To boost its in-store buying expertise, grocery chain Kroger partnered with tech firm Cooler Screens to deliver digital good screens to 500 of its shops throughout the U.S.
These screens will substitute conventional fridge and freezer doorways in supported shops. The screens will place a digital overlay in entrance of the bodily merchandise, offering consumers with data associated to totally different diets, well being wants, budgets, and extra. The screens may even present contextual advertisements.
This launch follows a three-year pilot with Cooler Screens, designed to enhance the shopper’s in-store expertise with interactive media and digital merchandising.
“We’re enthusiastic about this continued collaboration because it extends our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for retail media, providing manufacturers one other highly effective advertising and marketing lever inside the shop,” mentioned Cara Pratt, svp at Kroger Precision Advertising and marketing.
Cooler Screens mentioned its promoting platform reaches greater than 90 million month-to-month viewers throughout a number of retailers nationwide. The platform is projected to succeed in greater than 200 million month-to-month viewers in early 2024.
“We’re humbled to develop our strategic alignment with Kroger, which is a pioneer in retail media and second-to-none in the usage of shopper insights,” mentioned Arsen Avakian, founder and CEO of Coolor Screens. “And like Kroger, we use shopper insights to create a triple win for shoppers, manufacturers and the retailer.”
