A new report has revealed that 11 percent of US shoppers regularly purchase some grocery products online, with online grocery shopping forecast to rise to 17 percent of total grocery shopping within the next decade – driven by affluent and young shoppers who account for one fifth of all US grocery consumers.
The Brick Meets Click 2013 Grocery Report “Six Degrees of Digital Connections” reports that with today’s shoppers living in an omnichannel world, grocers need to think differently about how to reach their customers in order to maintain competitive advantage.
The analysis, based on the digital shopping habits of more than 22,000 grocery shoppers, reveals that 11% of US shoppers regularly buy some grocery products online, with this figure predicted to rise to 17% of total grocery spending by 2023. The report predicts that if these forecasts prove even close to accurate, the shopper’s shift of spending to online will have a disruptive effect on current retail competition.
Driving the growth in online grocery shopping are wealthy shoppers and young Internet users labelled “millennials”, who account for one fifth of all American grocery consumers and who are the two most likely groups to shop online. The affluent shopper is looking for niche items they can get quickly, whilst the young have grown up with doing everything on the Internet and want the speed and convenience that online retail delivers.
These latest forecasts for US online grocery shopping support the predicted doubling of online grocery sales in key European markets as the pisions between online and bricks and mortar retailers continue to blur – and why grocers need to adapt their strategies in order to attract today’s omnichannel shopper.
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