Tag: incremental sales

Case study: leading coffee brand sales impact with NCS

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Background

A leading coffee brand approached Shopkick to increase awareness of its 2016 holiday seasonal flavors and drive sales of two packaged products in grocery and mass stores nationwide. To reach consumers in the planning phase, the brand wished to leverage video content to build consideration and increase brand equity. In-store, the goal was to drive engagement at the crowded coffee shelf and incentivize consumers to pick up the products. The team wanted to understand conversion and capture consumer insights throughout the purchase journey. Finally, the brand was looking to preserve margin by incentivizing traffic, engagement and sales through rewards and not coupons or discounts.

Shopkick Solution

Shopkick first built pre-shop consideration with video and editorial content to drive awareness of product assortment. Shopkick then drove traffic, in-store product engagement, and purchase conversion by motivating engagement with ‘Kicks’, or rewards. 

Results

Sales impact was measured by Nielsen Catalina Solutions. The overall campaign showed positive results across all key metrics including incremental dollar sales, buy rate, purchase frequency, and share shift.

    • 66 million impressions
    • 8% total incremental sales lift
    • 42% of total incremental sales were from NEW buyers
    • 66% of K-Cup sales were NEW buyers
    • 1.07% total share shift

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Online to offline attribution with Visa

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Consumers seamlessly traverse channels throughout the shopping journey, demanding highly personalized, mobile-enabled, and frictionless shopping experiences. In delivering these omnichannel experiences, retailers can struggle to attribute the impact of digital marketing on physical shopping experiences.

In 2016, Deloitte reported that digital’s influence on in-store sales surpassed 50%, influencing 56% of all in-store retail sales.  Yet understanding this influence on a shopper-level is still a challenge for most retailers.  In fact, 67% of retail executives said their greatest obstacle in offering an omnichannel experience is tracking customer analytics across channels.

Despite roughly 90% of retail transactions still happening in stores, stores lack the real-time data and attribution that retailers are accustomed to online. Beyond just verifying store visits, retailers want to know what customers did inside their stores. Key metrics include product engagement, dwell time in-store, purchase conversion, and whether or not the sale was incremental.

Shopkick’s partnership with Visa Decision Sciences connects the dots across the entire in-store data funnel to enable true online to offline attribution analysis.  Visa measures incremental sales impact through a  “twinning” methodology whereby a control group of unenrolled accounts is created from the Visa cardholder base to match spend behavior of the enrolled Shopkick population.

Shopkick Visa Data Partnership

Analysis from January 2017 shows significant and sustained incremental sales across Shopkick’s merchant partners — sales that would not have happened without Shopkick. On average, 57% of overall sales driven by Shopkick were incremental. Of that 57%, 73% of incremental sales was driven by new customer acquisition, and 23% was driven by increased spend of existing customers.

This ability to measure not just store visits, but also sales and incrementality will unlock the potential of omnichannel marketing, and drive growth for brick & mortar retail.