CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IRI®, the global leader in innovative solutions and services for consumer, retail and media companies, today announced it is expanding its E-Commerce Solutions Suite with the addition of the IRI E-POS Measurement Solution, which will offer clients a granular look into categories, brands, individual items (UPC level) and weekly level data on e-commerce purchases based on actual point-of-sale data from individual retailers at scale for the first time. In doing so, IRI has created a diagnostic tool that aligns the reporting of online sales with methods already in place for brick-and-mortar stores, leveraging the largest available collection of online sales data in the marketplace.
IRI E-POS Measurement Solution will provide aggregate online POS data from a group of large grocery, drug, mass merchandise and club store retailers as well as leading online pure play retailers.
“A deep understanding of e-commerce and the factors influencing online purchase behavior is critical to understanding sales performance and consumer habits broadly,” said Robert I. Tomei, president of Consumer and Shopper Marketing and Core Content and Insight Services for IRI. “As part of our complete E-Commerce Solutions Suite, IRI will now be able to leverage actual POS data to provide marketers with a diagnostic tool that compares online and offline purchasing trends, offering a comprehensive look at what’s happening overall in the marketplace.”
IRI’s E-Commerce Solutions Suite includes the proprietary measurement, tracking and segmentation platforms E-Market Insights (a shopper database of more than 9 million households), Omnichannel Shopper Behavior Insights and Digital Path-to-Purchase.
IRI E-POS Measurement Solution will be available for release to clients in October 2017 and will be fully integrated into the IRI Liquid Data® platform.
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