Monitor Store Traffic - With your Carts

What if your carts could tell you how long someone shopped? At Bemis, we are frequently asked what the appropriate cart size mixture should be for a store: With our CartTrac solution, you can tailor your fleet to exactly match what your customers prefer to shop with. The picture below is a report screenshot from a Bemis CartTrac test site. Not only does this tell you how long someone shopped – you can see what size of cart they chose to shop with. At this store, customers actually spent more time shopping with a smaller sized cart than they did with a large one. 

Pre-COVID, many stores were shifting towards more food service and inside-the-store dining options. Stores that featured multiple points of sale like this don’t capture the total customer value by focusing on the basket size at checkout: What if they bought a coffee? Juice? Maybe a slice of pizza while they shopped? The more time they spend in the store, the more they are exposed too these options – sales that don’t show up at the register.

We’ll eventually return to some semblance of in-store dining nationwide but until we get there, shopping time in your stores during COVID is important for a whole different reason: We want to reduce loitering and browsing and make sure customers are getting in and out quickly. Our CartTrac solution can help with this as well.
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The dashboard of the tracking software can show you an active number of carts inside a store and a median time for how long they’ve been in there. You can even take this a step further and setup indoor zones for certain areas of your store to get a detailed picture of the customer journey inside your store. Stay tuned for our next blog article that will feature some results from one of our customer journey tracking sites.

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