Consumers are spending more time at home due to the pandemic, shifting the center of gravity for consumption. This has led many consumers to adapt their homes for working, learning, exercising and socializing remotely. As a result, new opportunities are emerging for consumer goods companies in areas like home improvement, home entertainment and e-commerce. To capitalize on these opportunities, companies need to innovate new products and services for the home, re-evaluate their channel strategies to prioritize local stores, and build more agile operating models and supply chains.
Right Cloud Mindset: Survey Results Hospitality | Accentureaccenture
Looking two years ahead: Functional objectives along with technology related challenges and top five areas of investment for hospitality companies. Learn more: https://accntu.re/3uB9LL1
Intelligent Operations for Future-Ready Businesses | Accentureaccenture
Accenture reveals that the relationship between intelligent operations and business value creation is key to becoming a future-ready organization. Read More.
PwC’s new Golden Age Index – how well are countries harnessing the power of o...PwC
One of the key megatrends affecting the UK and most other developed countries is an ageing population. Harnessing the potential of older workers will therefore become an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for both nations and businesses.
To explore how the UK compares with other OECD economies in this regard, PwC has developed a new ‘Golden Age index’ comparing how well they are utilising workers aged 55 and over. The index includes relative employment, earnings and training rates for older workers for 34 OECD countries over the period since 2003.
A.T. Kearney Consolidation of the US Banking IndustryKearney
More and more banked consumers are migrating from small to large banks, flagging the accelerated consolidation of the retail banking industry in the years to come.
A.T. Kearney reached out to more than 2,000 executives, business leaders, and heads of strategy functions to discuss their thoughts on the state of strategy today. Our findings indicate that while most leaders continue to believe in strategy, the return on their strategy initiatives has largely eroded over the past decade. In fact, when asked what it takes to secure a prosperous future, more than 80 percent of executives consider agility as important or more important than strategy when it comes to securing a prosperous future. Fortunately, the findings also point to promising ways to reclaim strategy—including using future-focused tools and techniques and engaging the organization in strategy formulation.
Cracking the Code on Consumer Fraud | Accentureaccenture
"Accenture research highlights how public safety agencies need a new approach to tackle consumer fraud – more intelligence-led,
proactive and collaborative."
Fintech New York: Partnerships, Platforms and Open Innovationaccenture
We are in the midst of a major disruption in the financial services that will see increasing adoption and evolution of disruptive FinTech solutions. Read our report released at the Fintech Innovation Lab’s Fifth Annual Demo Day Event.
Right Cloud Mindset: Survey Results Hospitality | Accentureaccenture
Looking two years ahead: Functional objectives along with technology related challenges and top five areas of investment for hospitality companies. Learn more: https://accntu.re/3uB9LL1
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Accenture reveals that the relationship between intelligent operations and business value creation is key to becoming a future-ready organization. Read More.
PwC’s new Golden Age Index – how well are countries harnessing the power of o...PwC
One of the key megatrends affecting the UK and most other developed countries is an ageing population. Harnessing the potential of older workers will therefore become an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for both nations and businesses.
To explore how the UK compares with other OECD economies in this regard, PwC has developed a new ‘Golden Age index’ comparing how well they are utilising workers aged 55 and over. The index includes relative employment, earnings and training rates for older workers for 34 OECD countries over the period since 2003.
A.T. Kearney Consolidation of the US Banking IndustryKearney
More and more banked consumers are migrating from small to large banks, flagging the accelerated consolidation of the retail banking industry in the years to come.
A.T. Kearney reached out to more than 2,000 executives, business leaders, and heads of strategy functions to discuss their thoughts on the state of strategy today. Our findings indicate that while most leaders continue to believe in strategy, the return on their strategy initiatives has largely eroded over the past decade. In fact, when asked what it takes to secure a prosperous future, more than 80 percent of executives consider agility as important or more important than strategy when it comes to securing a prosperous future. Fortunately, the findings also point to promising ways to reclaim strategy—including using future-focused tools and techniques and engaging the organization in strategy formulation.
Cracking the Code on Consumer Fraud | Accentureaccenture
"Accenture research highlights how public safety agencies need a new approach to tackle consumer fraud – more intelligence-led,
proactive and collaborative."
Fintech New York: Partnerships, Platforms and Open Innovationaccenture
We are in the midst of a major disruption in the financial services that will see increasing adoption and evolution of disruptive FinTech solutions. Read our report released at the Fintech Innovation Lab’s Fifth Annual Demo Day Event.
When, Where & How AI Will Boost Federal Workforce Productivityaccenture
Accenture developed an economic model to understand how AI will impact the U.S. federal workforce, through automation and augmentation. Learn more: https://accntu.re/3hsRG8O
The Accelerating Growth of Frictionless Commerce | A.T. KearneyKearney
Traditional payments are being replaced by new "frictionless" options that use customer-provided data to make a purchase without an explicit customer decision.
The Fourth Annual Global Mobility Study [hyperlink] by L.E.K. Consulting, Vision Mobility and CuriosityCX highlights that there is a much greater uptake of ride-hailing and other new mobility options in India and China than in mature western economies. With relatively low levels of car ownership and less developed public transport systems in these Asian countries, new mobility use is now comparable with and set to overtake traditional transport for a segment of the population.
Lifting the Barriers to Retail Innovation in ASEAN | A.T. KearneyKearney
Rising incomes and growing demand for consumer goods and services in ASEAN create rich opportunities for retailers in the region, which is especially significant as member nations join forces to become an economic powerhouse. Yet ASEAN retailers have been slow in terms of Innovation and as this market opens up, stepping up innovation is required to capitalize fully on the opportunities.
A.T. Kearney 2017 State of Logistics Report: Accelerating into UncertaintyKearney
2017 could be a pivotal year for logistics. Demand patterns are shifting, technological advances are altering industry economics, and new competitors are challenging old business models. This year could bring significant moves that reshape individual sectors and even the industry as a whole. Major business combinations, large-scale shifts in distribution flows, deep capacity cuts, massive infrastructure investments–anything is possible. Here are the ten key takeaways from the 2017 State of Logistics report, as well as the four potential scenarios for the future of logistics.
Is customer centricity just another management fad? Globally, companies are investing more than USD 10 billion annually to drive customer centric transformations, yet four in five are left unsatisfied.
Since last year ended on such a strong note, many of us were optimistic about the prospects for Q1. Though not as strong as the fourth quarter of 2014, the first quarter of 2015 kicked off on a positive note, with 23 technology companies raising US$6.1billion* in proceeds from their IPOs. That’s the second highest first quarter proceeds in the past five years and impressive given the increased US market volatility and consistent with the high pre-IPO valuations we’ve seen recently. Granted, if you look at the year over year comparison, offerings were down 12% and proceeds declined 11%. And sequentially, the number of technology IPOs declined 32% while proceeds fell by 19%. Still, it’s a promising start for 2015. Learn more at www.pwc.com/globaltechipo
*Deal size greater than US$40 million
Unleashing Competitiveness on the Cloud Continuum | Accentureaccenture
Accenture reports how the cloud continuum creates a seamless technology & capability foundation that meets business needs now and in the future. Read more.
Apache Hadoop Summit 2016: The Future of Apache Hadoop an Enterprise Architec...PwC
Hadoop Summit is an industry-leading Hadoop community event for business leaders and technology experts (such as architects, data scientists and Hadoop developers) to learn about the technologies and business drivers transforming data. PwC is helping organizations unlock their data possibilities to make data-driven decisions.
Federal Technology Vision 2021: Full U.S. Federal Survey Findings | Accentureaccenture
Leaders don’t wait for a new normal, they build it. The Accenture Federal Technology Vision 2021 identifies five key trends that agencies must address to lead in the post-pandemic world. Explore the full survey findings here. https://accntu.re/3sIBI0k
Infrastructure Victoria - AZ/ZEV International ScanL.E.K. Consulting
InfrastructureVictoria for released the Evidence Base that will inform its advice to the Victorian Government on the infrastructure required to support automated and zero emissions vehicles. The Evidence Base includes the findings of ten projects to address key areas, including transport, energy, ICT and urban design. L.E.K. Consulting contributed to this work program, undertaking an international scan of the regulation and technical standards relating to automated and zero emission vehicle technologies.
Top 8 Insights From the 2018 Beauty, Health & Wellness SurveyL.E.K. Consulting
Think nutritional supplements and skincare are of interest only to consumers of a certain age? Think again. According to L.E.K. Consulting’s third installment of a biennial survey of the healthy living marketplace, this one focusing on nutrition and skincare, some 80% of health and wellness (H&W) consumers across generations — from millennials to baby boomers — are highly engaged with both categories.
The survey captured insights from more than 1,600 respondents, representing roughly 77% of the U.S. adult population who identify with H&W themes, and generated eight key insights across categories. Together these insights make clear that consumer interest in nutritional supplements and skincare often lasts a lifetime.
The prosperity that Australia enjoys today will be challenged in the next decade. Disruptive technology will create fewer but bigger winners and more losers. Business has to increase its risk appetite, discover new ideas, pursue more radical strategies, and take bigger steps. In the face of adversity, Australia must respond.
The 2016 Strategic Hospital Priorities Study examines the current direction of the industry and, in particular, how Medtech companies can capitalize on the many needs of hospital administrators.
While the healthcare market has steadily evolved since L.E.K. Consulting issued its first hospital study in 2010, many of the same trends remain in place — among them consolidation, non-acute care integration, accountability, technology enhancements and novel pricing schemes.
This Executive Insights addresses a number of key topics, including:
Hospital administrator’s chief priorities
Most valuable medtech services
Focus on IT spending
Outlook for outsourcing
The Who, What, Why and When of 2019’s ConsumersRay Poynter
In this session, Jeff Tsui, Managing Director of Lightspeed Greater China, shares information on The Who, What, Why and When of 2019’s Consumers.
Jeff explores ways we can better understand changing audiences today and in the future.
Key points
- Look at online consumer behaviour data, who’s buying what and how, as well as looking at personality profiling and how we can build a richer understanding of audiences through this approach.
- Discuss how to reach this audience and how to talk to them in an engaging way to achieve considered responses from real consumers.
- Showcase ways to leverage new technology and data sources, including a tangible example of using Chatbots in research.
When, Where & How AI Will Boost Federal Workforce Productivityaccenture
Accenture developed an economic model to understand how AI will impact the U.S. federal workforce, through automation and augmentation. Learn more: https://accntu.re/3hsRG8O
The Accelerating Growth of Frictionless Commerce | A.T. KearneyKearney
Traditional payments are being replaced by new "frictionless" options that use customer-provided data to make a purchase without an explicit customer decision.
The Fourth Annual Global Mobility Study [hyperlink] by L.E.K. Consulting, Vision Mobility and CuriosityCX highlights that there is a much greater uptake of ride-hailing and other new mobility options in India and China than in mature western economies. With relatively low levels of car ownership and less developed public transport systems in these Asian countries, new mobility use is now comparable with and set to overtake traditional transport for a segment of the population.
Lifting the Barriers to Retail Innovation in ASEAN | A.T. KearneyKearney
Rising incomes and growing demand for consumer goods and services in ASEAN create rich opportunities for retailers in the region, which is especially significant as member nations join forces to become an economic powerhouse. Yet ASEAN retailers have been slow in terms of Innovation and as this market opens up, stepping up innovation is required to capitalize fully on the opportunities.
A.T. Kearney 2017 State of Logistics Report: Accelerating into UncertaintyKearney
2017 could be a pivotal year for logistics. Demand patterns are shifting, technological advances are altering industry economics, and new competitors are challenging old business models. This year could bring significant moves that reshape individual sectors and even the industry as a whole. Major business combinations, large-scale shifts in distribution flows, deep capacity cuts, massive infrastructure investments–anything is possible. Here are the ten key takeaways from the 2017 State of Logistics report, as well as the four potential scenarios for the future of logistics.
Is customer centricity just another management fad? Globally, companies are investing more than USD 10 billion annually to drive customer centric transformations, yet four in five are left unsatisfied.
Since last year ended on such a strong note, many of us were optimistic about the prospects for Q1. Though not as strong as the fourth quarter of 2014, the first quarter of 2015 kicked off on a positive note, with 23 technology companies raising US$6.1billion* in proceeds from their IPOs. That’s the second highest first quarter proceeds in the past five years and impressive given the increased US market volatility and consistent with the high pre-IPO valuations we’ve seen recently. Granted, if you look at the year over year comparison, offerings were down 12% and proceeds declined 11%. And sequentially, the number of technology IPOs declined 32% while proceeds fell by 19%. Still, it’s a promising start for 2015. Learn more at www.pwc.com/globaltechipo
*Deal size greater than US$40 million
Unleashing Competitiveness on the Cloud Continuum | Accentureaccenture
Accenture reports how the cloud continuum creates a seamless technology & capability foundation that meets business needs now and in the future. Read more.
Apache Hadoop Summit 2016: The Future of Apache Hadoop an Enterprise Architec...PwC
Hadoop Summit is an industry-leading Hadoop community event for business leaders and technology experts (such as architects, data scientists and Hadoop developers) to learn about the technologies and business drivers transforming data. PwC is helping organizations unlock their data possibilities to make data-driven decisions.
Federal Technology Vision 2021: Full U.S. Federal Survey Findings | Accentureaccenture
Leaders don’t wait for a new normal, they build it. The Accenture Federal Technology Vision 2021 identifies five key trends that agencies must address to lead in the post-pandemic world. Explore the full survey findings here. https://accntu.re/3sIBI0k
Infrastructure Victoria - AZ/ZEV International ScanL.E.K. Consulting
InfrastructureVictoria for released the Evidence Base that will inform its advice to the Victorian Government on the infrastructure required to support automated and zero emissions vehicles. The Evidence Base includes the findings of ten projects to address key areas, including transport, energy, ICT and urban design. L.E.K. Consulting contributed to this work program, undertaking an international scan of the regulation and technical standards relating to automated and zero emission vehicle technologies.
Top 8 Insights From the 2018 Beauty, Health & Wellness SurveyL.E.K. Consulting
Think nutritional supplements and skincare are of interest only to consumers of a certain age? Think again. According to L.E.K. Consulting’s third installment of a biennial survey of the healthy living marketplace, this one focusing on nutrition and skincare, some 80% of health and wellness (H&W) consumers across generations — from millennials to baby boomers — are highly engaged with both categories.
The survey captured insights from more than 1,600 respondents, representing roughly 77% of the U.S. adult population who identify with H&W themes, and generated eight key insights across categories. Together these insights make clear that consumer interest in nutritional supplements and skincare often lasts a lifetime.
The prosperity that Australia enjoys today will be challenged in the next decade. Disruptive technology will create fewer but bigger winners and more losers. Business has to increase its risk appetite, discover new ideas, pursue more radical strategies, and take bigger steps. In the face of adversity, Australia must respond.
The 2016 Strategic Hospital Priorities Study examines the current direction of the industry and, in particular, how Medtech companies can capitalize on the many needs of hospital administrators.
While the healthcare market has steadily evolved since L.E.K. Consulting issued its first hospital study in 2010, many of the same trends remain in place — among them consolidation, non-acute care integration, accountability, technology enhancements and novel pricing schemes.
This Executive Insights addresses a number of key topics, including:
Hospital administrator’s chief priorities
Most valuable medtech services
Focus on IT spending
Outlook for outsourcing
The Who, What, Why and When of 2019’s ConsumersRay Poynter
In this session, Jeff Tsui, Managing Director of Lightspeed Greater China, shares information on The Who, What, Why and When of 2019’s Consumers.
Jeff explores ways we can better understand changing audiences today and in the future.
Key points
- Look at online consumer behaviour data, who’s buying what and how, as well as looking at personality profiling and how we can build a richer understanding of audiences through this approach.
- Discuss how to reach this audience and how to talk to them in an engaging way to achieve considered responses from real consumers.
- Showcase ways to leverage new technology and data sources, including a tangible example of using Chatbots in research.
For independent restaurant owners, competing with national and global chain restaurants can seem like a daunting challenge. With the growth of major chain restaurants on the rise, independent or small chains looking to grow have to spend their time and money more wisely.
In this 30-minute, complimentary webinar, Fred Dilkes (Granbury Restaurant Solutions), will walk us through surprisingly effective ways that restaurant owners are using innovative marketing strategies, a new approach to customer relationships and powerful technology to grow their bottom line.
Integrating Traditional and Digital Media in a Digital World with Ron Hill of...amacolumbia
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See the presentation here.
Great white paper report published by St. Joseph Communications on Omni-channel advertising focused around providing solutions to retailers and brands.
The presentation includes all the slides used by keynote speakers of the 3rd WETS meetup, held on March 21, in Warsaw, Poland.
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2) ABC of Customer Loyalty by FluxBus = AI, BI, Customer Happiness - Michał Leman, Managing Director, FlixBus Poland
3) Think Big: 4 Keys to The Future of Retail - Jarosław Sokolnicki, Retails & Consumer Goods Industries Country Lead, Microsoft
4) Getting Your Users Over The Wall: How to Build Loyalty in Subscription-based Business, Mehmet Ozer, Strategic Account Manager, Insider
5) How to Tune Your E-commerce to PWA? - Michał Szklarski, Head of Digital Solutions, E-point
The costs of admission: consumer behaviour and your post-pandemic audienceJulie Fossitt
As part of the Americans for the Arts training for Pennsylvania.
As your organization has changed, pivoted and adapted, how has your audience done the same? As they engage in programming and possibly return to your spaces, what will they need? How can you utilize and maximize trends and consumer data to help you better understand and grow your audience? In this session, we will explore some recent research around consumer behavior throughout the pandemic and discuss what arts marketers can do right now to leverage this moment of change.
Create - Day 2 - 12:15 "Attention to Retail: An Exploration Into the Customer...PerformanceIN
Join Severine Philardeau, VP of partnerships at VoucherCodes.co.uk, as she explores two of the biggest trends driving retail today: a skyrocketing use of mobile technologies and consumers' “addiction” to deals.
Delegates can see how the rise of digital has changed the way retailers do business, but also how consumers' expectations have shifted dramatically.
Severine intends to share proprietary research on the new consumer journey while explaining how marketers can take advantage.
How to Meet the Consumer Mindset in Q4 and Beyond with Roundel, Target’s Medi...Tinuiti
Retail Media has emerged as a dynamic and indispensable channel for brands to connect with consumers in a whole new way – both online and instore. With Q4 coming up fast, navigating the complexity of how consumers shop and leveraging the right media to stay connected with them is more crucial than ever. This session is a can’t miss.
We’ll delve into the dynamic landscape of consumer packaged goods (CPG) and its intersection with the rising influence of Generation Z. Leveraging fascinating insights from Roundel, Target’s media network, we’ll explore the mindset of Target shoppers, offering a glimpse into their behaviors during key seasonal moments and how you can activate right now to prepare.
The connected shopper. Fallacy fad or reality?Simon Etchells
Does the connected shopper really exist? Is ominchannel a trend or the future?
As the line between physical and digital begins to blur, what is the role, relevance and importance of the various channels in “omni channel”? With examples, case studies and insights I explore what the connected shopper paradigm means for now and the future.
As SVP, Strategic Insights, prepared and presented this thought leadership to clients and at an Experian Marketing Summit. Thanks to all the great work by Alex Rosten, Katie Rosman, and the rest of the Demand Insights team.
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
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Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
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2. 2
Consumers’ center of gravity is shifting
towards the home
Restrictions keep
consumers home
1 in 4 consumers have
recently, or plan to,
renovate their
existing home.
Half of those
currently working
from home want to
continue doing so at
least once a week
in the future.
Home-based activities
become norm
Consumers adapt
homes to needs
Desire to work from
home strengthens
On average,
consumers are
spending ~2 hours per
day more at home
than they were in
January 2020.
2/3 plan to socialize at
home or virtually in the
next 6 months, as
discomfort with public
places endures.
Temporary Permanent
3. Leisure time now centers on the home,
boosting the at-home economy
Expected spend intent on routine activities in future
Spend intent, including intent to spend more, spend less and difference as net spend intent
At-home hobbies is the only activity that has a net positive spend intent for the next 6 months
Source: Accenture Wave 10 Consumer Pulse, conducted Feb 25th – Mar 5th
-60
-40
-20
0
20
40
-19%
-7%
-35%
28%
-46%
At-home
hobbies
(e.g. baking,
gardening)
-38%
-29%
22% 16%
24%
-26%
Exercising-
at-home
Socializing
at home
-15%
9%
20%
-40%
Takeaways
19%
Home
improvements
10%
Other non-
essential
shopping
-53%
Travel
14%
-56%
Eating out at
restaurants
13%
-59%
-42%
Socializing
in bars /
pubs / clubs
-49%
-2%
-20%
-40%
Intent to spend more money
Intent to spend less money
% At-home activities
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4. Consumers are
adapting their
homes to meet
increased
demands on
their space.
Working, relaxing, and making
the home a more functional and
comfortable place to spend time.
4
5. “Well, an area which has
changed, even in terms of
meaning, was my room, which
now is the room/space of work.
I had to make some changes
to it, make it like a mini office
and adapt a second screen
there for my computer.”
Male, 23, Brazil
In the next 6 months…
41%
are likely to invest
in smart home technologies
53%
are likely to spend
time on home improvement
Source: Accenture Wave 9 Consumer Pulse, conducted Nov 26th – Dec 10th
Accenture Consumer Video Diaries, Oct 12th – 23rd 5
6. Many new to working from
home have been converted
Anticipated future work from home patterns
Those that never worked from home before the pandemic
49%
21%
13%
58%
34%
24%
62%
46%
38%
WFH at least 1x a month
WFH at least a few
times a year
WFH at least 1x a week
March 19th – 25th
June 30th – July 5th
Feb 25th – March 5th
38%
of those who had never
worked from home prior to
the pandemic want to do so
at least once a week in future
This rises to
46%
for all remote workers
Source: Accenture Wave 10 Consumer Pulse, conducted Feb 25th – Mar 5th
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8. 19%
1 in 5
plan to relocate, or have recently done so
Top reasons to relocate
Ranked within the top 1 or top 3reasons for moving
28%
25%
13%
9%
5%
4%
39%
44%
40%
41%
31%
25%
To be in a better community
For work or study (e.g. new job, shorter commute)
No longer need to be as close to my workplace
due to working from home more
To be closer to family or friends
Upsizing now we’re spending more time at home
and need more room
Upsizing for other reasons (e.g. need more space
for dependents)
Top 1 Top 3
25%
more likely to be
renovating than
everyone else
Employees working from home are…
80%
more likely to be
relocating
Source: Accenture Wave 9 Consumer Pulse, conducted Nov 26th – Dec 10th
Note: Not all reasons to locate shown for simplicity 8
10. Source: Accenture Strategy, The Big Value Shift
The big shift away from public spaces
Changing consumer preferences may cause $2+ trillion of annual value
to migrate from public spaces to home-focused industries
Where value is at risk
Culture &
Recreation
• Bars and clubs
• Restaurants
• Sporting events
and concerts
City center
Retailer
• Retail stores
• Department stores
• Consumer products
Public
transport
• Metropolitan
transport networks
• Air travel
Commercial
real estate
• City center retail property
• Restaurants and bars
property
• Other commercial
developers
Where value may shift
Groceries • Rise in home cooking vs.
eating at restaurants
Home and
digital
entertainment
• Digital streaming
• Family entertainment
• Home connectivity
Ecommerce &
technology
• Digital stores and
online shopping
• Virtual events
Home
improvements
• Tools and materials
• Home furnishings
• Construction
New epicenters of consumption
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11. Retail spend with traditional
retailers is growing quickest
in less urbanized areas
YoY growth in retail spending*, excluding Amazon
Average March – September 2020
Small Town Metropolitan
Rural Suburban
“We buy our groceries more often in
a local place, for example in a small
store that is right in our neighborhood
…There it feels a little bit more
comfortable to buy groceries
than in a big supermarket.”
Female, 40, Germany
“I’ve used retail stalls…because
I’m at home more and need
more food all the time.”
Male, 21, UK
Source: Affinity Solutions Inc, tracking spend by a panel of ~20MM Credit/Debit card holders in the US at zip level.
*Retail includes 19 department, discount, drug, pharmacy and grocery stores including Walmart, Target, Kroger,
CVS Health, Walgreens and Albertsons. See methodology for full list. N = 493,882,246 total transactions.
6%
15%
7%
5%
Retail excl. Amazon
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12. Local businesses are
also benefitting from
community support
Likelihood of buying behaviors in the next 6 months
Top 2: Highly Likely and Likely
Source: Accenture Wave 9 Consumer Pulse, conducted Nov 26th – Dec 10th.
Accenture Consumer Video Diaries, Oct 12th – 23rd
58%
say their communities are at risk
due to economic challenges
In response,
68%
of these are actively
supporting local businesses
Community support translates
to local consumption
55% 56%
63%
Global average
Shop in neighborhood
stores vs.
large chain stores
Buy more locally
sourced products
Shop closer to home
vs. retail destinations
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13. “I think that people have
become more conscious
about shopping small
<businesses>…
I personally will be
shopping small for the
next five, 10, 15, 20
years… that's something
that will be different for me.”
Female, 26, USA
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15. 68%
of those working from home
say that convenience, such
as access to food and drink
options, is important to them
41%
however, struggle to
access convenient options
Source: Accenture Wave 9 Consumer Pulse, conducted Nov 26th – Dec 10th
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16. Consumers browse
what’s on offer from local stores, and purchases are
fulfilled by their local, trusted shopkeeper free of
charge in under 15 minutes. The app has been rolled
out in numerous cities across South America.
Delivering local
convenience through
traditional trade
Users can order a variety
of hotel services from nearby luxury hotels, so that
they can feel like a guest in their own home. Services
on offer include cleaning and laundry, brunch buffets,
romantic dinners, themed celebration dinners, as well
as the offer to book a day pass to work from the hotel.
Looking beyond
the industry for
innovative solutions
Coca-Cola has
launched Wabi –
an app for kiosks
and other traditional
neighbourhood stores
to fulfill local orders
from consumers.
Also from South
America comes Room
Service LATAM: an
app designed to bring
hotel experiences into
customers homes.
Sources: Coca-Cola, AWS and iProUP, and Room Service Latam 16
17. CPG leaders
need to rethink
what they sell,
through whom
and where to
drive growth.
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18. Linked to
broader
innovation
The home will be a hotspot for
value creation, so CPGs need
to be actively innovating to meet
the new consumption occasions
emerging. Success requires real-
time insight on local patterns and
consumer behaviour that can
then be forensically interrogated.
Innovation should not just be in
products and offerings though,
but also in how these can be
developed, delivered and
deployed profitably at scale.
What:
Create innovations
powered by data
Through whom:
Re-evaluate
priority channels
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19. Local stores in residential
areas will play an increasingly
important role in their
communities, and they
therefore need to be prioritized
as part of a holistic channel
strategy. CPGs need to
redefine their customer
segmentation and service
strategy to reflect localized
needs and new value potential.
The home will be a hotspot for
value creation, so CPGs need
to be actively innovating to meet
the new consumption occasions
emerging. Success requires real-
time insight on local patterns and
consumer behaviour that can
then be forensically interrogated.
Innovation should not just be in
products and offerings though,
but also in how these can be
developed, delivered and
deployed profitably at scale.
What:
Create innovations
powered by data
Through whom:
Re-evaluate
priority channels
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20. What:
Create innovations
powered by data
Through whom:
Re-evaluate
priority channels
Where and how:
Build agile operating
models and supply chains
The home will be a hotspot for
value creation, so CPGs need
to be actively innovating to meet
the new consumption occasions
emerging. Success requires real-
time insight on local patterns and
consumer behaviour that can
then be forensically interrogated.
Innovation should not just be in
products and offerings though,
but also in how these can be
developed, delivered and
deployed profitably at scale.
Local stores in residential
areas will play an increasingly
important role in their
communities, and they
therefore need to be prioritized
as part of a holistic channel
strategy. CPGs need to
redefine their customer
segmentation and service
strategy to reflect localized
needs and new value potential.
As new epicenters emerge,
CPGs need to follow their
consumers. That means
advanced modelling to map
out the physical redistribution
of demand, to identify and
prioritize the new areas of
growth. CPGs need to create
agile operating models –
processes, capabilities, teams
and culture, that can intelligently
flex to accommodate the shifts
and unlock new value pools.
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