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Food Newspaper Reports on Instore Navigation at Hagebau

The Food Newspaper currently reports on the recently introduced system of instore navigation at Hagebau. With this technology, controlled via a smartphone app, customers can find their way around the hardware store better.

As reported, customers at Hagebau dealer Wigger from Neumünster can be guided through the market to the desired product by instore navigation. This is linked to offers and additional information that customers receive directly on their mobile phones at the shelf. This was realized by the company locandis from Hamburg, which specializes in technology, conception and strategies for solutions around location-based marketing, indoor navigation, digital customer cards and more.

The Food Newspaper refers in its article to the finding of experts that the technology is still waiting for its breakthrough. Thus, Prof. Hans-Christian Riekhof, Mathieu Grüneklee and Leon Reutel in 2021 conducted a study for the Private University of Göttingen (PFH) among executives in retail on the topic of instore navigation in German retail. The enormous potential of the technology for stationary retail also became clear.

Further links

Full article in the Food Newspaper (Paywall):
https://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/tech-logistik/nachrichten/per-kunden-app-hagebau-lotst-per-instore-navigation-161283?crefresh=1

Hardware store: Instore Navigation offers targeted finding of products:
https://www.unicconsult.com/baumarkt-instore-navigation-bietet-zielsicheres-finden-von-produkten/

Article on the homepage of the company locandis:
https://www.locandis.de/instore-navigation-mit-der-app-durch-den-baumarkt/

The PFH Private University of Göttingen recently published a study on instore navigation in retail:
“Instore Navigation in German Retail” (Riekhof, Grüneklee, Reutel, 2021)

Hardware Store: Instore Navigation Provides Accurate Product Finding

Shopping can also be done without detours: In Neumünster, you can navigate through a hardware store using an app. This leads directly to the desired product. The so-called instore navigation is a trend that brings a multitude of advantages in the digitalization of stationary trade.

The starting signal for the project was given in July 2021, when the smartphone app “WIGGI hagebaumarkt” by C.J. Wigger KG Hagebaumarkt in Neumünster went live. In the hardware store, the visitor can expect a whole new shopping experience – one without unnecessary detours. If a customer is looking for saw blades for the jigsaw, for example, he can open his app when entering the store, enter the saw blades into the so-called Product-Finder and is then led directly to the relevant shelf by his smartphone. If the customer enters several products in the hardware store, the app calculates the shortest shopping route. Searching was yesterday, today is found – thanks to instore navigation.

The technology and idea behind it is the Hamburg company locandis.

Full article:
https://www.locandis.de/instore-navigation-mit-der-app-durch-den-baumarkt/

Recently, the PFH Private University of Göttingen published a study on instore navigation in retail:
“Instore Navigation in German Retail” (Riekhof, Grüneklee, Reutel, 2021)