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A Guide To Winning In Store In 2021
Although the long-tail impact of economic slowdown will continue into 2021, the success of the FMCG industry depends on how retailers and manufacturers address evolving behavior and shifts in the retail landscape by leveraging best-selling locations and e-commerce, assortment and promotions.
Christmas ads 2020: how might spend change this year?
The traditional advertising landscape experienced a huge shift in 2020, and with the market still unsettled, we expect some atypical spending patterns among advertisers during the critical Christmas period.
Billions in Consumer Spending are Shifting as COVID-19 Forces Widespread Retail Disruption
Some of the highest revenue-generating grocery stores in the world are facing sweeping changes to their customer bases and their ability to deliver value to brands as people change where they shop—a change that, for some, may be permanent.
Store Shifting: Unlocking Insight With Data Science
Convinced that huge levels of COVID-driven FMCG growth in many countries were masking a larger, fundamental change, a team of Nielsen data scientists dug into the data to understand the nuances underneath the broader retail data. And they were right.
China’s Shifting Retail Landscape Signals the Permanence of Change Post-COVID-19
Pandemic-led shifts to further online adoption and an increased focus on neighborhood and small-format stores have become an ongoing normal in China's rebound from COVID-19.
Recalibrating for Diminished Growth: Resolutions for 2021
Year-over-year CPG sales continue to track above pre-COVID-19 conditions, but the huge sales spikes we saw in the spring are unlikely to be repeated in 2021. Here’s what retailers and manufacturers need to be mindful of for the year ahead.
The World’s Most Successful Grocery Stores (Literally) Aren’t What They Used to Be
The stores we shopped in yesterday are not the stores we are shopping in today, and unlikely to be those we shop in tomorrow. There is no longer a need to squint … our data scientists have brought this phenomenon into plain sight.
Central London Grocery See Huge Sales Decline as City Workers Become Home Workers
With most offices shut and huge numbers of Londoners forced to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, travel into the capital has come to a halt, and so has the daily shopping.
Shop-Shifting
In our recent webinar - Shop-Shifting: Recalibrating for the Re-routed Spread of Spend - we summarise our findings from an investigation of store-level analysis across 15 countries.
Convenience 2.0: An Online Twist to a Retail Stalwart
E-commerce was certainly not born out of the pandemic, but the pandemic has elevated consumer adoption and reliance in ways that would have otherwise taken years. Consequently, brands and retailers need to innovate to meet elevated expectations.
Predicting Holiday Spending Across Consumer Types in the ‘New Normal’
Holiday shoppers will fall into one of five groups based on their existing financial and physical restrictions. Each will approach the reset of their holiday shopping behavior uniquely, and it will be imperative that companies align their plans with the new circumstances consumers find themselves...
COVID-19 Has Flipped the Value Proposition of Omnichannel Shopping for Constrained Consumers
Six months into the pandemic, an early reliance on e-commerce has expanded into a fundamental dependence on still-evolving omnichannel shopping experiences.
Webinar: A Tale of Two Shoppers
While the COVID-19 health crisis presents a risk to all, not all shoppers are impacted equally. Globally, two core groups have emerged. Tune in to our webinar playback and discover how Nielsen can help you discover and unlock new opportunities in understanding the shopper needs in the future...