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What type of convenience store are you?

August 30, 2010

What type of convenience store are you? What does this mean to your shoppers and what your offer should be? ShopAbility discuss, for Convenience World Magazine. Read more  Read More →

Who do you think you are?

August 2, 2010

What type of pharmacy are you? What does this mean to your shoppers and where you should focus? ShopAbility discuss, for Retail Pharmacy Magazine. Read more  Read More →

A range of possibilities: driving growth with smart choices

July 16, 2009

Product range is one of the top three reasons why shoppers choose one store over another. How can smart ranging decisions increase your profitability, appeal to more shoppers and differentiate your store versus competitors? By ShopAbility for Retail Pharmacy Magazine Read more  Read More →

The final few feet: optimising in-store advertising

April 21, 2009

For B&T Magazine, April 2009. Norrelle Goldring from ShopAbility and colleagues discuss how to leverage the in-store environment and influence the shopper where it counts. Norrelle’s comments highlighted on page 4. Download the article here  Read More →

Weathering an economic storm: successful retail marketing in interesting times

December 12, 2008

By Norelle Goldring, Director, ShopAbility, Marketing Magazine Retail Marketing Feature August 2008 Macro consumer & economic trends impacting shopper behaviour and how to leverage them We are living in interesting times for retail. On the one hand we have a growing pool of high income earners and the ubiquitisation of luxury... Read more

Horses for Courses in a Changing Grocery Sector

August 7, 2008

For Ad News, by Norrelle Goldring, Director, ShopAbility. The concentrated and restrictive grocery marketing environment in Australia is expected to loosen over the next few years, giving marketers more choices in how they get their brands to market and promote them instore. Coupled with new best practice thinking and tracking tools... Read more

One size doesn’t fit all: Using Segmentation to Sell More

July 14, 2008

By Norrelle Goldring, Director, ShopAbility For Marketing Magazine, April 2008 Issue The release of the latest Mosaic study, with its 11 macro consumer segments and 47 consumer ‘types’, highlights the increasingly fragmented nature of the consumer and shopper base in Australia and reinforces the need for targeted marketing and... Read more

Don't Fence Me In

March 18, 2008

Single person urban dwellings (or SPUDs) now account for 25% of all Australian households in 2008. More people are trading white picket fences for elevator access. But is the rise and rise of the SPUD being reflected in products and stores? Who is the SPUD shopper and what do they want and need? While there is, no doubt, a variety... Read more

The FMCG Oscars: nominations for the top trends of 2008

March 18, 2008

Published in Retail World 03.03.08 by ShopAbility Directors Peter Huskins and Norrelle Goldring What are your hot picks and new year’s resolutions? Where is the industry going? Directors of ShopAbility, Peter Huskins and Norrelle Goldring, share their nominations for the top five FMCG trends of 2008 – what the best suppliers... Read more

A Little Too Close Too Home

December 4, 2007

In the past twelve months there have been a bevy of reports about a ‘return to the village economy’ and shoppers shifting from grocery or mass to local specialty stores. As ‘localisation’ gains momentum, retailers and suppliers are responding with an increased focus on segmentation and clustering. But here’s the rub: ... Read more

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