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Strategy Briefing

The Problem of Impulse & E-commerce in Soft Drinks

20 pages, Apr 2018

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While the growth of grocery internet retailing is a major long-term opportunity for soft drinks, it is not without serious challenges in terms of driving (or simply sustaining) impulse beverage occasions. This spotlight report explores how manufacturers of major beverage brands can begin to think about the future of impulse beverages, as physical grocery shopping trips migrate online and omnichannel shopping habits grow.

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impulse beverage purchases go online.

Online beverages sales re low outside of South Korea and a few sophisticated digital retail environments. As part of the weekly shop, beverage sales growth is strong but sustaining the growth of high-margin chilled, immediate-consumption drinks sold in-store will be difficult.

Direct, brand-driven experience is key

The biggest soft drinks brands are accomplished CPG marketers, with a sophisticated, cross-channel presence on social and corporate media channels to sustain consumers awareness online. However, direct-to-consumer marketing from controlled platforms can add a further dimension. Closer partnership with pure-play and hybrid grocery e-commerce partners can reduce product availability lag-times and maximize the exposure of the impulse “aisle” online.

Pure-play and ecommerce platforms can drive "moments" for consumer impulse in the shopping. Targeted advertising, created "impulse" offers during checkout, as well as frictionless automated opportunities at online order collection points or smart lockers, can all drive growth.

Maximising strategies in omni-channel grocery is the top priority.

The unrelenting declining number of physical grocery trips drives development of new impulse occasions. There are many potential away-from-home impulse opportunities to be exploited by brand driven campaigns.

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E-Commerce Growth and the Problem of Impulse

Key findings

Beverages e-commerce reflects wider development of internet retailing

Is the growth of grocery retailing online a net positive for the industry?

Distinguishing between planned grocery and impulse beverages

Why this matters: immediate consumption drives profitability and trial

But physical grocery shopping trips are at risk of long-term decline

Impulse has a greater challenge than take-home as omnichannel grows

1/3: the unit volume of US soft drinks not sold in multipacks

Impulse matters to brands, retailers and consumers

Three approaches for sustaining impulse as consumers shop online

Option 1: pure-play/direct-to-consumer engagement

Example: Coca-Cola Store (Brazil)

Option 2: building impulse moments into partner e-commerce routine

Example: PepsiCo and Lotte Group (South Korea)

1/3: the percentage of 25-29 year olds grocery shopping regularly online

Option 3: generating new impulse occasions outside of grocery retail

The possible alternative channels for impulse beverage occasions…

Hypothetical: building a beverage presence in shared/short-term rentals?

Bottom line: waiting and impulse don’t mix

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Overview

Why buy this report?

impulse beverage purchases go online.

Direct, brand-driven experience is key

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Table of Contents

E-Commerce Growth and the Problem of Impulse

Key findings

Beverages e-commerce reflects wider development of internet retailing

Is the growth of grocery retailing online a net positive for the industry?

Distinguishing between planned grocery and impulse beverages

Why this matters: immediate consumption drives profitability and trial

But physical grocery shopping trips are at risk of long-term decline

Impulse has a greater challenge than take-home as omnichannel grows

1/3: the unit volume of US soft drinks not sold in multipacks

Impulse matters to brands, retailers and consumers

Three approaches for sustaining impulse as consumers shop online

Option 1: pure-play/direct-to-consumer engagement

Example: Coca-Cola Store (Brazil)

Option 2: building impulse moments into partner e-commerce routine

Example: PepsiCo and Lotte Group (South Korea)

1/3: the percentage of 25-29 year olds grocery shopping regularly online

Option 3: generating new impulse occasions outside of grocery retail

The possible alternative channels for impulse beverage occasions…

Hypothetical: building a beverage presence in shared/short-term rentals?

Bottom line: waiting and impulse don’t mix

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Overview

Why buy this report?

impulse beverage purchases go online.

Direct, brand-driven experience is key

Want to find out more about this report?

Table of Contents

E-Commerce Growth and the Problem of Impulse

Key findings

Beverages e-commerce reflects wider development of internet retailing

Is the growth of grocery retailing online a net positive for the industry?

Distinguishing between planned grocery and impulse beverages

Why this matters: immediate consumption drives profitability and trial

But physical grocery shopping trips are at risk of long-term decline

Impulse has a greater challenge than take-home as omnichannel grows

1/3: the unit volume of US soft drinks not sold in multipacks

Impulse matters to brands, retailers and consumers

Three approaches for sustaining impulse as consumers shop online

Option 1: pure-play/direct-to-consumer engagement

Example: Coca-Cola Store (Brazil)

Option 2: building impulse moments into partner e-commerce routine

Example: PepsiCo and Lotte Group (South Korea)

1/3: the percentage of 25-29 year olds grocery shopping regularly online

Option 3: generating new impulse occasions outside of grocery retail

The possible alternative channels for impulse beverage occasions…

Hypothetical: building a beverage presence in shared/short-term rentals?

Bottom line: waiting and impulse don’t mix

Why buy this report?

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