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Ecommerce Brasil 2014 eMerchandising
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Latest trends in E-Merchandising
Usability and Information Architecture
on large e-commerce catalogs
12 Augusto 2014
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Gaëtan Belbéoc’h
Over 12 years on e-Commerce & Web
@ France
@ China (6 years)
@Brazil (since 2013)
Laredoute.fr France no1 in e-commerce of Apparel
L’Oreal world’s no1 in Cosmetics
Adeo Group & Leroymerlin world no3 in DIY
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About Leroy merlin
Constrution
DIY
Decoração
Gardening
16 years in Brasil
7.200 colaborators
32 stores
2 CD e 2 Platforms
mission: “Helping people improve their living environment
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Our main challenges
Cross Channel approach / sharing the same resources with
the rest of the company
100 K products and 1000 complex categories
1. Few product experts available
2. 25% product renovation / year
3. A very « low-tech » supplier base
4. Hard to get data and low quality pictures
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Capture knowledge and experience fromexperts
with the maximum efficiency
through automated rules, easy to operate by anyone
Less fully automatic
« big data » intelligence
More semi automatic
human-created algorithms
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A short history
V1
01/ 2013 May Nov May 2014
V2
Soon
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Our sucesses 2013-2014
X 3 - 60 000 products in 1 year
largest online catalog in Brazil home segment
70% of product range « cleaned » in 1,5 year
Catalog offering
Usability Online customer satisfaction > 8.5 / 10 for 1 year
One of the first responsive website in Brazil
Scored no 1 on 15 out of 16 items on survey
« revista REVENDA » june 2014 (2000 participants)
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Our sucesses 2013-2014
x 5 in 1,5 year
healthy organic growth : Bounce rate 20%
number one in home centers & decoration pure
players in Brazil (Alexa)
from6th to 2nd position worldwide in group Adeo
Traffic
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then itgrew Largest carrefour 25500 m2 (1972)
Over 200 000 sku
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Clients: struggling to choose between similar products
Retailers: « Is such a huge choice really profitable ?
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Carrefour downsized his largest stores by 6000 sqm
to improve profitability
Lefigaro.fr 11/2008
Tesco finds its mega stores are a waste of space
[reduce size by selling to restaurants, gyms…]
the Guardian august 2013
Walmart US accelerates small store growth
news.walmart.com2/2014
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Study on a leading grocery retailer
2010
25% of its stocked items accounted for almost
100% of its profits
(On a set of core categories)
By
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This is the origin of Merchandising
How do I
maximize profitability per square meter?
planning involved in marketing the
right product at the right
place, at the right time, in the
right quantities, and at the right price.
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D- Multi – trees arborescences
…develop multiple ways to access products and content:
By style
For professionals
By projects
By brands…
Landing pages for SEO
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1st level:
By room
2nd level:
By style
First test: navigation by style « inspire-se »
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Results:
Very positive effect on mobile traffic ( + 60% )
Better use of available sreen = Better usability !
Our learnings:
Optimize image size for mobile
Standardise all your interfaces ( pattern labs )
Test on real machines too ( touch screen )
Booze and Co 2010:
“Retailers know they need to do a better job of “curating” the assortment,
assuming the roles of selector and chief buyer on behalf of consumers.”
hybrid retailers (physical goods from digital shelves).
cannot afford the space to stock the low-selling items beyond some point in the long tail
En lisant cette étude je me suis demandé comment définir cette limite
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.1655v2.pdf
In such markets, peer-to-peer influence is acrucial factor in consumer choice
The basic behavioural choice rule followed by consumers is based upon the well-known model
of preferential attachment