Retailer Marketing Communications in the Digital Age: Getting the Right Message to the Right Shopper at the Right Time

Daniel Villanova, Anand V. Bodapati, Nancy Puccinelli, Michael Tsiros, Ronald Goodstein, Tarun Kushwaha, Rajneesh Suri, Henry Ho, Renee Brandon, Cheryl Hatfield

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Abstract

The evolving retail landscape in the digital age has resulted in opportunities and novel capabilities for retailers. This paper identifies four key challenges facing retailers based on insights from practitioners and academics using the customer journey framework as a guide. It then considers evidence from both practice and theory on how contemporary retailers might best innovate in the face of these challenges, to get “the right message to the right shopper at the right time.” Historically, retail was largely constrained to focus on individual touchpoints as manufacturers drove the majority of communication decisions. More recently, with the ability of e-commerce to capture the shopper decision journey more comprehensively, retailers are better able to understand what the right message would be as well as where, when, and how to deliver it to reach the most responsive shoppers to achieve the retailer's strategic objectives in each phase of the journey.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)116-132
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Retailing
Volume97
Issue number1
Early online date17 Feb 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Customer targeting
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communication
  • Retail

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Marketing

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