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Virtual Merchandising - A New Reality for Market Research

May 31

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM

Description

The optimization of product placement and assortment in-store and on-shelf helps maximize sales and reduce costs. Using mobile VR with embedded eye-tracking, Accenture teamed with Qualcomm and Kellogg’s to reinvent how brands and retailers gather consumer data and perform research —more rapidly and affordably at larger scale. Kellogg’s was launching Pop Tarts Bites and needed market data to determine placement, assortment and promotion. Using Qualcomm’s reference headset powered by the Snapdragon 845 with embedded eye-tracking, and software from InContext Solutions and Cognitive3D, Accenture Extended Reality (XR) developed a pilot VR solution that immersed consumers in a full-scale, simulated store, enabling them to move through the space, shop, pick up products and place them in carts--all while tracking what consumers were looking at, for how long and why. The pilot proved the high degree of correlation between the VR test results and those of traditional testing methods. More importantly, eye-tracking provided deeper behavioral data that led to a different merchandising conclusion—to place Pop Tarts Bites on a lower shelf, increasing total brand sales by 18 percent during testing

Speakers

Head of Brands , Epic Games - Unreal Engine
Sr. Director Business Development , Qualcomm

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