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Shoppers' behavior has changed, Mr. Reiss said.
WHY do retailers want to gather data about in-store shoppers' behavior and moods?
Though prices for food and clothing are also increasing, gas prices are having the most direct effect on shoppers' behavior, retail analysts say.
"What the current music outlets have in common is that they are all common," said Candace Corlett, principal at WSL Strategic Retail in New York, which studies shoppers' behavior and experiences.
"The customer walks in the door, and often sees a huge selection of stuff in a multibrand store, and can't figure out what to buy and ends up buying nothing," said Paco Underhill, founder and chief executive of Envirosell, a Manhattan-based company that advises stores on shoppers' behavior.
Nordstrom's experiment is part of a movement by retailers to gather data about in-store shoppers' behavior and moods, using video surveillance and signals from their cellphones and apps to learn information as varied as their sex, how many minutes they spend in the candy aisle and how long they look at merchandise before buying it.
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Hoping to improve razor-thin profit margins, they are creating specific offers and prices, based on shoppers' behaviors, that could encourage them to spend more: a bigger box of Tide and bologna if the retailer's data suggests a shopper has a large family, for example (and expensive bologna if the data indicates the shopper is not greatly price-conscious).
This generates an amazingly rich data set of shoppers' behaviors, without identifying shoppers' personal information and without disrupting shoppers' actions.
Online shoppers' behaviors, such as clicks, price comparisons, and search records, all those can be captured by the Web.
You can't really define a brand as the sum of your shoppers' behaviors, especially not when you're talking about such tactical things as whether your customers are review-driven, for example, or image-driven, or something else.
They're already working with University College London to analyze shoppers' behaviors through facial recognition, and recording the data to find out whether people enjoy the enhanced experience or not.
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