2019

Retail success takes many forms in today's dynamic marketplace. From large legacy retailers to disruptive start-ups and all manner of competitors in between, the paths to retail success involves common principals around which there is a wide variation of understanding and execution.

To bring clarity to the issue of what makes a winner, dunnhumby, the global customer data science firm, conducted a massive survey of more than 7,000 U.S. shoppers for the second annual Retailer Preference Index (RPI), the first study of its kind in the industry. In what's quickly become known as retailing's equivalent of research firm Gartner's often-cited Magic Quadrant, dunnhumby's RPI is a ranking of more than 50 large food and consumable retailers based on a combination of shopper sentiment and financial performance.

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The traditional, regional U.S. grocery store—it's the institution that has fed communities for decades and families for generations. It offers that connection to a simpler time, a time when the guy behind the meat counter would know Customers by name, a time when a dad pushed his child around in a shopping cart while they "helped" him shop and a time before mobile phones invaded our lives and sped up the pace of life…

That place—the traditional grocery store—has history. Customers and the people who work there are part of a family. That kind of emotional connection is priceless.

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A new format in grocery retail is emerging: the 50,000 square foot convenience store. Its value proposition to customers is simple: higher quality perishables and ready-to-eat items than your typical grocery store. Thousands of the same center-store products you can also find at Walmart, Target, Amazon, Costco and Sam's Club. Everything at higher prices. Added bonus: since the store is 10x to 20x bigger than your typical c-store, you can get your steps in and burn calories at the same time.

Wait, what?

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Growing competition from traditional players and new market entrants. Machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Connected Consumer. Retail has never been more challenging. But, forget the so-called "retail apocalypse." The end is not here. We're in the midst of a retail revolution where the winners and the losers are yet to be determined. As retail continues to fragment, understanding how to develop a strong value proposition is vital for future success.

Hear results and insights from dunnhumby's second-annual Retailer Preference Index (RPI), a comprehensive nationwide study of 7,000 US households. The webinar will shed light on what's most important to Customers, and highlight which strategic levers retailers must pull to influence value perception and win in their markets.

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