Thrive in the Retail Atmosphere? Invest in Location Marketing
Headlines have long proclaimed that we’re suffering through the retail apocalypse. While this makes for great clickbait, physical retail is actually still alive and well.
Traditional retail path to purchase has been upended
It was once the common understanding in retail that shoppers follow a path to purchase, but that path today looks more like a web.
Research Identifies the New Consumer Path To Purchase
Blis, a provider of advanced location data technology, launched the findings of an in-depth study exploring consumer behaviors leading up to and during the point of purchase, detailed in a new report entitled Locating Decisions: A Marketer’s Guide to Re-Navigating the Consumer Path to Purchase.
Physical Stores Remain Go-To Channel for Discovery
For the most part, consumers have a game plan when they enter a store—they know what they intend to buy and stick closely to their shopping list. Still, in-store shopping has one advantage that online doesn’t: the ability to see and feel items in person.
Stores still critical in consumer purchase journey
Study from Blis found that in-store browsing was the number one way consumers discovered new products. The post Report: Stores still critical in consumer purchase journey, above TV and social appeared first on Marketing Land.
Stores still critical in consumer purchase journey
A new survey of 2,000 US consumers from location intelligence provider Blis argues that, contrary to marketers’ perceptions, the dominant way consumers discover new products is in traditional retail stores. At the same time, the study confirms the complex, multichannel and category-dependent nature of shopping today.
“Romantic Buyers” Based on Location Data and Contextual Targeting
New Research from Location Data Pioneer Blis Identifies the New Consumer Path to Purchase; Highlights the Transformation of the Path to Purchase from Linear to Web Based on Location Data
