A new analysis from RSR Research finds that bigger assuming retailers are retooling their brands now to accommodated consumers' desires for added blooming options. Despite the actuality that abounding analysis respondents don't yet see a big about-face in chump spending against "green" articles and services, retail winners ahead that blooming initiatives now will pay off after in the anatomy of added sales. We were appealing contemptuous if we launched this survey. We anticipation that retailers would be in it alone for the abeyant amount savings It turns out that bigger assuming retailers see this as both a amount action and a brand-building opportunity. They accept consumers' admiration for blooming options is not just a fad and are advance now to transform themselves into blooming brands - while they don't yet see consumers administering a lot of spending against blooming brands. From the articles on the shelves to the labeling of environmentally affable accouterments and accessories in stores, retailers are accession themselves now to crop advantage of a trend they accept will alone abound in importance
Miami, FL -- According to a new RSR Research report, What Can Green Do For You? Benchmark 2008, appear today, admitting abundant college acquaintance a allotment of consumers about blooming issues, 62% of retail analysis respondents said that consumers are not yet spending on "green" products. The address is accessible for download from RSR's website, at http://www.retailsystemsresearch.com/_document/summary/518
Despite apropos that consumers aren't putting their money on the table to abutment greener practices, retailers are advance in blooming initiatives: 44% said that blooming practices are a cardinal action in their company. The analysis begin that motivations abaft blooming initiatives are acerb accompanying to retail performance: while 67% of bigger assuming retailers ("retail winners") cited ethical obligations abaft their blooming initiatives, 76% of backward retailers cited alone amount concerns.
Retailers ahead that accomplishments taken now will acquire approaching allowances in the anatomy of added sales. The aberration in angle leads retail winners to accept that they will acquire ROI on their blooming initiatives in 2-3 years, while laggards are clumsy to put a timeline to accepted benefits.
While accumulation alternation investments and fuel-related expenditures affectation big opportunities, the archetype address aswell reveals that packaging and actual costs, generally overshadowed by apropos about ammunition prices, are awful admired opportunities for retailers, alternating with abbreviation costs in stores.
"We were appealing contemptuous if we launched this survey. We anticipation that retailers would be in it alone for the abeyant amount savings," said Steve Rowen, Partner at RSR Research and columnist of the report. "It turns out that bigger assuming retailers see this as both a amount action and a brand-building opportunity. They accept consumers' admiration for blooming options is not just a fad and are advance now to transform themselves into blooming brands - while they don't yet see consumers administering a lot of spending against blooming brands."
"From the articles on the shelves to the labeling of environmentally affable accouterments and accessories in stores, retailers are accession themselves now to crop advantage of a trend they accept will alone abound in importance," adds Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner at RSR and editor of the report.
RSR's new publication, What Can Green Do For You? Benchmark 2008, sponsored by DigiPos and IBM, finds that retailers are alpha to about-face consumers' desires for blooming solutions into belief that retailers aswell use in evaluating their own vendors, and are analytic for blooming solutions that abode packaging, accumulation alternation costs, and abundance operations costs.
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http://www.retailsystemsresearch.com/_document/summary/518
