Just because 75% of grocery shoppers in the two majors are female doesn’t mean you should treat them all the same, argues Peter Huskins. For Retail World Magazine.
They’re the words promotional marketing agencies see on most briefs for ‘target market’. “Main grocery buyer”. Aka women 25-54.
OK, so the two major supermarkets average 75% female shoppers. But to assume that’s the same in all stores, and that they all shop the same way, means the majors are missing opportunities to tailor activities – more profitably – to specific shopper types and shopping trip types. Vanilla is not the only flavour of milkshake.
Over the past few years that we’ve been running shopper research we’ve noticed that household makeup (how many people in the household, ie how many mouths to feed) and lifestage (eg SINK/DINK, young families, older families, empty nesters) have a far greater impact on shopping behaviour than does age, income, or geography.
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