Retail Solutions

comScore Retail Solutions are formulated to meet the unique needs of retailers by providing insight into consumer shopping and buying that occurs on the Web, while also detailing the impact of online activity on offline purchases. Although retailers routinely gather information about consumer purchases on their own Web sites, comScore Retail Solutions provides vital intelligence to help retailers understand what their customers buy - and how much they spend - on competitive Web sites.

comScore Retail Solutions integrate demographic profiles of consumers with Internet surfing patterns, spending data and attitudinal information to deliver analyses designed to meet retailers' specialized information needs. Examples of these solutions include:

Visitor Non-Buyer (VNB) Analysis
The VNB analysis helps retailers understand the drivers of the behavior of consumers who visit their Web site, but leave without making a purchase. Because comScore captures the purchasing patterns of those VNBs on competitive sites, retailers can advance beyond conversion rate metrics to measure lost sales. comScore also helps retailers better understand factors contributing to lost sales, including product offerings, price, promotions and product placement on competitive sites.

Online/ Offline Analysis
comScore's Online/ Offline Analysis helps retailers better understand the impact of their multi-channel presence and online marketing efforts - such as search marketing - on purchase habits and transaction sizes at retail. This enables retailers to quantify the impact of their online efforts on total sales and apply a fact-based approach to determine the ROI from online marketing efforts, including the effect on offline purchases.

Database Matching
comScore can easily conduct a privacy-protected match of its panel database with a retailers' loyalty card or frequent shopper database. The resulting integrated data can be used to better understand the online behavior of key offline-buying segments. The integrated data can also be used to develop algorithms to "score" a retailer's consumer files and drive more effective direct marketing campaigns.

Competitor Performance Report
The comScore Competitor Performance Report offers retailers valuable information to benchmark performance against other Web sites within their category-specific competitive set, e.g. mass merchants, office supply retailers, apparel/accessory retailers, etc. This analysis includes comparisons of site visiting metrics — including conversion rates, average dollars spent per transaction, average minutes per visit and dollar share of category transactions. Competitor Performance Reports also enable retailers to assess degrees of consumer loyalty and levels of comparison shopping.

comScore Insights
comScore Insights provide clients with the ability to conduct survey research studies using comScore panelists focused on a wide range of online and offline issues, including customer satisfaction, purchase intent, attitudes towards competitive sites and services — and more. By integrating this attitudinal information with comScore's database of online behavior, comScore can deliver powerful insight into the drivers of consumer purchasing, helping retailers devise more effective sales and marketing strategies, both online and at retail.

For more information about how comScore Retail Solutions can help deepen your customer knowledge and improve your marketing strategies, please call 312-775-6628 or submit an online information request.