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Understand Channel and Account-Level Shopping Dynamics


Homescan® Channel Facts allows marketing and sales teams to compare and contrast basic shopping measures across channel shoppers and category buyers within key retail channels and accounts.

Retailers can no longer think that their competition is limited to their specific channel. Manufacturers need to partner with retailers in developing a category strategy to establish the most effective merchandising, promotional and pricing levels to drive increased category and brand volume.

For example, although more category buyers shop in Retailer A (17.1MM), only 11% buy Category Z there. Retailer A should have the potential to convert at least as many category buyers as Retailer B (29%).

Converting 29% of Retailer A shoppers to purchase Category Z represents a $26.47MM opportunity for Retailer A. (29% - 11% = 18% incremental conversion x 17.1MM Hhlds x $8.60/per Hhld=$26.47MM opportunity). Additional Retailer A opportunity through improved category buying rate ($8.60-$22.60).

Category Z Buyers display strong spending power relative to the average account shopper, especially in Retailer B.

Channel Facts gives you:

  • Retailer Insights templates to transform Channel Facts data into pre-formatted, presentation-ready text and charts
  • Immediate access to over 1100 product groups and categories
  • All major retail channels and roughly 200 retailers
  • A fixed set of total shopping and category shopping measures
  • Total U.S., nineCensus Divisions and 23 markets
  • Delivery via CD-ROM or ACNielsen Workstation Information*Server

Channel Facts helps you to:

  • Identify the importance of category shoppers within a given channel.
  • Understand buyer conversion rates: What percentage of the category buyers who shop in a channel or account actually buy the category in that channel or account.
  • Understand trip conversion rates: What percentage of the channel and account trips among category buyers included the category.
  • Pinpoint opportunities to focus marketing efforts and new product initiatives against alternative channels of distribution.

ACNielsen Homescan™ is the leading and premier provider of household purchase and demographic information on consumer trends. Insights are derived from panelists who use a patented in-home scanner to record their changing attitudes, shopping habits, product purchases and lifestyles. Results offer highly actionable, demographically representative and nationally projectable consumer knowledge to both the consumer package goods (CPG) and retail industries.