Shoppers are continuously facing a wide spectrum of choices instore for the alcoholic drinks category. The large variety of drink types, flavours, pack sizes, and price points, means that catching shopper attention and standing out at the shelf is becoming increasingly challenging.
In addition, grocery retail formats face competition from specialist retailers in the alcoholic drinks category. The expert product advice and recommendations that specialists provide is a key distinction that shoppers highly value, and that grocery retailers are, thus, increasingly looking to emulate.
Both brands and retailers need to constantly innovate in the execution in-store, creating excitement around the category to drive footfall, providing added value through education on product specifications, benefits, and usage ideas, and ensuring shoppers’ purchasing decisions are as easy and straightforward as possible. This approach will enable grocery retailers to better position themselves as experts in the category, and therefore, convert sales.
This report provides the latest innovations around category management for the alcoholic drinks category, with the aim to assist you in taking your category to the next level, thus driving footfall, engaging shoppers, enhancing shopping experience, and ultimately, increasing sales and shopper loyalty.
This report is the result of extensive in-store analysis derived from a mix of both developed and emerging markets, as well as from a variety of store formats, both big and small box retailing.
In-store analysis focuses on six key topics in order to identify global best practices for the alcoholic drinks category: aisle innovations, displays, cross merchandising, promotions, checkout, and private label vs. brands.
Scope of this Report
This report provides the latest innovations around category management for the alcoholic drinks category, with the aim to assist you in taking your category to the next level, thus driving footfall, engaging shoppers, enhancing shopping experience, and ultimately, increasing sales and shopper loyalty.
This report develops six key topics for the alcoholic drinks category: aisle innovations, displays, cross merchandising, promotions, checkout, and private label vs. brands.
This report covers various retail markets and store formats, including hypermarkets,
supermarkets, general merchandisers, and convenience stores.
Key Benefits – Reasons to Buy
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of innovations in category management for the
alcoholic drinks category.
• Obtain insights into what leading retailers and brands are implementing in-store, and identify how your competitors are winning in the category.
• Understand the differences and similarities in innovations across a variety of store formats.
• Obtain actionable recommendations on how to win in the alcoholic drinks category.
• Gain inspiration via best practices from the top retailers and brands around the world, and formulate more effective marketing/go-to-market strategies and category plans.
• Direct your category investment and optimise resources for the best ROI, by understanding best in class execution and the role of private label within the category.
• Foster truly collaborative retailer-supplier strategic relationships, by focusing on elevating overall category with innovative in-store execution.
• Save extensive hours of research and store visit time. Access relevant insights in a highly visual and straight to the point report, with slides that you can easily use in your own internal presentations and reports.
