No more flat-earthing: the Path to Purchase is round

Topics: Business Strategy, E-Bulletins / Newsletters, FMCG, Point of Purchase, Shopper, Shopper marketing

The recent Path to Purchase Summit held in Sydney brought together a host of international and national speakers to explore what a 360 degree view of shopper marketing means now, in the most rapidly-changing period in retail history. The team from ShopAbility share their key take-outs from the event, for Retail World Magazine.

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If you’re not competing on price, what do you compete on?

Topics: Channel / Retail, FMCG, Point of Purchase, Shopper marketing

In New Zealand, the major two supermarket retailer groups don’t compete overtly on price. So how do they differentiate themselves? Norrelle Goldring from ShopAbility and Ruth Money from Apollo Marketing provide an overview of the NZ grocery market, for Retail World Magazine.

On the face of it, the New Zealand supermarket channel looks similar to the Australian one: a highly consolidated market with two big players who have the vast majority share between them.  But in NZ each of the supermarket retail groups are rowing their own boats, with mixed results.

Below we overview the NZ grocery market, what each of the major players is doing, and some two-way lessons from across the ditch.

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