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Industry Insight<br />

About the Author<br />

John Tsioris<br />

Founder & CEO<br />

Mobile grocery shopping is now the next big trend<br />

A 30-year old working mother comes home to a crying<br />

baby, and remembers that she needs to purchase milk.<br />

She quickly whips out her phone and places an order<br />

from the nearest online grocery shop without the hassle<br />

of calling, communication mishaps, and cash<br />

withdrawals.<br />

To connect with this rising smart demographic, brick and<br />

mortar supermarkets cannot simply rely on traditional<br />

industry techniques that were prevalent in the 1990s and<br />

the 2000s. In that period, marketing was done through<br />

conventional techniques of leaflet distributions, and<br />

general word of mouth. But this has shifted slowly but<br />

surely. A reputation of a brand or a supermarket may in<br />

fact be dictated solely based on whether they have an<br />

online presence or not. A trending on-demand app<br />

culture has been taking over the millennial generation. In<br />

2015, online grocery sales in US alone amounted to $7<br />

billion, and is expected to rise to $18 billion by 2020.<br />

Convenience and reliability is the critical factor that<br />

keeps this generation loyal. InstaShop, a UAE based<br />

online grocery delivery app backed by Souq.com, Jabbar<br />

Internet Group, and Venture Friends who partner with<br />

local supermarkets and brands, noticed that those who<br />

have downloaded the apps order at least once per week.<br />

John Tsioris is the Founder and<br />

CEO of InstaShop, the leading on<br />

demand grocery shopping app<br />

in the GCC, operating in the<br />

region since 2015 and having<br />

been nominated for two<br />

consecutive years as one of the<br />

most promising startups in the<br />

Arab world by Forbes. InstaShop<br />

is present in 4 countries &<br />

expanding.<br />

<strong>The</strong> platform allows users to<br />

access their nearby supermarket<br />

directly through their mobile app<br />

and shop for groceries with<br />

delivery straight to their door in<br />

30 to 60 minutes depending on<br />

location. in 2016, Souq.com<br />

invested In Instashop.<br />

Limited push notifications on phones with regular<br />

discounts has been quite successful in increasing grocery<br />

purchase. However, too much of that, and the user may<br />

uninstall the app.<br />

At the end, brick-and-mortar groceries and supermarkets<br />

need to build a new content strategy and partner with<br />

online delivery shopping applications that will help to<br />

transition to this new era of digital delivery options to<br />

ensure existing demographics are not missed out on.<br />

MM <strong>2018</strong>| December <strong>2018</strong>| 29

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