Greggs and Data HQ
Gained a true understanding of their customers buying behaviours and motivations
Background
With data sources in numerous locations, Greggs were looking for a single customer view (SCV) database that allowed complete visibility of their Greggs Rewards customers. The business understood if they overcome this challenge they would open up the potential for a whole new plethora of business and customer insights which, in turn, would drive new operational, product development and marketing opportunities.
A key business deliverable, as part of this project, was to use the Greggs Rewards App to launch a new ‘real-time’ customer satisfaction program transforming the way the business obtained valuable customer feedback.
After several months of due diligence, Greggs identified that Apteco was the software solution they needed to help resolve their data insight challenges. Using Apteco's practical directory tools they were able to find their perfect partner. Greggs approached Data HQ with a specific requirement - they wanted an Apteco marketing software expert who could help them get closer to their customers.
Millions of customers pass through Greggs stores each week and the key source of customer data was captured via the Greggs Rewards Program – a handy mobile phone app which is used in-store with every transaction.
Without doubt, through implementing the full suite of Apteco marketing tools, Greggs have achieved their objective of getting closer to their rewards customers, revolutionising Greggs' marketing activity.
The Apteco solution
Given Greggs’ objectives and requirements, Data HQ proposed a solution that utilised all the key tools within the Apteco software including Apteco FastStats®, FastStats Geo™ and Apteco PeopleStage™.
The fundamental deliverable underpinning this project was the development of a live Single Customer View (SCV) that had the capacity to incorporate hundreds of thousands of customer and transactional files per hour into a single database. Near real-time, customer data, updated within minutes of a transaction being made in-store would allow Greggs instant access to their customer data.
Providing the SCV to analysts and marketeers at Greggs through the powerful and intuitive front end delivered by FastStats, has, for the first time, allowed the team to gain a true understanding of their customers behaviours and motivations. Historically, the only sales information available was at an individual item or basket level, but now customers can be understood in terms of their frequency of visit, the times of day they are purchasing, and the combination of items they consume throughout a day, week, etc.
Over 1 million communications using Apteco PeopleStage™ were distributed, made up of mostly push messages and emails - approximately 10k to 50k communications per day depending on new sign-ups and expiring rewards.
Providing the SCV to analysts and marketeers at Greggs through the powerful and intuitive front end delivered by Apteco FastStats, has, for the first time, allowed the team to gain a true understanding of their customers behaviours and motivations.
The impact on the business
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The new solution tracks the value of the Greggs customer and how this evolves overtime; how these changes correlate to business initiatives/marketing activity or external factors such as competitor activity/economy etc.
Apteco FastStats® data provides a view of whether product category growth is from multiple customers or whether it is an increase in frequency of purchase from the same customers, which helps to identify opportunities for growth.
Greggs use Apteco FastStats® to understand what typology is buying which products, so they know what to protect, what to grow and where there are gaps in the range. The business is now able to look at product affinity and to understand product dependency.
Historically Greggs used insights to report on product switching. When there was growth in one area and decline in another it was assumed that customers were switching products. Apteco FastStats® enabled Greggs to test these theories.
In the past, Greggs relied on the costly process of ‘mystery shopping’ to monitor customer satisfaction. With the new solution the business has instant access to customer feedback without the need for human intervention. Within 30 minutes of purchase customers are sent a survey via their mobile app to request feedback. Customers are targeted every 7th purchase and no more than once every 6 weeks. Greggs received 11,206 fully completed responses – 12% response rate.
Live data was used to allocate a unique promotion code when a customer made a purchase and an email was triggered to the customer in near real time, negating the need of a painful customer redemption process. This resulted in almost double the amount of product purchases based on the previous 2 months.
The impact of Apteco software for Greggs is the complete transparency around the customer journey. The new solution tracks the value of the Greggs customer and how this evolves over time.