In-Store Analytics: What’s Top of Mind for Today’s Retailers?
August 1, 2014 – Despite the gains that ecommerce has made in recent years, the brick-and-mortar store still rules as the retail industry’s largest sales channel by a large margin: up to 85 percent of transactions take place in stores. Yet frustratingly, retailers have a pretty big blind spot when it comes to understanding and analyzing what happens in the store. Clickstream analytics are a given in e-commerce, but capturing accurate data in the real world is more complex and demands different approaches and solutions.
Today’s multichannel retailers must address the “insight gap” that exists between their online and brick-and-mortar channels. In-store analytics are needed to do this, but how mature is this emerging technology market? What are the top drivers, and top concerns, for retailers evaluating technologies and planning deployments? These are some of the questions that Brickstream set out to answer in a recent survey of 124 executives from global retail corporations. The study, Retail Analytics: What’s In-Store? has uncovered a number of interesting findings, including the following: