Today’s shoppers are given access to innumerable choices. Most buying decisions are made as they stand in front of store shelves. Therefore, merchandising has become an essential driver for increasing brand sales.
There are many opportunities to satisfy shoppers’ requirements, drive market growth, and increase your sales. You can develop new merchandising recommendations, adapt the shelf layout to the growing offer, look for growth opportunities beyond the original shelf with cross-merchandising, enhance the shopper’s experience etc.
An in-store merchandising test with MarketingScan gives you the required guarantees to reassure retailers. We understand that they expect to receive solid evidence of real sales impact of the merits of following your recommendations and before agreeing to a wider roll-out.
Two in-store testing solutions with the same merchandising expertise
With the rich experience of over such 400 tests to date (planogram, in-store material, signposting, furniture, secondary placement, etc), we provide you with two options:
1. A ready-to-use merchandising test:
We manage the negotiation, listing and follow-up, and we perform an impact analysis for your new layout on sales. The performance of the tested option in test stores across the various retail chains in our areas, is compared to a group of control stores.
2. A merchandising test in Système U retail chain:
Are you interested in working with this retailer on new recommendations? We can help you with the setting up of paired test and control store groups and perform the impact analysis. We can also assist you to share the results with the retailer.
Use powerful arguments to convince retailers
- Incremental turnover for category, segments and brands
- Explanatory shopper dynamics (traffic, basket spend, purchase frequency, size of basket, crossover purchases, profiles, etc.)
- Aisle managers’ opinions
- Shoppers’ perceptions
Option to identify sales for each in-store location for cross-merchandising tests.
Barilla
We wished to test a new Merchandising approach that was really strategic for us, as we needed to measure precisely the impact on volumes and revenue of this new shelf organization. We have chosen MarketingScan to test this new approach because we both needed to test it in real conditions and have a turnkey solution…
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Lactalis
Collaborating with MarketingScan during the implementation of our new "Quatuor" merchandizing approach in the self-service Cheese category allowed us to measure the impact and to validate the relevance of our views. The study results supported our application dossier for the firmly established 2010 French industry and business award organized by the French Merchandising Institute (IFM)…
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Procter & Gamble
The study conducted with MarketingScan showed that our merchandising approach has generated an increase of the turnover and has activated the traffic on the product category. This analysis based on the own retailer stores and the support of CZ consultants throughout the study enabled us to make the difference and we finally managed to convince…
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Mondelez International
I conducted a test in real-life situation within test areas and I gladly recommend MarketingScan. I was quite satisfied with the implementation of this test. Several main differentiating benefits : ● The stores from their test areas are "protected", particularly from our competitors' operations, and are made sensitive to tests. This is all the more…
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Mondelez International
This study on product associations within the shopping cart gives us food for thought regarding merchandizing, helps us make decisions regarding floor-space use and promotions. Regarding promotions in particular, this helps us strengthen our speech during the high points and to be proactive with distributors. Catman Manager for Breakfast/PSA
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