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Home » CPG Companies Keep Plowing Money Into Promotions, But Research Questions the Benefit

CPG Companies Keep Plowing Money Into Promotions, But Research Questions the Benefit

April 4, 2016
Acosta

"Trade promotion is weakening as a mainstay of shopper marketing as it's not delivering the results manufacturers had come to expect," said Colin Stewart, senior vice President at Acosta. "As such, a promotional hamster wheel has been created, in which many CPG manufacturers tend to repeat an old strategy, but see [fewer] gains. The wheel continues to spin and spin … until manufacturers adapt their strategies to the reality of today’s shopping landscape."

Acosta outlines the three factors keeping the hamster wheel spinning:

Weakening Promotional Value

Over the last five years, the everyday price of items has been on the rise, and consequently, promoted prices have been as well. Thus, higher average prices, coupled with shallower promotions, have resulted in lower promotional lifts.

Promotional lift is at its lowest level in five years, averaging just 75.4 percent — a 3.1 percent decrease from 2014-2015 alone, according to IRI Reviews.

Promotional Saturation

Because of the lower returns on trade promotion spending, manufacturers are only exacerbating the problem — and the hamster wheel — often earmarking more trade dollars for everyday low price strategies.

Thirty-six percent of shoppers rank paper circulars at the top of the list for impacting their shopping trips and what products they purchase, despite younger generations preferring digital to print, and newspaper deliveries continuing to decline.

Shopper Behavior

Today’s savvy shoppers will channel surf, wait for the next promotion, check a price online or even switch to private labels before spending more than they expect on a product.

Sixty-four percent of shoppers said they will shop elsewhere for competitive pricing and hold off on purchases until certain products are on sale.

Sixty-seven percent of shoppers reported that at least half of their basket is filled with products that are on promotion.

“It’s clear that shoppers are not reacting to traditional trade promotion as they have in the past,” Stewart said. “Rather than perpetuating the hamster wheel, CPG manufacturers should focus on establishing a new promotion playbook, and maximize investment in trade promotion through a renewed focus on the fundamentals that drive base sales: collaborative planning; shopper-centric promotions; integrated sales and marketing; and trade optimization.”

Source: Acosta

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