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From brand idea to basket behaviour

The Strat Shop helps brands connect brand thinking to shopper behaviour and retail reality. Helping turn brand ambition into work that drives action at the point of purchase.

WHAT WE DO

Strategic support for shopper, retail and channel work

We help brands, agencies and growing businesses bring specialist shopper and retail thinking to strategy, campaigns, toolkits and channel work.

For Brands

Helping teams sharpen shopper thinking across campaigns, retail strategy and execution.

Campaign and brand shopper strategy​

Toolkit and workshop development

Retail and trade presence strategy

Ongoing strategic support

For Agencies

Specialist retail and shopper expertise to strengthen strategy, planning and delivery.

Shopper and retail strategy

Plug-in strategic support

Channel and communications planning

Integrated and experiential input

For Growing Businesses

Practical strategic support to improve retail presence, clarity and performance.

Retail and competitor analysis

Shopper and brand strategy

Framework and proposition development

Channel optimisation

WHAT WE DO

Strategic support from brand to basket

We help brands and agencies (small and large) connect the dots between brand strategy, campaign ideas, shopper behaviour and retail execution. Creating efficacy from the big idea to the buying moment.

Path to purchase audits

Analyse how your brand and products show up in the consumer journey. Discover opportunities for growth in-store and online.

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Shopper marketing strategy

Maximise your impact at shelf with creative and commercially minded strategy.

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Shopper marketing support

Empower your teams with on hand shopper marketing expertise, support and advice.

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Campaign to retail translation

We help brand and creative ideas travel into shopper, retail media, channel toolkits and activation without becoming generic, disconnected or purely promotional.

Brand to basket audits & recommendations

Analyse how your brand and products show up in the shopper journey. Discover opportunities for growth in-store and online.

Shopper marketing strategy & execution

Maximise your impact at shelf with creative and commercially minded strategy and execution.

Shopper marketing advisory & support

Empower your teams with on hand shopper marketing expertise, support and advice.

WHAT WE DO

Strategic support for shopper, retail and channel work

We help brands, agencies and growing businesses bring specialist shopper and retail thinking to strategy, campaigns, toolkits and channel work.

Path to purchase audits

Analyse how your brand and products show up in the consumer journey. Discover opportunities for growth in-store and online.

Learn more

Shopper marketing strategies for growth

Maximise your impact at shelf with creative and commercially minded strategy.

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On-call shopper marketing support

Empower your teams with on hand shopper marketing expertise, support and advice.

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HOW WE DO IT

Connecting brand ambition to shopper action

We look at the full commercial journey: what the brand is trying to build, what shoppers are trying to do, and what retailers are looking to achieve. Then we shape the strategy that connects it all.

01 / UNDERSTAND

Dissecting brand, shopper and retailer realities

We look at the brands aims and ambitions. We analyse how shoppers think, compare, decide and navigate. We interpret and understand what retailers are focused on achieving through brand partnerships.

02 / IDENTIFY

Identifying key barriers & growth opportunities

We identify what is blocking conversion and where clearer strategy, communication or experience can unlock growth.

03 / SHARPEN

Define the shopper strategy

We define the shopper task, the behavioural opportunity and the role of each touchpoint, so the work is not just on brand, but relevant, distinctive and commercially effective.

04 / OPTIMISE

Translation into retail reality

We shape how the idea should show up across channels, touchpoints, toolkits and activation, adapting to the context without losing the brand.

WHERE WE SPECIALISE

One brand idea, many shopper realities

Shoppers do not experience brand, media, retail and activation as separate worlds. They move between memory, search, shelf, content, online and physical retail (often quickly, messily and with different needs in each moment). We help brands understand how the idea should flex across those realities, while staying connected to the bigger brand strategy.

Super & hypermarkets

Convenience

Third spaces

E-commerce  

Retailer e-commerce

DTC 

Social commerce

Retail media 

Super & hypermarkets · Convenience · Third spaces · E-commerce · Retailer e-commerce · DTC · Social commerce · Retail media 

Wherever the brand is

We look at the environments where the brand meets the shopper wherever that might be, from online & social to store and third spaces.

Whatever shoppers need

We focus on what shoppers are trying to do in the moment: discover, compare, navigate, justify, choose or convert.

How the idea should land

We shape the role of each touchpoint so the brand idea becomes shopper relevant, channel ready and effective.

WHERE WE SPECIALISE

Clarity across store, screen

Shoppers do not experience brands in neat channels. They move between physical and digital environments, forming opinions, comparing options and making decisions along the way. We help brands understand where choice is shaped — and where strategy, communication and activation can work harder.

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In-store

Bring clarity to the physical retail environment — from category layout and shopper navigation to shelf communication, point-of-sale and conversion barriers.

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Online

Improve how brands show up across ecommerce and digital retail — from search, content and comparison to retail media, digital shelf performance and conversion.

Need to connect brand, shopper and retail?

Bring us in when the brand idea needs to work harder in the world of retail.

We help connect campaign thinking, shopper behaviour and channel execution. So the work stays strategically coherent all the way to the point of purchase.

How can we help?

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In proximity

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In the store

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At the shelf

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Post purchase

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Path to purchase audits

Analyse how your brand and products show up in the consumer journey. Discover opportunities for growth in-store and online.

Learn more

Shopper marketing strategy

Maximise your impact at shelf with creative and commercially minded strategy.

Learn more

Shopper marketing support

Empower your teams with on hand shopper marketing expertise, support and advice.

Learn more

HOW WE DO IT

Clear thinking, properly structured

Our role is not just to provide answers, but to bring clarity, structure and specialist thinking to complex shopper and retail challenges. We focus on making problems easier to understand, decisions easier to make, and work easier to deliver.

Clarity first

We focus on making problems simple enough to understand, while protecting the complexity that matters.

Structured thinking

We bring clear frameworks, defined outputs and well‑grounded recommendations.

Specialist expertise

Everything is grounded in real shopper and retail experience, so work is credible, usable and easy to apply.

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