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The trade magazine Hardware Store Manager now reports on the results of the study "Instore Navigation in German Retail" (2021, Riekhof/Grüneklee/Reutel). An expert survey among retail managers made it clear that there is still room for improvement in the exploitation of digital possibilities.

Hardware Store Manager Magazine picks up study “Instore Navigation in German Retail”

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The digital trade journal Hardware Store Manager picks up the current study “Instore Navigation in German Retail” in an article. As part of an expert survey, Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Riekhof, Professor of International Marketing at the PFH, together with two other authors from the PFH, examined for the university what contribution digital customer cards and the associated instore navigation can make to the digitization of stationary retail, such as facilitating product search in large sales areas like hardware stores. The magazine has now published some research results.

Under the headline “Study: Retail gives away chance for additional sales at the shelf”, the magazine essentially summarizes as follows: There is still room for improvement in the exploitation of digital possibilities in stationary retail in Germany. The survey among retail managers made it clear that only just under half (46 percent) of the companies surveyed by the researchers have already used or are using digital customer cards, this is planned by 11 percent.

Most companies are primarily concerned with making the shopping experience more pleasant for customers. “Location-based marketing and couponing, customer surveys directly at the scene and similar functions that digital customer cards also offer, seem to play a secondary role from the perspective of the surveyed managers”, Riekhof is quoted.

Links:

Article in Hardware Store Manager:
https://www.baumarktmanager.de/studie-handel-verschenkt-chance-auf-zusatzumsaetze-am-regal/150/84280/

Article in Hardware Store Manager as pdf:
Study: Retail gives away chance for additional sales at the shelf

More about the study “Instore Navigation in German Retail”:
https://www.unicconsult.com/referenz/instore-navigation-im-deutschen-einzelhandel-eine-expertenbefragung/

Lidl is currently testing digital customer cards, with which coupons can be delivered directly to the mobile phone. The project, which initially runs in the pilot region of Berlin and Brandenburg, raises questions in its orientation.

Pricing at Lidl: Discount store attracts with app as digital customer card

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Lidl is currently testing digital customer cards, with which coupons can be delivered directly to the mobile phone. In Berlin and Brandenburg, customers can use the new customer loyalty app “Lidl Plus”. With this, they receive special offers and features such as discount coupons, digital receipts or the flyer ready for every purchase. It is noteworthy that the coupons are not delivered location-based, says pricing expert Hans-Christian Riekhof.

Lidl Digital Customer Card

The free app, available from the Apple and Google app stores, serves as a digital customer card. Lidl has come up with a number of “exclusive benefits” for users. For example, a 5-euro welcome coupon, new digital discount coupons for selected products and savings benefits with the so-called “Lidl Plus crackers”. Also scratch cards with further coupons and price advantages with partners, e.g. at Lidl-Photos, Lidl-Travels, FlixBus and regional, activate providers in the app.

In return, the discount giant receives valuable customer data. Lidl can thus compensate for the major disadvantage of stationary compared to online trading, where it is common to collect and evaluate customer data. Based on customer profiles created from this, the app can then make offers to the customer that Lidl assumes the customer needs at this time.

With the customer data, Lidl sends suitable offers to the app users

According to Lidl, customers do not see different prices based on their data. However, there is indeed a price difference in favor of the app users – compared to customers who do not use the app.

With the digital customer cards, Lidl is faster than e.g. Aldi, the main rival, says Hans Christian Riekhof. The pricing expert finds it interesting that the app is advertised on various local channels – here the example Out Of Home. Even more noteworthy is that the coupons are not delivered location-based. “You could also deliver the push notifications in front of the store, in the store and maybe even directly on the shelf. This would significantly increase the relevance – measured by opening and redemption rates – according to our project experience. Maybe this will come in the second expansion stage”, says Riekhof.

Which campaigns promise particular success can be read in the News from locandis.

By the way, the project of the digital customer card, which is currently running in around 250 Lidl markets in the pilot area Berlin and Brandenburg, is planned to be extended to all of Germany during the year 2020.

Note:
Also read our empirical Study on Digital Customer Cards in retail, system catering and tourism (Riekhof/Brinkhoff 2018).

Further links:

Lidl:
https://unternehmen.lidl.de/pressreleases/190612_lidl-plus

Advertising and Selling:
https://www.wuv.de/marketing/lidl_bringt_digitale_kundenkarte_als_app


Photo at the top: Lidl Germany
Photo: UNICconsult Strategy Development GmbH

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