Retail home improvement franchises need to apply location intelligence techniques and foot traffic analytics to identify consumer mobility patterns, in order to maximize sales and generate more efficient expansion models.
The correlation between foot traffic, visits, sales, and the success of hardware home improvement franchises have been studied and proven, so the development of this type of analysis has become a priority in the site selection process and expansion modeling.
Retailers are already implementing Big Data tools such as location intelligence and foot traffic analytics to understand consumer mobility patterns, measure foot traffic at each store, understand the performance of their outlets, and estimate competitor turnover.
Location intelligence and mobility analytics allow companies to create Out-of-Home advertising strategies focused 100% on the tastes and preferences of the people who pass through each point.
In outdoor advertising (OOH), knowing in depth the consumers who pass through the point where the advertising will be exposed is crucial to maximizing as much as possible the return on investment.
Customer behavior analysis it's important because it helps businesses to understand how users interact with a brand, now it can be done in a more objective and real way using Big Data management techniques
Customer behavioral analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data, using technology tools such as Big Data, machine learning and location intelligence, help gain long-term insights of the average purchase value, customer lifetime value and users interaction with a brand, enabling companies to incorporate data-driven business strategies that facilitate decision making and revenue maximization.
Thanks to advanced Big Data techniques that make it possible to collect and analyze large volumes of mobility data, it is possible to establish where consumers live and where they go before visiting a shopping mall or supermarket.
Today, business leaders have access to Business Intelligence solutions that are based on millions of anonymized data generated every second by cell phones, records that allow increasingly accurate estimates of the levels of affluence received by commercial establishments.
During the first half of 2021, consumers in Central American countries increased their interest in comics, martial arts, motorcycles, vegetarian food, spa services, air travel, weight loss products and sporting goods.
Through a system that monitors in real time changes in consumer interests and preferences in Central American countries, developed by CentralAmericaData, it is possible to project short- and long-term demand trends for the different products, sectors and markets operating in the region.
In the last week of May 2021, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Guatemala were the economies in which the number of people visiting establishments identified as supermarkets was considerably higher than the figures reported before the pandemic.
In the first five months of the year, and in the context of the reactivation of commercial activities, more Central American consumers have visited locations identified as supermarkets and pharmacies.
Using today's technology, it is possible to know and accurately monitor consumer mobility, identify the places they visit, how often they do so, at what times and on what days, and transform this mobility and pedestrian flow data into solutions for optimizing commercial and marketing strategies.
People mobility is a concept that covers much more than just movement.
Companies that offer their customers mobile and digital payment options, and also have cybersecurity mechanisms for fraud prevention, are the ones that will be able to take advantage of their position in this context of e-commerce boom.
The pandemic has considerably changed consumer habits, because of the quarantine decreed in the countries of the region, people prefer to spend more time at home, a phenomenon that forced companies to offer their customers online shopping options.
Using big data management techniques, it is possible to know, with greater precision than with traditional methods, the socio-demographic characteristics, tastes, preferences and interests of consumers living in a specific area of a city or of groups of people who visit particular stores.
Nowadays, with the large volumes of data that exist, it is possible to examine absolute and relative numbers of potential customers of a shopping center or business that are in any other location.
It is estimated that in Central America close to one million people express interest in soups in the digital environment, being Ramen, Curry and Maggi, some of the terms most associated by consumers with high purchasing power with the subject.
An analysis of the interests and preferences of consumers in Central America, prepared by the Business Intelligence Area of CentralAmericaData, yields interesting results on the preferences and tastes of people in various foods, products, services and activities.
By collecting and analyzing the information that Internet search engines store on the queries that consumers make, it is possible to know with a high degree of precision what their interests are and to look for patterns or trends that help to measure performance indicators for a specific topic.
Through systems that provide real-time monitoring of changes in consumer interests and preferences in different countries, it is possible to project short- and long-term demand trends for the different products, services, sectors and markets operating in the regions.
In Costa Rica, most of the customers who make purchases through digital channels are young women, a good part of this group of people resides in San Jose and buy through social networks.
E-commerce has become important in all markets, especially since the declaration of emergency due to the outbreak of Covid-19 and the restrictions on the mobility of people imposed by Central American governments.
In the first week of April 2021, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Guatemala were the countries in the region where the number of people visiting establishments identified as supermarkets was higher than the figures reported before the pandemic.
Over the course of the months and in the context of the reactivation of commercial activities, more Central American consumers have visited locations identified as supermarkets and pharmacies.
During the first quarter of 2021 in the countries of the region, consumers increased their interest in beer, motorcycles, vegetarian food, spa services, air travel, extreme sports and apartment rentals.
Through a system that monitors in real time changes in consumer interests and preferences in Central American countries, developed by CentralAmericaData, it is possible to project short and long term demand trends for the different products, sectors and markets operating in the region.