Shopper Insights

How In-Store Signage Impacts Consumer Purchase Decisions in a World Where Brands Are Meaningless

"Do shoppers care about my brand?" It's a question that marketers are forced to constantly grapple with. Over 30,000 new CPG products are launched every year.

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Putting the ‘Custom’ in ‘Customer.’

Meet Your Shoppers In The Middle With Discussion, Discovery, and Data. The consumer relationship with brands, retailers, and their own personal data has mutated dramatically in recent years due to a clash of coinciding catalysts. As the technology industry directs more attention to data privacy and a “cookieless future,” shoppers admit to an inverse interest in exchanging their information for novel, custom shopping experiences.

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Inmar’s 2021 Trends Guide — Your Back-To-School Cheat Sheet!

Back-To-School season offers some of the largest opportunities to capitalize on consumer attention in any given year. In 2021, changes to school attendance, shopping norms, and general consumer behavior challenge the way businesses approach this momentous shopping occasion.  By implementing data-supported strategies and taking advantage of the latest industry trends, we’re able to eliminate roadblocks along the consumer path to purchase. Inmar’s Back-To-School Trends Guide provides insights to attract shoppers you might consider out of reach. 

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Trends and Tips For Entertaining in a Post Pandemic World

With social restrictions lifting, the volume of vaccinations on the rise, and temperatures rising, people are more eager than ever to safely re-emerge from their COVID-19 quarantine. In every family or friend group there is the go-to guy or gal lovingly referred to as “the entertainer,” dreaming up the next celebration or micro-occasion to bring everyone together. I hope you’ve checked on your friend, the entertainer, during this long, socially distant year because they are more than likely overdue to plan a spring soiree or summer social. 

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Spring Has Sprung: 4 Shopper Personas You Need to Know

This past year has been marked by unprecedented change — a phrase that’s undoubtedly the mantra of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic altered consumer shopping habits, reworked how brands and retailers approach marketing, and pushed e-commerce adoption rates years ahead of schedule.  Because all this change happened so rapidly, marketers are still trying to understand the best ways to reach their changing and evolving customers with relevant content, messaging and promotions. 

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Valentine’s Day: Shoppers Still Plan to Celebrate, Just Quarantine Style

Consumers are playing it COVID-safe by ordering takeout, but still plan to celebrate their loved ones as they have in years past.

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Thanksgiving by the Basketful

Every year Americans spend an average of $186.05 on their stock up Thanksgiving trip to the supermarket, but what items make up their basket? The data we've collected through Inmar Intelligence ShopperSync, market research and social listening provides an answer to this question. 

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Candy Corn, Costumes, and COVID: A Chilling Halloween Combination

Although the summer of 2020 may have felt like the longest episode of the Twilight Zone yet, a spooky holiday is creeping up on us like a black cat in a graveyard. Indeed, fall foliage and pumpkin spice will remain a staple this Halloween season; however, social distancing and mask-wearing protocol may make Halloween a little extra eerie. 

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A Surge In Online Grocery Shopping

Inmar Intelligence studied the grocery shopping behaviors of more than 300 consumers from across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our survey found significant shifts in shopper behavior, with consumers increasingly adopting online grocery shopping and other new purchasing practices in order to meet their household needs. Here’s a look at their retail activity before the pandemic and during the crisis.

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