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isr/merchandising<br />

gdo/merchandising<br />

longer is it a mere container for merchandise but,<br />

rather, a narrative display of items. «In effect, ours is an<br />

age – noted Maria Angela Polesana of Brand Lab and<br />

Business Communications at Milan’s Iulm University –<br />

that has seen the retail outlet transformed from point of<br />

purchase into point of pleasure. In other words, it has<br />

become a place that sharpens our awareness and elicits<br />

emotional responses through a multi-sensory experience<br />

encountered in meeting point, that is, a place<br />

stimulating emotional and relational responses.<br />

Colours, smells, music and touch are the grammar of a<br />

narrative stream the retail outlet develops through a<br />

kind of story line that consumers themselves contribute<br />

to by reimagining the outlet through their felt<br />

perceptions. Indeed, the new consumer no longer asks<br />

“What can I buy that I haven’t got yet”, but “What can<br />

I experience that I haven’t tried yet”».<br />

This experiencing of the retail outlet cuts across all merchandise<br />

categories and represents one of the new fields<br />

of marketing research. Even the F&V floor is changing<br />

look in reaching out to the new consumer, or in<br />

Polesana’s better definition consumActor: «In comparing<br />

products whose performance and flavour characteristics<br />

are increasingly similar, what makes the difference are<br />

the intangibles, the symbolic realm of things. Indeed, our<br />

very first act of buying is like completing an apprenticeship<br />

in today’s consumer society and, while we can then<br />

boast a certain expertise in discerning between the various<br />

items on sale, it is the technological revolution above<br />

all that has provided an ever increasing amount of such<br />

that we keep becoming ever more demanding».<br />

The need to be reassured<br />

The produce industry has of late been marked by two<br />

Wholefood’s model<br />

<strong>Il</strong> modello Wholefood’s<br />

60 <strong>Fresh</strong> <strong>Point</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> n.11 – november/novembre 2011<br />

Whole Foods Market is a pleasurable place even when the<br />

shopping is done.<br />

<strong>Il</strong> Whole Foods Market è uno spazio piacevole anche dopo aver fatto<br />

la spesa.<br />

delle nuove branche di ricerca del marketing. Anche il<br />

reparto ortofrutticolo sta quindi cambiando volto per<br />

raggiungere un nuovo consumatore, meglio definito da<br />

Polesana consumAttore: «A fronte di prodotti sempre<br />

più simili quanto a performances e caratteristiche<br />

organolettiche sono le dimensioni intangibili, simboliche<br />

a fare la differenza. Chi acquista, infatti, ha compiuto<br />

ormai il suo apprendistato nel mondo dei consumi<br />

e può quindi vantare una certa competenza nel<br />

muoversi tra le varie offerte, ma è soprattutto la rivoluzione<br />

tecnologica che lo ha fornito di un numero sempre<br />

crescente d’informazioni tali da renderlo più esigente,<br />

selettivo, demanding».<br />

Bisogno di rassicurazione<br />

Negli ultimi anni il settore ortofrutticolo è stato caratteriz-<br />

Following the hypermarket boom in the 1990s, when big retail focused only on increasing the number of items displayed over<br />

vast floor spaces in whose aisles consumers wandered as if in a kind of food city guided merely by indications as to product<br />

type posted in the various departments, today the big chains are looking more closely at creating a shopping ambience with a<br />

more pronounced welcome mat.<br />

US-based Wholefood’s offers a good case in point regarding the nature of the new kind of shopping experience, according to<br />

Maria Angela Polesana of Milan’s Iulm University. «It’s a concept that’s clearly the part of the mission regarding company social<br />

responsibility and its pronounced effort in education and relations in which the focus is squarely on the consumer as pro-active<br />

partner and not a passive receptor». (DV)<br />

Dopo il boom degli ipermercati, negli anni Novanta, dove si puntava solo al numero delle referenze esposte su immense superfici,<br />

nelle quali il consumatore si muoveva tra le corsie come in una sorta di città del food guidato dalle indicazioni delle tipologie di prodotti<br />

che si trovavano nei vari reparti, oggi la moderna distribuzione guarda con maggiore attenzione alla creazione di un ambiente di<br />

acquisto più accogliente.<br />

L’americana Wholefood’s offre un buon esempio di concretizzazione dell’esperienzialità nel punto vendita afferma Maria Angela<br />

Polesana dell’Università Iulm di Milano: «Un concetto chiaramente espresso nella mission, all’insegna proprio della responsabilità<br />

sociale e della funzione educativa e di relazione spinta rispetto al consumatore posto al centro dell’attenzione: interlocutore attivo e<br />

non passivo recettore». (JP)

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