Digital Convergence - A new approach using retail audit data

The paper describes an example of a business application created from an existing retail audit panel by combining the data and on a transversal axis, expanding the scope used in traditional retail audit analysis.

Digital Convergence

A New Approach Using Retail Audit Data

Claude FlochGfK Marketing Services, France

INTRODUCTION

In the 1980s a consumer was buying a single lens reflex camera in order to take quality pictures.

At this time, a retail panel was answering to several questions like:

  • How many SLRs were sold this year in Great Britain?

  • Which retail channel sells the most during the September – October sales period?

  • What are the best selling models above the price of £250?

  • What is Canon's share within the SLR segment?

In front of the offered product today, the same consumer will have...

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