Planning Your Soft Drinks Shopper Marketing

Select a zone below:

Pre-Shop

  • Zone 1: Outside of store
  • Objective: Awareness
  • Messaging: Lead creative - Emotional.
  • Shopper Mindset: Receptive to brand comms that move them emotionally.
  • Comms: Posters to grab the attention of people walking buy.

Shop

  • Zone 2: Store Entrance (larger stores)
  • Objective: Awareness.
  • Messaging: Prime shopper to desire and seek product in store.
  • Shopper Mindset: Arriving; listing not yet shopping.
  • Comms: Front of store activation with details on promotion and the main creative messages.

Shop

  • Zone 3: Perimeter
  • Objective: Turn awareness into conversion.
  • Messaging: Disruptive, high impact creative to stand out - engage and entertain to intercept.
  • Shopper Mindset: Navigating with a task in mind, but open to interception.
  • Comms: Use FSDUs (slim line in convenience) to create secondary sites around store which build on the awareness generated outside.

Shop

  • Zone 4: In-aisle/chiller/fridge
  • Objective: Drive consideration and conversion.
  • Shopper Mindset: Actively selecting and deselecting products - impulsively (DN) or with more consideration (DL).
  • Messaging: Highlight points of difference.
  • Comms: Use shelf strips, wobblers, fridge stickers, aisle fins to convert with reasons to believe at shelf.

Shop

  • Zone 5: At Checkout
  • Objective: Final reminder.
  • Messaging: Urgent messaging that drives impulse.
  • Shopper Mindset: Time to kill in the queue, but open to quick decisions depending on what they’ve already basketed.
  • Comms: Till communications can be used to encourage consumers to go and grab their drink.