Shopping in the digital age: A tale of two grocery experiences
You can lose or gain a customer based solely on one online experience. Is yours up to par?
There are many conversations today about whether technology has actually given people more time or consumed more of it, but one thing is crystal-clear when it comes to grocery-shopping and advances in technology: Amazon and convenience go hand-in-hand, and consumers are following.
Even the formerly stalwart grocery sector finds itself transforming, with tremendous amounts of time having been saved since customers started mixing up physical shopping with online shopping.
Amazon and convenience: A simple path to purchase is the future of e-commerce
In December, Amazon continued to make the pages of e-commerce history, stunning retailers, grocers, and shoppers alike with the announcement that they’ll be opening 2,500 brick and mortar stores, dubbed Amazon Go, across the U.S.
These locations will boast simplified shopping, no checkout lines and, most importantly, convenience at every turn.
Complementing Amazon’s already popular grocery-delivery programs, Pantry and AmazonFresh, Amazon Go is determined to keep their customers supplied with the most sought-after commodity of all — time.
Ben Basche of San Francisco summed up the thought process of many who are swapping out pushing shopping carts for clicking “enter” buttons, noting,
“Echo + Amazon Pantry have completely replaced trips to Walgreens and the corner store for me. Not just because it’s delivered to my door within two days, but because as soon as I realize I need something like toilet paper, I can simply ask Alexa and order it right there before I forget. So it saves me both the time of going to the store and the mental RAM of needing to remember to go in the first place.”
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Can you hear me now? Voice, mobile, subscriptions, omnichannel are the foundation of Amazon’s convenience
With the dawn of AI like Echo, personal assistants, voice commerce, and subscription commerce, retailers are awakening to a new dawn when it comes to reaching and retaining their customers.
Companies that recognize the importance of retaining consumer data to best understand their customers are the companies who will win in the future. By offering a customer data platform that makes online shopping seamless and simple, brands will be poised for success in the digital future.
It’s high time grocery stores had an existential crisis
Shoppers want grocers to help them solve some of the problems of modern life, are you ready?
The grocery aisles of yesterday are not the aisles of today. Grocers need to know their customers in both their online and physical worlds and need to offer not just cost-saving measures, but convenience.
U.S. grocery shoppers are changing their online shopping behaviors, and most retailers need plenty more than a study to catch up and keep up – they need to transform if they hope to be in the same room when it comes to Amazon and convenience.
Grocery retailers like Wal-Mart, Kroger, and Meijer (to name a few) have begun offering curbside pickup, allowing their regular customers to order online and simply pull-up to have their groceries loaded into their car, as well as BOPIS (Buy Online Pickup In Store). No more wandering down aisles while fighting crowds and long lines.
Amazon has changed the way that grocery shopping and retail is being done, and grocers must recognize this today.
