Insight Convenience Store Strategy - Retail Visits
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Insight has built a global reputation for developing international best practice store visit programmes which help retailers and suppliers make connections and find new ideas to innovate in their businesses.
We work with clients to identify their specific requirements, creating programmes of retail, distribution centre, or factory visits in single, or often multiple international markets. We regularly manage and run these tailored store visits for UK and international clients globally. We are as “at home” in New York, Sydney and Dublin as we are in Capetown or London.
In almost all cases these visits are hosted by senior retailers. Insight's policy is to arrange these visits as official exchanges and consequently (in partnership with NACS) we have developed significant international connections and goodwill in conducting this specialised activity.
Over the past 2 years Insight have organised and managed tailored retail visit programmes for companies and organisations like Sheetz, QuikTrip, ENEX, Tesco, NACS, AACS, ACS, NATSO, Reitan, Topaz, Pick n Pay, OXXO, Albert Heijn, 7 Eleven Australia, Statoil, Engen and SPAR UK.
Retailers and suppliers find this activity very valuable and typically return home with immediately implementable ideas.
" Excellent. Best visits as ever were with local management - insightful. "
(Head of Convenience Formats, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, UK)
" Access to store management & level of information shared was excellent. Also availability to take pictures at retailers was great! All was good! "
(Senior Vice President, Marketing & Chief Marketing Officer, Wawa, USA)
" All hosted stores visited were well done. Great information was given and shared. Favourite was “Little Waitrose”- I really like the freshness and quality perception. "
(Director of Food & Beverage Innovation, RaceTrac Petroleum, USA)
" Thank you for a terrific job of organising these visits. All of the managers/owners were most helpful, cordial and interesting. These two days were a great collection of Ireland's best food retailers "
(Executive Vice President, Sheetz, USA)
" I did find the study tour very rewarding last week, the stores were very stimulating, eye opening and quite creative with their design and concepts. It has given me and my colleagues many ideas for our future plans "
(Director, Company Owned Stores, SPAR UK)
" Fantastic "
(General Manager for Convenience, Pick n Pay, South Africa)
" Great day.The store tour booklet and info made the trip worthwhile. And the access you get with open and honest discussions from the stores is the reason to go on an Insight tour. "
(Director of Foodservice, Petro-Canada)
" This chance to visit so many outlets, meeting the staff and allowing us to take pictures is very limited in this world. Learnt a lot and.will apply in our business, especially in food to go "
(Business Manager for Convenience Stores, Matrah Cold Stores LLC, Oman)
Take a look at one of the retail visits you should make in 2012 - UK major grocer Morrison's highly innovative M local convenience store: