Chicory's New Consumer Survey Decodes the Omnichannel Shopper's Path to Purchase
Thursday, April 29, 2021
46% opt for BOPIS, 44% get their order delivered and 39% physically shop for items in-store.
NEW YORK, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The grocery shopper's path to purchase from digital to in-store and other online environments has always been obscure. Chicory, the leading digital shopper marketing platform, conducted a survey of 1,041 consumers who are the primary cooks in their households in order to discover how digital habits influence in-store and digital grocery purchases.
These are just a few of the key insights from Chicory's new consumer survey, Digital Planning and Shopping in an Omnichannel World, also summarized in an infographic. Key findings include:
Digital food inspiration directly affects grocery purchases
-- When asked to select all that apply, overall respondents chose food
blogs (38%) as the top source for meal inspiration, exceeding large
recipe publishers (35%) and Pinterest (34%).
-- In order to make sure that they actually cook recipes, 53% of
respondents take a screenshot of the recipe, 35% bookmark it, 32% email
it to themselves and 27% print it out, demonstrating that there's a
significant gap between the moment of digital inspiration and the
methods that consumers use to create shopping lists for purchase.
-- 25% of respondents manually write the ingredients down to shop for them
in the store, indicating omnichannel planning.
-- An average of 19% of respondents have digital-first habits, such as
saving recipes on social media and adding ingredients to digital
shopping carts.
-- When asked to order likelihood of purchasing advertised or promoted
products, respondents answered that ads in digital recipes (3.23
weighted average on 1-5 scale) are the top context to get shoppers to
buy products, slightly surpassing ads on retailer's websites (3.22).
This is closely followed by shoppable tech (3.14), like a 'buy
ingredients' button in a digital recipe, outweighing both an ad on a
coupon/circular website and an ad on social media.
Grocery orders that start online often end in-store
-- Confirming industry data that BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) is
the fastest growing and most popular method of fulfillment for online
grocery shoppers, 46% of respondents indicated that they pick up their
order in the store after adding items to their digital carts.
-- 44% of respondents check out for grocery delivery.
-- Among the 42% of respondents who come back to check out later, they
check out in:
-- Less than a week: 77%
-- 7-13 days: 17%
-- 14-29: 4%
-- 30+ days: 2%
-- 39% either go to the store to physically shop for the items that they
add into their digital carts or convert the digital cart into an actual
shopping list.
The value of getting on the shopping list
-- 85% of surveyed online grocery shoppers are likely to buy the same
things weekly and 80% are likely to repeat previous grocery shopping
orders.
-- Households' primary cooks are least likely to add items throughout the
week as they see inspiration from places like digital recipes,
television commercials, TikTok videos, Instagram posts and digital
display ads, and are most likely to add grocery items to their digital
shopping carts all at once.
-- The weighted average of each response is as follows:
-- Do it all at once: 3.77
-- Buy the same things weekly: 3.61
-- Look at prior shopping lists/repeat by order: 3.57
-- Add throughout the week as you see inspiration: 3.17
-- The likelihood of repeating prior purchases increases by 12% as
household size increases from 1-2 person households to 6+ person
households, and buying the same things weekly increases by 25%.
Shoppers discover new grocery products through new and traditional digital channels
-- Over half (56%) of our survey respondents discover new grocery products
online directly through retailer.com, or the retailer's ecommerce site.
-- Nearly a third (31%) of respondents find new products on digital recipe
sites.
-- 27% of respondents use digital circular and coupon services and websites
to find new products, implying that about a quarter of consumers are
firstly motivated by price.
-- The various social media channels, including Facebook, Youtube,
Pinterest and Instagram (excluding TikTok, 11%) are nearly even, with an
average of 20%.
-- Finally, 21% of respondents find new products through digital ads.
Yuni Sameshima, CEO and Co-Founder of Chicory, says:
"At Chicory, we firmly believe that omnichannel shopping behaviors are here to stay, but historically, it's been difficult to decipher the omnichannel path to purchase. Through this consumer survey, we found that digital habits greatly influence shoppers' online and in-store shopping behaviors. Notably, we were able to quantify the value of getting a product into a digital shopping cart, as 85% of surveyed online grocery shoppers are likely to buy the same things weekly and 80% are likely to repeat previous grocery shopping orders.
"Many of today's omnichannel shoppers start their grocery shop and search for inspiration online, and then move through ecommerce channels or exit the digital environment and end their purchase in-store.
"As such, creating a seamless omnichannel experience that spans both on-and offline is more important than ever before because today's shoppers demonstrate unprecedented and varied grocery shopping behaviors and purchase journeys."
View the full survey here.
Methodology
Chicory conducted this survey from March 30 to 31, 2021 and surveyed 1,041 total consumers, aged 25 to 60 years old. The margin of error is +/- 3.392%.
About Chicory
Chicory is an NYC-based tech firm and the leading digital shopper marketing platform for CPG and grocery brands. Its signature "Get Ingredients" button can be found on over 1,500 recipe websites, including Taste of Home, Delish, and thousands of influencer food blogs. Leveraging its extensive recipe network, Chicory partners with leading CPG brands like General Mills and grocery retailers like Wakefern to serve hyper-relevant ads to consumers in the moments when they're planning their grocery purchases. As the pioneer of shoppable recipes, Chicory creates the digital tools to take grocery shoppers from inspiration to checkout in a few clicks.
Please download Chicory's logo here.
Contact:
Chicory
Shanna Zhou
PR Manager
shanna@chicory.co
(917) 775-1595
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