages that alert customers to deals on winter boots and shovels every time it snows. The advertisements would automatically prompt customers to go online or to a local store for a discount on seasonal goods. But to do this, Canadian Tire needs a system that “knows it’s snowing” and can tag merchandise as being snow-related and hook it up with data from a weather network. Learn more.

 

The Amazon Store: to Sell the Fire Phone?
Source: (Businessweek Oct. 9, 2014)
Why is Amazon following Apple and Microsoft into physical retail? The most basic answer is that most shopping happens in stores. E-commerce will account for only 6.5 percent of $4.73 trillion in total retail sales in the U.S. this year, according to EMarketer. That percentage is bound to rise, but there are limits. Some kinds of commerce work best in person. Learn more

 

View the Complete Agenda – Close to Capacity!

Your opportunity is now to learn, network, and advance at the POI Fall Summit is November 2-4 The agenda is once again advanced (view the updated agenda here), and make your plans now to attend, as the host hotel is nearly sold out!

More than 250 CPG Manufacturers and Retailers will join us –
Teams Taking advantage of early registration include:

Beech-Nut, Campari America, Pilgrims, Post Foods, JBSS, Pacific Foods, DPSG, Prestige Brands, Yucutan Foods,, Daisy Brands, Nestle USA, Delhaize America, Borden, Popcorn Indiana, AAFES, Mcilhenney, Farmer John, Pharmavite, LEGO, Hain Celestial Group, Johnsonville Sausage, Nestle Waters, Wells Enterprises, Kraft Foods, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Alcon, Starbucks, Pinnacle Foods, Stubbs BBQ, Johnson & Johnson, Utz Quality Foods, Kraft, ACH Foods, Pictsweet, Hormel, Clorox, Tyson, Lowes Foods, Unilever, Turkey Hill, Post Foods, 3M, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, Philips Consumer, Dannon, 7-Eleven, JM Smucker, Church & Dwight, Busch Bros., Topco, Keurig Green Mountain, Continental Mills, P&G, Ventura Foods, Michael Angelos, Hillshire Brands, Campbell Soup, Kroger, Jarden, Tree Top, Hormel, Musco Family Olive, ConAgra, Windsor Foods, Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, Del Monte, Rich Products, Whole Foods Markets, Mckee Foods, Bi Lo Holdings, Norseland, Reynolds Consumer Brands, and others.

 

Shoppers Have ‘lost trust’ in Pricing -Morrisons Chairman
Source: (The Telegraph, Oct. 7, 2014)
Andy Higginson of Morrisons, said the leading supermarkets had opened the door to Aldi and Lidl by “talking to each other, not their customers” in their marketing. Sainsbury’s has pledged to invest in consistently lower prices rather than promotions, while Morrisons is introducing a new loyalty card that will price-match Aldi and Lidl for the first time. Learn more

 

Accenture Predicts Holiday Cheer for Retailers – Study
Source: (DSN October 10, 2014)
As many as 71% of respondents are using, would use or are willing to try out a mobile tool that scans products as they’re placed in a shopping cart and keeps a running tab. Additionally, 76% would definitely use or try mobile services that provide them with real-time promotions and offers as they shopped in-store, if those services were offered. Learn more

This past week, The Promotion Optimization Institute POI with TABS Group, and Progressive Grocer over 175 attendees at our Webinar learned why Shoppers increased their search for deals across multiple retailers, but the lack of quality deals in the consumables sector contributed to weakness in sales. Among specific deal tactics, participation increased only in rebates and comparison shopping.Shoppers cited many of the deals as being not worth the effort and/or time.In addition, the only type of outlet that had a big increase in consumable purchases was dollar stores—up 23%. The survey found a shift of consumables shopping to smaller format channels also including drug stores and C-stores. The lack of the everyday low price deal has been inhibiting consumables sales at grocery stores.If you missed it, you’ll have an opportunity to download the recording, and complete results.If you cannot wait, write me at mkantor@p-o-i.org for a copy/link to the recorded webinar. Your next three opportunities will not be recorded. Celebrate Columbus Day now, and choose to discover bold new ways to achieve your price/promotion optimization goals, and register now for the POI Fall Summit! The advanced agenda is complete with presentations on TPM, TPO, Digital Transformation,Offer Innovation, and Global Execution. Detailed successes presented by Dannon, Energizer, PepsiCo, Food Lion, Nestle Waters, 7-Eleven, Gartner, Tyson, AAFES, and more will provide necessary takeaways for the 250 in attendance. 

The Summit is near capacity, and should not be missed. As a reader of this column, you’ve watched us build this Summit to meet your needs for existing projects, and to foster an environment that promotes next steps towards collaborative growth. Register now!

 

The second opportunity to learn the skills necessary to collaborate, enrollment is open for the next orientation (December 3-4, 2015) for the POI Certified Collaborative Marketer (CCM)™, taking place at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. View details, and enroll before 11/21/14 to join manufacturers and retailers getting certified in Collaborative Marketing.Finally, I look forward to seeing partners and colleagues tomorrow 10/14/14 at Saint Joseph’s University for the Food Industry Summit.

 

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Michael Kantor
CEO & Founder
Promotion Optimization Institute, LLC
mkantor@p-o-i.org

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